Exhibition
Curator, Silät, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 2023.
She holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and a BA in Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires. She has also pursued postgraduate studies in Argentine and Latin American art history from the Universidad de San Martín, Buenos Aires, and social and political anthropology from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2018, María was selected to participate in the Artists and Curators Program at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires.
María has taught at and directed popular education schools inspired by the theory of Brazilian pedagogist Paulo Freire and worked in the Education Department at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. She has also held positions at Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam (Curatorial Fellow) and Bard College Berlin (Guest Curator). María has received grants from the National Ministry of Culture in Argentina and academic scholarships both in the US and Argentina.
Curator, Silät, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 2023.
Editor, Silät. Atsinhay ta chumhas ta ihi Thañí laka Silät (El Mensaje de las Mujeres Trabajadoras de Thañí) [The Message of Thañí's Working Women], a trilingual publication made in collaboration with Thañí weavers, Andrei Fernández, and Demóstenes Toribio García, published by the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 2023.
Exhibition review, Edgar Calel: B'alab'äj (Jaguar Stone) [Piedra del Jaguar]. Artishock Revista de Arte Latinoamericano, July 28th, 2023.
Exhibition text for Elusa, an exhibition by Jimena Croceri, Galería Piedras, Buenos Aires, Oct-Dec 2023.
Co-curator, Ñande Róga: The Feliciano Centurión Archival Collection, Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, New York, 2023; and Ñande Róga, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 2021.
Writer, Interview with Rebecca Belmore, for Indian Theatre accompanying publication, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 2023.
Organizer and presenter, Silvia Federici, “The politics of care, land reclamation and women's struggle for the common good,” Speakers Series, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 2023.
Participant, Curadorxs (Curators), a program that collaborated with mental health service users from Argerich Public Mental Health Hospital and the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2019.
Organizer and presenter, Maria Galindo, “Lo Indígena y lo Marica” (The Indigenous and the Queer), Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2019.
Writer, curatorial text for Manual for the Construction of (Anti)Monuments for a Nation. In collaboration with Bruno Oliveira, La Paz, Bolivia, 2018.
Presenter, “Configuraciones y usos de imágenes de resistencia y denuncia desde los márgenes. Aproximaciones a visualidades y prácticas de resignificación: genealogía de las representaciones de Juana Azurduy” (“Configurations and uses of resistance and denunciation images from the margins. Approaches to visualities and practices of resignification: Juana Azurduy’s representation genealogy), paper delivered at XXXI Congreso ALAS, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2017.