Ilaria Conti is a curator and non-profit leader whose work spans curatorial research, institution-building, and the development of international platforms for artistic exchange. Her practice is grounded in research-driven artistic processes and explores questions of epistemic justice, decolonial sentipensar, curatorial ethics, labor, communal care, and civic agency. Across her work, she is particularly interested in how cultural institutions can create conditions for sustained inquiry, experimentation, and exchange across disciplines, geographies, and forms of knowledge.
She is currently the Executive Director and Chief Curator of La Nueva Fábrica, a Guatemalan-US non-profit organization dedicated to fostering contemporary art and social justice. Based in La Antigua, Guatemala, LNF is home to an exhibition space, an international residency program for artists and curators, and educational initiatives that actively engage a broad spectrum of communities.
Previously, she served as Curator at the American Federation of Arts, Research Curator and Associate Curator at the Centre Pompidou, Assistant Curator of the 2016 Marrakech Biennale, and Samuel H. Kress Interpretive Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other positions.
She is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Instituto Cáder de Arte Centroamericano (ICAC) of the Reina Sofía Museum and an Advisor in the Visual Arts for the American Academy in Rome.
Ilaria holds a BA and MA in Art History and Curatorial Studies from the University of Rome La Sapienza and an MA in Visual Arts Management from New York University.
She was awarded fellowships by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Modern, the 92Y, the Association of Art Museum Curators’ Mentorship Program, and CIMAM—International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art.
Her curatorial work has been featured at the Centre Pompidou, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Georgetown University Art Galleries, Swiss Institute/Istituto Svizzero, Madre Museum, and Fondation H, among other institutions.
Ilaria is a member of Art Workers Italia.
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