Miró and the United States

A curator and art historian, Dr. Dolors Rodríguez Roig studied at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and has been a curator and exhibition coordinator at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona since 2021. She is also a teaching and research fellow at the Faculty of Communication of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and coordinator of the Miró-UPF Chair.

Between 2015 and 2023, she was an associate professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She initially taught in the postgraduate course Miró Studies under the Joan Miró Chair and later in the master’s program Humanities: Contemporary Culture, Literature, and Art, where she taught the subject Art of the Twentieth Century: Joan Miró as a Case Study. Between 2015 and 2018, she was a researcher and associate curator at Mayoral Gallery. 

Among her most notable recent exhibitions are Joan Miró. His Most Intimate Legacy (with Marko Daniel and Elena Escolar, 2022) and Margaret Michaelis. Five Days in Barcelona Chinatown (2021). She has also participated as a curator in projects such as Miró-ADLAN: An Archive of Modernity (1932–1936) (with Jordana Mendelson, Muriel Gómez, and Joan Minguet Batllori, 2021), Joan Miró – Au-delà de la peinture (with Rosa Maria Malet, 2019), Ethics and Aesthetics: Miró/Artigas (with Robert S. Lubar), and The Space of Dreams (with Vincenç Altaió, 2017), among others.

Her research focuses on Joan Miró, interwar art, postwar art, and outsider art from the early twentieth century.

Katy Rogers is the President and CEO of the Dedalus Foundation, where she has worked since 2003. She is the author of the catalogue raisonné of Motherwell’s drawings (Yale University Press, 2022), and a co-author of the catalogue raisonné of Motherwell’s paintings and collages (Yale University Press, 2012), and of Motherwell: 100 Years (Skira, 2015). Ms. Rogers co-authored the chapter “Art in Collaboration: Celebrating Creative Communities through Dialogue” in Bridging Communities through Socially Engaged Art (Routledge, 2019). She was the Guest Critic of the February 2023 issue of the Brooklyn Rail.

Ms. Rogers has written catalogue essays and articles published by a number of museums, galleries, and educational institutions, including Hunter College, the Whitney Museum of American Art, El Museo del Barrio, Kasmin Gallery, Gagosian Gallery, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Art Libraries Society, and the Archives of American Art. She has lectured and participated in panels on Robert Motherwell, catalogue raisonné research, and artist legacy work at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts (CASVA), the Menil Drawing Institute, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien, Hunter College, Stony Brook University, the College Art Association, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Newark Museum of Art, the Phillips Collection, the Aspen Institute, the International Association of Art Critics (AICA-USA), and the Royal Academy, London.

From 2013 to 2021, she was the President of the Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association where she co-organized the conferences “The Catalogue Raisonné and its Construction” and “The Afterlife of Sculptures: Posthumous Casts in Scholarship, the Market, and the Law.” A graduate of the University of Colorado and Hunter College, Ms. Rogers is also an alumna of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP) where she was a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow. She currently serves on the Boards of the Dedalus Foundation, Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation, and the College Art Association, and is a member of the National Advisory Board of the Laundromat Project.