Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
Julie Rodrigues Widholm is Director of De Paul Art Museum in Chicago. Prior to assuming her position at De Paul in August 2015, she was Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. With a broadly international scope that mirrors her childhood living in several countries including the U.S., Brazil, Mozambique, Portugal, and Germany, Rodrigues Widholm began her curatorial career working on ground-breaking exhibitions such as The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994 and Tropicalia: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture and has continued to focus on working with artists from around the globe. She recently organized Doris Salcedo’s first retrospective at MCA Chicago, which traveled to the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Other recent curatorial projects include Amalia Pica co-organized with MIT List Visual Arts Center, Amanda Ross-Ho’s first outdoor public art project, Cauleen Smith: A Star is a Seed, and Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks.
