Fundación
Ama Amoedo

Marielsa Castro Vizcarra is a curator whose practice focuses on the intersection of pedagogy and curatorial work. She is currently Chief Curator at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin and an Associate at coopia, a cooperative experiment that explores making through inhabiting and learning as forms of socio-environmental transformation. From 2021 to 2025, she was Associate Curator at Museo Jumex, where she led exhibitions, public programs, and the community-based project Museos en común. Between 2017 and 2019, she oversaw education and public engagement programs at the Unidad de Artes del Banco de la República in Bogotá, fostering initiatives with communities traditionally underserved by museums. Previously, she directed LIGA | Space for Architecture | DF (2012–2015), a platform dedicated to Latin American architecture. She holds a degree in Architecture from Universidad Iberoamericana In Mexico City and a master’s in Art, Design, and the Public Domain from Harvard University.

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 (2018–2020), where she curated Pedro Friedeberg “Amaze Me and I Amaze You” (2021) and Anastasia Samoylova “FloodZone” (2020), among other exhibitions. 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). She has written texts and essays for different publications and has participated as an advisor for the book “Latin American Artists, from 1785 to today” (Phaidon Press, 2023). Flom received an M.A. in Museum Studies at New York University.

José Roca is a Colombian curator. Currently he is the Estrellita B. Brodsky Curator at large of Latin American and Latin Diasporic Art at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, part of the Smithsonian Institute. He was the Artistic Director of rīvus, 23rd Biennale of Sydney, Australia (2022). From 2012 to 2022 he managed FLORA ars+natura, an independent space for contemporary art in Bogotá. He was the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art at Tate, London (2012-15), and curator of the LARA collection, Singapore (2012-20). He has curated several biennials and exhibitions around Latin America, USA, Europe, and Asia. Roca served on the awards jury for the 52nd Venice Biennial (2007) and the Prince Claus Awards Committee (2012-16). He was the Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program (2001-2002), and the Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2002-2003). He received the CIFO Curatorial Achievement Award (2012) and the Montblanc de la Culture Prize (2017).

Susanna V. Temkin is Interim Chief Curator at El Museo del Barrio in New York, and holds a PhD. from the Institute of Fines Arts, New York University. At El Museo, she has curated or co-curated exhibitions including the museum's fiftieth anniversary exhibition, Culture and the People (2019); Estamos Bien - La Trienal (2020-2021); DOMESTICANX (2022); and Flow States - La Trienal 2024, among others. Previously, she served as Assistant Curator at Americas Society in New York, as well as the research and archive specialist at the Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., where she assisted in co-authoring the digital catalogue raisonné of artist Joaquín Torres-García. Her writing has appeared in several publications and exhibition catalogues, including the forthcoming Candida Alvarez: Circle, Point Hoop (El Museo del Barrio, 2025); Alice Neel: People Come First (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021); and Concrete Cuba: Cuba Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s (David Zwirner Books, 2016).

Roxana Fabius is an Uruguayan curator and art administrator. Between 2016 and 2022 she was Executive Director at A.I.R. Gallery, the first artist-run feminist cooperative space in the U.S. During her tenure. she organized programs and exhibitions with artists and thinkers such as Gordon Hall, Elizabeth Povinelli, Jack Halberstam, Che Gosset, Regina José Galindo, Lex Brown, Kazuko, Zarina, Mindy Seu, Naama Tzabar and Howardena Pindell among others. These exhibitions, programs and commissions were made in collaboration with international institutions such as the Whitney Museum (New York) Google Arts and Culture, The Feminist Institute, and Frieze Art Fair in New York and London. Fabius is currently curating the 2024 exhibition series Cantando Bajito at the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York, and is the Director of Programs and Curator at The Neighborhood. She lives and works in New York.

Laura Hakel is Curator of Collection and Artistic Projects of Fundación Ama Amoedo. Previously she was Curator at the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, where she organized exhibitions and projects such as Gabriel Chaile: Patricia (2017), Mercedes Azpilicueta: Body Birds (2018), Flavia Da Rin: Who's That Girl? (2019), among others. Between 2023-2024 she was ISLAA Curatorial Fellow at the New Museum, New York. Her texts have recently been published by Phaidon Press in Prime: Art's Next Generation (2022) and Latin American Artist: From 1785 to Now (2023). She holds a BA from the University of Buenos Aires and an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York. She lives and works in New York.

Pablo Lafuente is a writer, editor, and curator. Since 2020 he works as Artistic Director for the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was co-curator for the 31st Bienal de São Paulo (2014), and the exhibitions Some May Work as Symbols (Raven Row, London, 2024), Dja Guata Porã: Rio de Janeiro Indígena (Museu de Arte do Rio, 2017-18) and A Singular Form (Secession, Vienna, 2014), among others. Lafuente worked as an editor for Afterall and Afterall Books, and between 2018 and 2020 he was the coordinator of the Programa CCBB Educativo, at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro. He lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Nancy Rojas is a curator and teacher specialized in contemporary art. Since 2022, she has been part of the curatorial team at the Malba Museum in Argentina. She is the author of Mugre Severa, published by Caracol (Buenos Aires, 2021), co-author of Las olas del deseo: sobre feminismos, diversidades y cultura visual (Ministry of Culture of the Argentine Nation, 2021), and writer of essays and research published in catalogs and books. In 2023, she curated the exhibition Vía pública by Marcela Sinclair at Malba. Moreover, in recent years she has led numerous curatorial projects exploring some of the symptomatic intersections of the present between queer culture, its micropolitical drifts and contemporary images. Rojas was a curator and researcher at the Castagnino + macro museum of Rosario, where until 2010 she led the Acquisitions Program that formed the Collection of Contemporary Argentine Art. She lives and works in Buenos Aires.

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.

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.

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).

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.