Gabriel de Guzman

Gabriel de Guzman is Director of Arts & Chief Curator at Wave Hill, where he oversees the visual and performing arts program at the public garden and cultural center in the Bronx. This includes contemporary art exhibitions in Wave Hill’s art galleries and on the grounds, as well as outdoor music, dance performances and indoor concert series. From 2017 to 2021, de Guzman was Curator & Director of Exhibitions at Smack Mellon, where he organized group and solo exhibitions that featured emerging and under-recognized, mid-career artists whose work explores critical, socially relevant issues. Before joining Smack Mellon, de Guzman held a previous position at Wave Hill, as Curator of Visual Arts, organizing solo projects for emerging artists, as well as thematic group exhibitions that explore human connections to the natural world. As a guest curator, he has also presented shows at Site: Brooklyn, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, The Bronx Museum, BronxArtSpace, Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, Rush Arts Gallery, En Foco at Andrew Freedman Home, the Affordable Art Fair New York, and Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance. Prior to Wave Hill, he was a curatorial assistant at The Jewish Museum. His essays have been published in Nueva Luz: Photographic Journal and in catalogues for the Museum of Arts and Design, Taller Puertorriqueño in Philadelphia, the Arsenal Gallery at Central Park, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, and the art institutions mentioned above. He earned an M.A. in art history from Hunter College and a B.A. in art history from the University of Virginia.