Art professionals visit Amsterdam Art Week 2025

Amanda de la Garza

Function: Deputy Artistic Director, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid Country: Spain Visiting period: 20 - 25 May Visiting year: 2025 Part of Art professionals visit Amsterdam Art Week 2025

From 2020 to 2024, she was General Director of Visual Arts and of the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) at UNAM, one of the most important art museum in Latin America.  Trained in Curatorial Studies, Art History, Anthropology and Sociology, between 2012 and 2019 she worked as an associate curator at the MUAC. She has curated and coordinated more than 30 exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, as well as archival exhibitions and solo shows of renowned artists, including Harun Farocki, Hito Steyerl, Vicente Rojo, Jeremy Deller, Isaac Julien, Jonas Mekas, José Dávila and Chantal Peñalosa for museums in Latin America, Europe and the USA.  She has published essays, interviews and reviews in catalogues, books and specialized magazines. She has been awarded the Emerging Curators Award at the Borders Biennial and various research grants. She was a member of the board of ICOM Mexico from 2021 to 2024. She is currently a member of AAMD (Association Art Museum Directors) and is part of the board of CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art).