María Carri is a curator, critic, and scholar specializing in Latin American and Indigenous contemporary art. Her work engages with institutional critique, Indigenous epistemologies, and collaborative modes of curatorial practice.

She curated Silät, the first US exhibition and trilingual publication of Thañí (Hessel Museum, 2023), and co-curated Ñande Róga, an exhibition on Feliciano Centurión's archive (ISLAA, New York, 2022). She served on the curatorial advisory board of Cantando Bajito (Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, 2024). Previously, she held positions at Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires and Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam. She has received grants from Argentina's Ministry of Culture and academic scholarships in the US and Argentina. In 2024, she was a resident at Pivô Pesquisa in São Paulo.


She holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies at 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. Currently, she is Visiting Professor of Contemporary Art at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires.

Curatorial Writing,

Exhibition review, Returning to Belém. On the Second Bienal das Amazônias, On Site, Artforum, 2025.

Curatorial Writing,

Exhibition review, Chonon Bensho and Pedro Favaron: Maloca, Artishock, 2025.

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, “Oral History Interview with Rebecca Belmore.” In Native Visual Sovereignty: A Reader on Art and Performance, edited by Candice Hopkins. Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 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.