Juan is a Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Florida International University. He is the author of Cuban Art & National Identity: The Vanguardia Painters 1927-1950 (University Press of Florida, 1994) and of monographs on Carlos Enríquez and María Brito, scheduled for publication in Fall 2009. Juan returned to FSU in 2016 to give a public lecture in association with the FSU Museum of Fine Arts exhibition Cuban Art in the 20th Century.