Julie Rodrigues Widholm

Julie Rodrigues Widholm is the Executive Director of UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), where she leads the strategic and artistic vision to promote community building, new scholarship, equity, and interdisciplinary learning in exhibitions, collections, and programs. Prior to BAMPFA, Rodrigues Widholm was director and chief curator at DePaul Art Museum, where she launched a multiyear Latinx Art Initiative, and a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago specializing in global contemporary art and artists from Latin America. Her curatorial projects have been presented at museums across the United States, such as Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Nasher Museum at Duke University, MIT List Visual Arts Center, among others. She holds a BA in Art History and Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and MA in Art History, Theory and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.