April 27, 2024

José Ignacio, Uruguay

Fundación
Ama Amoedo

Jury2023

Sonia Becce

Sonia Becce is an independent curator based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since 1989 she has collaborated with artist Guillermo Kuitca, working with him on various publications and exhibitions. Among others, she curated Guillermo Kuitca: Desenlace, at MACA (Manantiales, 2023) and was co-curator with Paulo Herkenhoff of the retrospective Guillermo Kuitca: 1983-2003 at Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid) and at MALBA (Buenos Aires). She participated as a juror and coordinated all the editions of the Kuitca Fellowship. She was responsible for numerous exhibitions in Argentina and abroad. She contributed to the Triennials Younger than Jesus (2009) and The Ungovernables (2012), New Museum (New York). In 2017 she was the curator of the Multidisciplinary Exhibition Program on the occasion of Argentina, guest country at ARCOmadrid. Together with Mariano Mayer she co-curated 8 exhibitions and individually was responsible for the shows at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Caixa Forum, and the contemporary music and dance program at Museo Reina Sofía, among others.

Jury2023

Verónica Flom

Verónica Flom is the Director of Fundación Ama Amoedo. She was trained as an art historian and curator with a focus on Latin American Art. Before joining the Foundation, Flom served as Curator at Dot Fiftyone Gallery in Miami (2018–2020), where she curated Pedro Friedeberg “Amaze Me and I Amaze You” (2021) and Anastasia Samoylova “FloodZone” (2020), among others. Previously, she worked as Public Programs Coordinator of Visual Arts at Americas Society in New York (2015–2018) as well as Assistant at the Art Department of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires (2009–2013). Flom received an M.A. in Museum Studies at New York University. She is based between the USA, Uruguay, and Argentina.

Jury2023

Yudi Rafael

Yudi Rafael is an independent curator and researcher based in São Paulo (Brazil). His recent curatorial projects include Parable of Progress, at Sesc Pompeia, Entangled Images: Asia–Brazil Through the Lenses of Photoclubism, at SP–Arte/ARCA, and Residência Artística Cambridge, at Ocupação Hotel Cambridge, through which he was a recipient of São Paulo Association of Art Critics’ APCA 2016 – Urban Appropriation Award. He holds an MA and MPhil in Latin American and Iberian Cultures from Columbia University in New York, and is the co-translator to Portuguese of Anna Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World (O cogumelo no fim do mundo, n-1, 2022).

Jury2023

Marina Reyes Franco

Marina Reyes Franco is a curator at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC). She received a BA in Art History from the University of Puerto Rico and a MA in Argentine and Latin American Art History at IDAES-UNSAM, in Argentina. In 2010, she co-founded La Ene, an itinerant museum and collection. Her recent projects include Tropical Is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime, at Americas Society, NY and MAC, San Juan; Resisting Paradise, at Publica, San Juan and Fonderie Darling, Montreal; Watch your step / Mind your head, ifa-Galerie Berlin. As a curator and researcher, she has focused on the work of Esteban Valdes, artistic and literary manifestations on the frontier of political action, and the impact of tourism in cultural production in the Caribbean. She received the 2017 CPPC Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean and was nominated for ICl's 2014 Independent Vision Curatorial Award.