Alejandra Labastida Escalante

Alejandra Labastida Escalante (b. 1979) is currently Associate Curator at MUAC (University Museum of Contemporary Art) in Mexico City, where she has worked in the Curatorial Department since 2008. She holds a master’s degree in art history with a specialization in Curatorial Studies from UNAM and a BA in History from the Universidad Iberoamericana. In 2013 she received the ICI / SAHA Research Award and in 2012 she won the Akbank Sanat International Curatorial Competition. In 2011 she was part of the curatorial team of the Pavilion of Mexico of the 54th Venice Biennial.

She has curated over 50 exhibitions at MUAC and in other national and international museums, including: Mothering Between Stockholm Syndrome and Acts of production, Melanie Smith. Farce and artifice co-curated with Tanya Barson, (MUAC-Amparo), Playing Innocent, (MMAG Foundation, Jordan), Teresa Margolles Sutura, co-curated with Karla Pudar for the French Pavilion of the Zagreb Student Center, Chto delat. When We Thought We had the Answers, Life Changed the Questions co-curated with Cuauhtémoc Medina (MUAC), Jill Magid. A Letter Always Arrives at its Destination. The Barragán Archives co-curated with Cuauhtémoc Medina (MUAC), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Pseudomatisms co-curated with José Luis Barrios (MUAC), Mladen Stilinović. 1 + 2 = (MUAC).

Her current projects involve 2 exhibitions of MUAC’s collection and solo shows by Ana Gallardo, Julieta Aranda, Kader Attia and Delcy Morelos.

Alejandra Labastida Escalante, Curator, MUAC-UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico, has been awarded by the Getty Foundation, Los Angeles.