Ilaria’s work focuses on research-based artistic practices engaging with decoloniality and epistemic justice. Her practice is concerned with institutional infrastructures, communal care, curatorial ethics, labor, and civic agency.
Currently, she serves as Curator at the American Federation of Arts in New York City, advancing frameworks of decentralized and sustainable exhibition-making with a focus on contemporary art and social/cultural justice.
Previously, she served as Research Curator at the Centre Pompidou as part of the curatorial team of Cosmopolis, a multiyear platform devoted to research-based artistic practices and decolonial methodologies.
She was Assistant Curator of the 2016 Marrakech Biennale and Samuel H. Kress Interpretive Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other positions.
She is an Advisor in the Visual Arts for the American Academy in Rome and a Curatorial Advisor for La Nueva Fábrica in Antigua, Guatemala.
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 Behrend Women-in-Power Program, and the Association of Art Museum Curators’ Mentorship Program.
Her curatorial work has been featured in projects presented at the Centre Pompidou, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Swiss Institute/Istituto Svizzero, Madre Museum, Fondation H, and La Nueva Fábrica, among other institutions.
Ilaria is a member of Art Workers Italia.
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