Review Panel

Elena Muñoz-Rodriguez is Assistant Curator, Latinx & Latin American Art at the Newark Museum of Art in Newark, New Jersey. Muñoz-Rodriguez received her Master’s in Art History from Rutgers University. Her research and practice are focused on colonialism, migration, and syncretism in the Caribbean. At NMOA, she has worked on the exhibitions Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision and Saya Woolfalk: Field Notes from the Empathic Universe, as well as reinterpreting the Museum’s newly reopened historical 18th & 19th Century American galleries. Her current projects include the long-term installation “The Spanish Caribbean Body”, and an exhibition and accompanying publication with artist Bony Ramirez (April 2024). Prior to working at NMOA, Muñoz-Rodriguez was the Research & Curatorial Assistant at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum where she worked on Gateways/Portales. She was also the recipient of a Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies Fellowship.

Kenneth Reveiz is a poet, screenwriter, and literary translator from New York City who works in the service of racial and economic justice. Of Colombian heritage, Kenneth is the author of three graphic design collaboration limited edition prints of their poetry, most recently CULTURAL CHANGE IN USA (Queer.Archive.Work, 2021), and has performed and curated in venues and communities across the United States. At the age of 27 they were elected to the Board of Alders, the legislative body for the City of New Haven, and as the Alder for Ward 14 they helped secure the passage of historic legislation to increase police accountability. Kenneth is a graduate of Yale University, where they received Bates, Cornell, Courture, and Yale-O’Neill Fellowships for their research and writing. They received their M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the California Institute of the Arts, where they were awarded a Lillian Disney Scholarship and a Truman Capote Fellowship. Kenneth’s debut poetry collection, MOPES: A Book of Poems in Three Acts, was awarded the Fence Modern Poets Series Prize. It is now available.

Sarah Tortorich is an accomplished art professional working in the fine art industry as the Registrar & Director of Operations at Rachel Uffner Gallery in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She is known for her hands-on and personable approach to organizing installations, exhibitions, and fairs, ensuring that the artists and their work are the focus. Sarah's expertise extends to maintaining comprehensive inventory and archive systems, both physical and digital, which provides decades of knowledge and reference to various groundbreaking exhibitions and important pieces throughout the gallery’s history. Most recently, Sarah has been nominated for Registrar of the Year and has been asked to be a Guest Speaker at Sotheby’s Institute in New York for their master’s course in Collection Management & Logistics. 

Camila Palomino is a curator and researcher from New York City. Her research is invested in aesthetic relationships between urban infrastructures, social memory, and imaging technologies. She is currently Curatorial Assistant at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. Most recently, she was the 2021-2022 Curator in Residence at Abrons Art Center, and the 2022 In Practice Curatorial Fellow at SculptureCenter. She has previously held curatorial positions and contributed research to exhibitions at the 58th Carnegie International, The Drawing Center, MoMA PS1, and The Whitney Museum of American Art. Camila has also been a visiting lecturer in The Photography Program at Bard College. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago and an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.

Alisa Sikelianos-Carter is a mixed-media painter from upstate New York. She has been awarded residencies at Fountainhead Residency,  Millay Arts, NXTHVN, Vermont Studio Center, Wassaic Project, Yaddo, Art Omi, Headlands Center for the Arts, and The Golden Foundation. Select exhibitions include group shows at James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY; the Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; with solo exhibitions at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL, Fridman Gallery, Beacon, NY, and the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (forthcoming October 2023). She earned her MA from SUNY Albany in Studio Art. Sikelianos-Carter asserts that Black features are a manifestation of a sacred and divine technology that has served as a means of survival, both physically and metaphysically. She envisions a cosmically bountiful world that celebrates and pays homage to ancestral majesty, power, and aesthetics. Inspired by traditionally Black hairstyles, Sikelianos-Carter uses web and catalog-sourced images to construct new archetypes. Through her exploration of opulent, luminescent materials she is creating a mythology that is centered on Black resistance and utilizes the body as a site of alchemy and divinity.

Jeffrey Yang is the author of the poetry collections Line and Light; Hey, Marfa (winner of the Southwest Book Award); Vanishing-Line; and An Aquarium (winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award). He is the translator of Bei Dao’s autobiography City Gate, Open Up; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies; Ahmatjan Osman’s Uyghurland, the Farthest Exile; and Su Shi’s East Slope. He is the editor of the poetry anthologies Birds, Beasts, and Seas and Time of Grief, a volume of Walt Whitman’s poetry and prose, The Sea Is a Continual Miracle, and an expanded edition of Mary Oppen’s Meaning a Life: An Autobiography. Yang has received fellowships from the DAAD artists-in-Berlin program, the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Omina Freundeshilfe Foundation. He edits books for New Directions Publishing and New York Review Books.