Taína Caragol also known as Taína Beatriz Caragol-Barreto, is a Puerto Rican art historian, curator, and author.[1] She currently serves as the curator for Latino Art and History at the National Portrait Gallery, since 2013.[1][2] She previously held positions at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and at the Museo de Arte de Ponce.
Since 2013, she has curator for Latino Art and History at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.[2][3] Caragol was hired in part to diversify the museum collection holdings, and to promote diversity in museum representation and American identity in exhibitions.[5] At the time of hire, the National Portrait Gallery had a 22,000-piece collection and held less than 1% Latino, 5% Black, and less than 25% female portraits.[5] In the first 5 years at the role, she grew the Latin representation to 2.5%, mostly with around 150 new works by Latino artists.[5]
She previously held a position as the Latin American bibliographer for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, from 2004 to 2007; and as curator of education at the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 2010.[1][3][4]
Caragol, Taína; Moss, Dorothy; Powell, Richard; Sajet, Kim (2020). "Unveiling the Unconventional, Kehinde Wiley's Portrait of Barack Obama". The Obama Portraits. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN9780691203294.
