About Aldo
As A Curator, Fellow, and Public Speaker
As a undergraduate at Harvard, my studies in history and anthropology often intertwined with museum studies. My first professional foray into the art world began at the Harvard Art Museums, with my enrollment in a graded seminar led by curators Mary Schneider-Enriquez and Makeda Best; under their supervision, I curated a mock exhibition for the museum's American Art division. Later, I was contracted by a philanthropic unit of the university to design what became "(Re)Envisioning Eliot's Entryways" - an in-person exhibition and historical critique/retrospective currently installed at Eliot House, Harvard University.
Now, as a young adult and Post-Baccalaureate Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, a research-institution-cum-art-museum, I continue to hone and broadcast to others an appreciation for what I broadly call the "Art of the Americas." I do this primarily via 1) academic writing, but also by 2) designing and delivering educational programming to local K-12 units, and engaging the public with the museum.
As A Museum-Goer, and Aspiring Artist
In addition to my professional responsibilities within the art world, I also engage in both consumption and creation of what I broadly call the "Art of the Americas." I draw particular inspiration from the iconography of certain so-called "Pre-Columbian" cultures such as the Nazca and the Aztec; the 1st- and 2nd-millennia histories and material cultures of the present-day U.S. regions of "New Mexico," "New York City," "New England," and "the Midwestern United States" are also of particular salience to me.
Certain contemporary artists "of the Americas," such as Courtney M. Leonard, Alisa Nisenbaum, and Kay WalkingStick, are major influences of mine. Both before, during, and after my formal studies, I found/find myself broadly resonating/identifying with what is typically considered 1) "canonical" 19th- and 20th-century American art, and 2) 20th-century Mexican muralism.
Exhibitons I've Curated
Fall 2024 - "(Re)Envisioning Eliot's Entryways." Eliot House at Harvard University.
Exhibitons I've Conceptualized
Spring 2023 - "Concept Exhibit for Harvard Art Museums; The Object in the Art Museum." FAS Dept. of History of Art at Harvard University.
Fall 2022 - "Pacific Migration, Existence, and Paradox: A Deep History. " FAS Dept. of History at Harvard University.
Exhibitons and Talks I've Attended
Spring 2024. "Mark Rothko" (Retrospective). Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris).
Fall 2023 - Invited Talk. Bosco Sodi and Mary Schneider-Enriquez. Harvard Art Museums (MA).
Fall 2023 - "Kay WalkingStick/Hudson River School." New York Historical Society (New York).
Fall 2023 - "Rothko on Paper." National Gallery of Art (D.C.).
Fall 2023 - "Many Wests." Smithsonian American Art Museum (D.C.)
Fall 2023 - "Fashioned by Sargent." Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MA).
Fall 2023 - "At the Limits of the Book." Houghton Library at Harvard University (MA).
Summer 2023 - Invited Talk. Christopher Rothko, Kate Rothko, and Elsa Smithgall. Phillips Collection (D.C.)
Summer 2023 - "Philip Guston Now." National Gallery of Art (D.C.)
Summer 2023 - "1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions." National Portrait Gallery (D.C.)
Spring 2023 - "Pour, Tear, Carve." The Philips Collection (DC).
Spring 2023 - "The Sassoons." The Jewish Museum (New York).
Spring 2023 - "Taxonomy: Our Lives Depend on It." Bishop Museum (Honolulu).
Fall 2022 - Ongoing Exhibitions and "Re-Frame" Projects at the Museum of Us (San Diego).
Fall 2022 - "Edward Hopper's New York." Whitney Museum of American Art (New York).
Fall 2022 - "Diego Rivera's America." San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco).
Fall 2022 - "Water Memories." The Metropolian Museum of Art (New York).
Fall 2022 - "The Jewish Deli." New York Historical Society (New York).
