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Magali Arriola is an independent curator, writer and researcher. She was Director of Museo Tamayo in Mexico City (2019- 2024) and KADIST Lead Curator for Latin America from 2017 to 2019. Arriola curated the Mexican Pavilion for the 58th Venice Biennial (Pablo Vargas Lugo, Acts of God, 2019). She was Chief Curator at Museo Jumex between 2011 and 2014, where she organized exhibitions of artists such as James Lee Byars (co- curated with Peter Eleey and co-produced with MoMA-PS1), Guy de Cointet, and Danh Vo, and curated shows contextualizing works from the Jumex Collection. Arriola was Chief Curator of Museo Tamayo between 2009 and 2011, where she curated exhibitions and projects with artists such as Roman Ondák, Joachim Koester, Claire Fontaine, Adrià Julia, and Julio Morales. She was visiting curator at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco in 2006, where she curated Prophets of Deceit.
From 1998 to 2001, Arriola was Chief Curator at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City, where she worked with a generation of artists that includes Eduardo Abaroa, Francis Alÿs, Miguel Calderon, Daniela Rossell, and Pablo Vargas Lugo. Her independent projects include Pablo Vargas Lugo, Acts of God, the Mexican Pavilion at the 58 Venice Biennial (2019); The Sweet Burnt Smell of History: The 8th Panama Biennial (2008); What once passed for a future, or The landscapes of the living dead (Art2102, Los Angeles, 2005); How to Learn to Love the Bomb and Stop Worrying about it (CANAIA, México City / Central de Arte at WTC, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2003-2004); Alibis (Mexican Cultural Institute, Paris /Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2002); Erógena (Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City / SMAK/ Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, 2000); Peter Greenaway, Painting and Artifice (Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, 1997). Arriola has extensively written for books and catalogues and has contributed to publications such as Artforum, Curare, Frieze, Mousse, Manifesta Journal, and The Exhibitionist, among others.