Magali Arriola

Director | Museo Tamayo

Magali Arriola is Director of Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. She was KADIST Lead Curator for Latin America from 2016 to 2019, and curated the Mexican Pavilion for the 58 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, Guy de Cointet and Danh Vo. She was Chief Curator of Museo Tamayo between 2009 and 2011 with artists such as Roman Ondák, Joachim Koester, Claire Fontaine and Adrià Julia. She was visiting curator at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco in 2006. Arriola has extensively written for books, and catalogues and has contributed to publications such as Art Forum, Curare, Frieze, Mousse, Manifesta Journal, and The Exhibitionist, among others.