Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro is an international curator, interested in the relation of art within the Americas. He is Director of the Colleción Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in New York and Caracas. He has been Curator of Latin American art at the Blanton Museum of Art, the University of Texas at Austin; Director of Visual Arts at The Americas Society in New York; and founding curator of the University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art in England. He was also chief curator of the 6th Mercosur Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil.