Marissa Del Toro

Marissa Del Toro is the Assistant Director of Programs and Exhibitions at NXTHVN in New Haven, CT. In both her professional and personal life, she continues to work towards the promotion and advocacy for diverse narratives within art. 

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Since 2021, Del Toro has worked with Museums Moving Forward, a data-driven initiative to support greater equity and accountability in art museum workplaces through coalition-building, research, and advocacy. She is currently co-curator of the traveling exhibition Xican-a.o.x. Body with Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Gilbert Vicaro; she has guest curated and written for several institutions including the Latinx Project at NYU, Gagosian 2022 Fall Quarterly, Lehmann Maupin in New York City, and the Mission Cultural Latino Center in San Francisco, CA. She was most recently a 2021-2022 curatorial fellow at NXTHVN, where she co-curated two exhibitions and worked alongside the studio fellows in developing their professional practice. She previously held positions at Phoenix Art Museum from 2018-2020; Santa Barbara Museum of Art from 2017-2018; the Getty Research Institute as a Graduate Intern from 2016-2017; UTSA Art Gallery as the Curatorial Assistant Intern from 2014 to 2015. In July 2015, she participated in the Latino Museum Studies Program at the Smithsonian Latino Center. She graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio with her MA in Art History and is originally from Southern California, where she received her BA in Art History from the University of California, Riverside.