Gilbert Vicario is The Selig Family Chief Curator and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Phoenix Art Museum since October 2015. Prior to joining the Phoenix Art Museum he was senior curator and division head for curatorial affairs at the Des Moines Art Center since August 2009. Recent exhibitions include The Propeller Group, Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic (traveling exhibition); Phoenix Rising: The Valley Collects; Field, Road, Cloud: Art and Africa [Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou, El Anatsui, Nick Cave, Meschac Gaba, Romuald Hazoumè, Alfredo Jaar and William Kentridge] (2015); From Speaker to Receiver [Shilpa Gupta, Zoe Leonard, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Amalia Pica, Michael Müller, and Anri Sala] (2014); and Phyllida Barlow: Scree (2013). In 2006, Vicario was named U.S. Commissioner for the International Biennale of Cairo by the U.S. Department of State and was a participating curator in the 2007 Lyon Biennial: The History of a Decade That Has Not Yet Been Named.