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Julieta González is Head of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, and Curator-at-Large for Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo. Prior to that, she was Artistic Director at Inhotim, Brazil, Artistic Director at Museo Jumex in Mexico City, Chief Curator at the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City, and Adjunct Curator at the Bronx Museum in New York. From 2009–12, she was Associate Curator of Latin American Art at Tate Modern, London, and an independent curator. She was curator of contemporary art at the Museo Alejandro Otero (1999–2001) and Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas (1994–97 and 2001–03). González was co-curator of the 2nd Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan, Latinoamérica y el Caribe with Jens Hofmann, along with Artistic Director Adriano Pedrosa and guest curator Beatriz Santiago. She has curated and co-curated more than 60 exhibitions, including Memories of Underdevelopment, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (as part of Pacific Standard Time Latin America in LA); Franz Erhard Walther: Objects to Use/ Instruments for Processes, Museo Jumex; Lina Bo Bardi: Habitat (in partnership with MASP); GeGo: Measuring Infinity (in partnership with MASP and the Guggenheim Museum), all at Museo Jumex; Juan Downey: A Communications Utopia (2013); Rita McBride: Public Transaction (2013); Tomorrow Was Already Here (2012), all at the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City; Ways of Working: The Incidental Object, Fondazione Merz, Turin (2013); Parque Industrial, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2012); Juan Downey: El ojo pensante, Fundación Telefónica, Santiago, Chile (2010); Farsites, Insite San Diego/Tijuana (adjunct curator with curator Adriano Pedrosa, 2005); Etnografía modo de empleo, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas (2003); and Demonstration Room: Ideal House (with Jesús Fuenmayor, 2000–02), Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas. González has edited several artist books and written essays for international publications and catalogs. She holds an MA in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, London, was a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program (1997–98), and studied architecture at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas and at the École d’Architecture Paris-Villemin in Paris.