Bronx Museum names new heads
Cultural instituion appoints new executive director and deputy director
BY JASON COHEN
A cultural institution located
on the Grand Concourse
recently announced
the appointment of two of its
top leaders.
Last week, the Bronx Museum
of the Arts named Klaudio
Rodriguez as its new executive
director and announced
the promotion of the institution’s
Director of Government
and Institutional Giving, Shirley
Solomon, who is now the
deputy director.
Rodriguez joined the museum
in September 2017 as
deputy director and has held
the post of interim director
since January 2020.
“I came to the Bronx Museum
with great enthusiasm,
knowing how remarkably this
institution was succeeding
in its mission of transforming
lives through art,” Rodriguez
said. “Over the past three
years, working with this wonderful
Board and staff, I have
felt privileged to serve our
Bronx community and an international
art world that has
looked to us for inspiration.”
Rodriguez was born in Nicaragua
in 1971 but immigrated
with his family to Miami
six years later due to the
country’s revolution. Growing
up in neighborhoods similar
to those surrounding
the Bronx Museum, his parents
encouraged him to begin
drawing as a child. On a trip
to visit his aunt in Madrid, a
young Rodriguez was introduced
to the works of Pablo Picasso,
including Guernica at
the Museo del Prado.
He began his career at the
Patricia and Phillip Frost Art
Museum at Florida International
University. As a museum
curator, he developed a
program of exhibitions and
catalogues, including ones
focused on Latin American
and Caribbean art, geometric
abstraction and contemporary
art, as well as several
others including video works
by women artists and an
one highlighting the Cuban
American fashion designer
Narciso Rodriguez.
“I am proud of what we
have been able to accomplish
even in the midst of the pandemic
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— controlling our budget,
pivoting very quickly to
digital programming, and
committing ourselves to keeping
our entire staff intact,
at full pay — because these
things speak to core values
of responsibility, engagement
and community. It is an honor
now to be named executive director,
and it is a great joy to
move forward with an exciting
exhibition schedule, engaging
and accessible educational
and public programs, and a
50th anniversary celebration
in our future.”
Solomon joined the Bronx
Museum over 15 years ago
and serves as the director of
government and institutional
giving. During her time, she
successfully raised between
$2 million to $3 million annually
from foundation and
public sources of support.
She was also a fundraising
consultant to institutions
including the Bronx River
Art Center and The Noguchi
Museum in Queens.
In the past, she was a program
The Bronx Museum of the Arts appointed Klaudio Rodriguez as the institution’s
new executive director and promoted Shirley Solomon to deputy
director Courtesy of Bronx Musuem of the Arts
assistant at the Smithsonian
Institution’s Center
for African American History
and Culture. She holds
a master’s in visual arts administration
from NYU and
a bachelor’s of arts in art
history and African American
studies from Washington
University in St. Louis.
Solomon has also served on
program and grant panel reviews
for the New York State
Council on the Arts and the
New York City Department of
Cultural Affairs.
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