Join Layla Bermeo, Kristin and Roger Servison Curator of Paintings in the Art of the Americas department at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), for a conversation about Latin American and Latinx art in the MFA's collection. Learn about the development of the Spanish Colonial collections in the Art of the Americas Wing, the recent exhibition on iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, and Contemporary Latina artists such as Luchita Hurtado and Carmen Herrera.

Layla Bermeo is the Kristin and Roger Servison Curator of Paintings in the Art of the Americas department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Before joining the MFA in 2016, she co-curated the Black History/Art History Performance Art Series at Harvard University, held curatorial fellowships at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and served as a guest curator at the African American Museum in Philadelphia. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University, an MA from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, and she is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University. At the MFA, Layla co-organized “Collecting Stories: Native American Art” and curated “Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular” -- the forthcoming retrospective catalog on the Kahlo exhibition will be the MFA's first bilingual English/Spanish publication.