Robert Lubar Messeri

Robert Lubar Messeri is currently the Joan Miró Curator at the Museu Serralves, Porto, and a Trustee of the Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona. He was a member of the faculty at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University from 1990 to 2025. His appointments also include Director of NYU Madrid (2014-2019) and visiting professorships at the Universitat de Girona and the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Premi Espais and a fellowship from the American Philosophical Society. A specialist in modern European art, with particular research interests in the Spanish, French and Catalan avant-gardes, he recently curated 'Painting/Poetry: Livres d'artiste by Joan Miró' for the Museu Serralves and is now preparing a major exhibition of Miró’s paintings on Masonite for the Museu Serralves and the Fundació Joan Miró.