Maria Carri

María Carri is a political scientist, curator, and writer from Buenos Aires. Her interdisciplinary practice focuses on processes and explores new ways to promote critical thinking and collaborative work.

She holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from Bard College, a BA in Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires, and postgraduate studies in Latin American Art History and Social and Political Anthropology.

María has taught at and directed popular education schools inspired by the theory of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire. She worked at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires and was Curatorial Fellow at Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam...

Curatorial Writing,

Exhibition review,Victoria Pastrana and Nicolás Rodríguez, Critics’ Pick, Artforum, 2025.

Exhibition

Curatorial advisory board member, Cantando Bajito, Ford Foundation Gallery, 2024.

Exhibition

Curator, Silät, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 2023.

Editorial

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.

Curatorial Writing

Exhibition review, Edgar Calel: B'alab'äj (Jaguar Stone) [Piedra del Jaguar]. Artishock Revista de Arte Latinoamericano, July 28th, 2023.

Curatorial Writing

Exhibition text for Elusa, an exhibition by Jimena Croceri, Galería Piedras, Buenos Aires, Oct-Dec 2023.

Exhibition

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.

Curatorial Writing

Writer, Interview with Rebecca Belmore, for Indian Theatre accompanying publication, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 2023.

Public Program

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.

Collective Process

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.

Public Program

Organizer and presenter, Maria Galindo, “Lo Indígena y lo Marica” (The Indigenous and the Queer), Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2019.

Curatorial Writing

Writer, curatorial text for Manual for the Construction of (Anti)Monuments for a Nation. In collaboration with Bruno Oliveira, La Paz, Bolivia, 2018.

Academic Writing and Research

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.