Curatorial Roundtable with Marina Reyes Franco

March 22, 2023.

In 2010, Franco co-founded La Ene, an itinerant museum and collection. Her past projects include De Loiza a la Loiza, a MAC en el Barrio public art commission by Daniel Lind Ramos (2020); “Resisting Paradise” at Publica, San Juan and Fonderie Darling, Montreal (2019); “Watch your step / Mind your head” at ifa Galerie-Berlin (2017); the 2nd Grand Tropical Biennial, co-curated with Pablo León de la Barra, Stefan Benchoam, and Radamés “Juni” Figueroa (2016); “A Summer in Puerta de Tierra,” an exhibition and day outing in a San Juan neighborhood in response to the policies of population displacement and tourism focus in the area (2015); “Calibán,” a selection of Puerto Rican contemporary artists at the MAC in San Juan (2014); “Sucursal,” an exhibition of the collection of La Ene, at the Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires, (co-curated with Gala Berger, Sofía Dourron, and Santiago Villanueva, 2014); and numerous exhibitions at La Ene while she was director. Her research interests include the work of Esteban Valdés, artistic and literary manifestations on the frontier of political action, new museology and the impact of tourism on cultural production. She received the 2017 CPPC Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean, and was nominated for ICI’s 2014 Independent Vision Curatorial Award. 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.