Elizabeth Ferrer is a writer, curator, and arts activist. She is the former vice president and chief curator at BRIC in Brooklyn, New York. Her extensive background includes lecturing and contributing to numerous publications focusing on Latinx art and photography. Ferrer curated two seminal photographic exhibitions that traveled to museums nationally, A Shadow Born of Earth: New Photography in Mexico, and Lola Álvarez Bravo, which was the first major project to emerge from CCP’s acquisition of Álvarez Bravo’s archive.
Her 2022 publication, Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History, is the first major survey of this topic, and investigates photographers active from 19th century to the present day. Most recently, she curated the exhibition Louis Carlos Bernal: Retrospectiva, currently on view at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. The exhibition is accompanied by a book authored by Ferrer and co-published with Aperture, Louis Carlos Bernal: Monografía.
