(Chicago, United States, 1965. Lives and works in Miami and Bogotá)
Art historian, independent curator, and art critic. She earned a bachelor’s degree in communication sciences from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, a master’s degree in art history from the University of Miami, and a doctorate in Latin American history from the same institution. Since 1989 she has been writing about contemporary art for magazines, specialized newspapers, artist monographs, and exhibition catalogs. She is an editor and contributor to ArtNexus and Letra Urbana magazines and the author of Essays on 20th Century Latin American Art (Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, New York-London, 2022).
She worked as an Adjunct Curator at The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, from 2008 to 2015. As an independent curator, she has organized over 100 exhibitions in the United States, Colombia, and Peru. Among them are Life and Spirituality in Haitian Art. Selection from the Betty and Isaac Rudman Trust Collection (Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida, United States, November 2020-March 2021), Colombia Recounted: A Project of Contemporary Colombian Art ( Oscar Roldán-Alzate, co-curator, Christie’s, New York, New York, United States, May-July, 2015) and Conflicting Realities (Oscar Roldán-Alzate, co-curator, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia, May- July 2015, Espacio ArtNexus, Bogotá, Colombia, June-September, 2014).
Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig is on the advisory board of the Friends of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy, and she is a member of the board of directors of The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Foundation, Sarasota, Florida, USA. On a professional level, she is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), College Art Association (CAA), Association for Latin American Art (ALAA), and Art Table.