Dulce M. Román is Chief Curator and Curator of Modern Art. In this role, she directs the development and management of the Harn’s collection of modern art from the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Since joining the Harn staff in 2001 she has curated more than twenty-five exhibitions and coordinated more than 15 loaned exhibitions. Several of her exhibitions have traveled to other institutions. Painting St. Augustine: Selections from the Samuel H. and Roberta T. Vickers Collection (2022) traveled to The Governor’s House Cultural Center and Museum in St. Augustine and Say It With Snap! Motivating Workers by Design, 1923–1929 (2013) traveled to 5 museums. Monet and American Impressionism (2015) traveled to the Hunter Museum of American Art and Telfair Museums. This exhibition featuring the Harn’s Giverny landscape by Claude Monet, Champ d’avoine (1890), along with works loaned from 28 institutions, was accompanied by a publication and a symposium, “America and France: New Perspectives on Transatlantic Visual Culture.”
Additional highlighted original exhibitions include A Florida Legacy: Gift of Samuel H. and Roberta T. Vickers (2021); Spotlight: Latin America (2016–2017); Souvenirs of Modern Asia: The Prints of Paul Jacoulet (2012), co-curated with Allysa Peyton; America at Work: Art and Propaganda in the Early-20th Century (2010); Paradigms and the Unexpected: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Shey Collection (2008), co-curated with Kerry Oliver-Smith; From Dürer to Renoir: European Prints from the Harn Collection (2007); and Ansel Adams: Visualizing the American Landscape (2004).
Román has contributed essays to numerous Harn Museum collection and exhibition publications. Highlights include “Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at Twenty Years” (2010) and “American Selections from the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art” (2009) which received support from The Henry Luce Foundation. Her service to the University of Florida has included meetings with UF classes and supervision of more than 50 curatorial interns. Her service to the Gainesville community has included jurying many local art exhibitions and service on the board of directors of the Matheson History Museum (2016–2022).
Before joining the Harn staff, Román served as a researcher of Spanish art at the Frick Collection and in the department of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She holds a B.A. in psychology from Harvard University and M.A. and M.Phil. degrees in art history from Columbia University.
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