María Elena works as a Curatorial Assistant at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). She has worked as the Curator of Contemporary Arts at the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros in Mexico City. And she has collaborated with institutions such as New Langton Arts, San Francisco; Teorética, San Jose, Costa Rica; the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco; and Tate Modern, London. In 2012, she curated Wherever You Roam at the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach.