SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- After a comprehensive international search, Lucía Sanromán will be joining Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in October 2015 as the new Director of Visual Arts. Over the course of her career, Sanromán has curated groundbreaking exhibitions throughout the United States, Mexico and Latin America.

"I am absolutely thrilled that Lucía Sanromán will be our new Director of Visual Arts," said Deborah Cullinan, Chief Executive Officer of YBCA. "I spoke with museum directors, curators, artists and colleagues across the US and in Mexico. The praise for Lucía as a visionary, a collaborator, a thinker and a colleague was boundless."

A sought after independent curator currently working in the United States and Mexico, Sanromán has been awarded a Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Fellowship, a Warhol Exhibition Grant, and a Warhol Foundation Curatorial Fellowship, among others.

In 2015, Sanromán has been working on Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge, a collaboration with Philadelphia Mural Arts and Cohabitation Strategies. In 2014 she was co-curator of SITE Santa Fe's signature Biennial SITElines.2014: Unsettled Landscapes. That same year, she presented Citizen Culture: Art and Architecture Shape Policy, at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. And also that year, she curated the retrospective exhibition inSite: Cuatro ensayos de lo público, sobre otro escenario, at Proyecto Siqueiros: La Tallera, in Cuernavaca Mexico. She was Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego from 2006-2011.

"I am delighted to be joining Yerba Buena Center for the Arts at this exciting time in its history," said Sanromán. "YBCA is fueled by a belief, which I share, in the role of artists as catalysts of new social imaginaries. YBCA understands and embraces, with renewed energy, a mandate to mediate the complexities of a changing city. I look forward to contributing my energies and experience to its Visual Arts program."

Before she joins YBCA, Sanromán is completing several independent projects including co-curating with Irene Hofman of Solo Projects for ARCO/Madrid; and working as a member of the curatorial team for the Getty's Talking to Action initiative.