Critic and curator Robert Storr, one of the world’s foremost art academics, visits Mexico to present a lecture as part of the public programming for the exhibition Robert Ryman in Museo Jumex.

Robert Storr is an American artist, critic and curator. He received a B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1972 and an M.F.A. from the School of Art Institute of Chicago in 1978. Robert Storr was senior curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where he organized numerous monographic exhibitions on artists such as Robert Ryman, Gerhard Richter and Tony Smith. Mr. Storr has headed and taught academic programs in the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Rhode Island School of Design, Harvard University and Yale, among other institutions. In 2000 the French Ministry of Culture presented him with the medal of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and subsequently awarded him the status of Officier in the same order. From 2005 to 2007 he was Visual Arts Director of the 53 Venice Biennale. As a writer, he is a frequent collaborator at Art in America, Artforum, Art Press, The New York Times and the Washington Post. Among many other distinctions, his work has been awarded the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History of the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art. He has authored more than 250 publications on art.