Karen Grimson

Karen Grimson joined Dacra in 2022 as Curator of the Craig Robins Collection and Director of Art & Culture. In this role, she oversees the development and execution of a wide range of cultural activations in both the Miami Design District and beyond.

Grimson is an art historian specializing in postwar Latin American and North American art of the 1960s. She curated the traveling exhibition "John Baldessari: The End of the Line” (MALBA, Buenos Aires, 2024; MACA, Punta del Este, 2025; PAMM, Miami, 2026) and edited its accompanying catalogues.

Recently, she organized the public art presentations "Marta Minujín: Dreamscape" (Miami Design District, 2025) and "J'ouvert: Zak Ové" (Miami Design District, 2026). Between 2011 and 2020, she worked at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, developing acquisitions and exhibitions of art from Latin America, such as "Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern," "Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil" and "Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction—The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift." She taught courses on Brazilian modernism and contributed articles to the MoMA publications Among Others: Blackness at MoMA, Being Modern: Building the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Highlights, and Joaquín Torres-García. Her writing has been published by Artforum, Vistas and Inti: Revista de literatura hispánica.

Grimson holds a BA in Arts from Universidad de Buenos Aires, and an MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.