Maria Nicanor
Assistant Curator
Guggenheim curator since 2005
Maria Nicanor joined the curatorial staff in October 2005. At the Guggenheim, she has worked on several exhibitions, including Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso, which awarded Best Historical Show for 2006–2007 by the International Association of Art Critics (AICA-USA); Cy Twombly for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward, which was awarded Best Architecture/Design Show for 2008–2009 by AICA-USA; Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum; and most recently, Color Fields for the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin. Nicanor is a regular contributor to the contemporary-art magazine Exit Express. She holds a BA in Art History from the Autonoma University, Madrid, and Sorbonne University, Paris; an MA in Museum Studies from New York University; and a Ph.D. (ABD) from the Autonoma University, Madrid, with a focus on architectural history and theory.