Mari Carmen Ramírez is a Puerto Rican Art curator and the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She has been a curator for more than 30 years.

She studied Art history at the University of Puerto Rico. Already she would work in museums while being a student, something she would go on to do while completing her graduate work.

She did her graduate studies in Art as well and received both her Master of Arts and Phd at the University of Chicago.

Mari Carmen is a Latin American Art Curator for more than 30 years.

She was curator of Latin American art at the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin (1989–2000) and director of the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico (1985–88).

She worked at the Ponce museum of art before returning to complete her Phd at the University of Chicago. Once returning again to Puerto Rico, she went on to become the Director of the University of Puerto Rico Art Museum - at the time she was the youngest to have been given that position. This experience taught her that she didn't want to be the direct of any museum.

Ramírez has curated numerous exhibitions of Latin American art including Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time (2011); Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood (2009-10); North Looks South: Building the Latin American Collection (2009); Dimensions of Constructive Art in Brazil: The Adolpho Leirner Collection (2007); Hélio Oiticica: The Body of Color (2006-07); Gego: Between Transparency and the Invisible (2005-07); Heterotopías: medio siglo sin lugar: 1918-1968 (with Héctor Olea, 2000); Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin (1999).

In tandem with Héctor Olea, she curated Inverted Utopias: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America (MFAH, 2004) awarded by the International Association of Art Critics as the “Best Thematic Museum Show Nationally” in the USA.

In 1997 Ramírez received the Peter Norton Family Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence.

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