Ana Ruiz Valencia

Ana Ruiz Valencia (b. 1989) is a Curator at the Medellín Museum of Modern Art, MAMM, and 2023-2024 Fellow of the Propel Program for Curators (Association of Art Museum Curators, USA). Her previous experiences include serving as a Curator at the Museum of the University of Antioquia (2020-2022), the Auditum Sound Art Festival in Medellín (2021-2022), and as Assistant Curator at the 45th National Salon of Artists of Colombia (2018-2019).

As a curator, she experiments with unconventional formats to showcase contemporary art, with a focus on Latin American artists and cross-disciplinary/collaborative practices. She is interested in the aural dimension of the arts, aiming for an expanded interpretation of the visual, media and performative arts through sonic thinking. During her tenure at MAMM she has curated and co-curated exhibitions that question colonial metanarratives, opening up the museum to non-conventional artistic practices, such as indigenous, community-based and non-western approaches to art, as well as reinterpreting Colombian (art) history through the most important art collection of the country, held by Colombia’s Central Bank. She is currently curating an exhibition around the environmental, social, and political planetary dimensions of food through the work of artists from Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and Africa.

Ana’s research has been published in Cimarron: Freedom and Masquerade (Thames & Hudson), and the magazines Border Listening (Germany), Aural (Chile), Revista UNAM (Mexico), and ContemporaryAnd Latin America. She has given lectures at the University of Guadalajara, Radical Sounds Latin America discourse program, and at the University of Murcia as a Guest Scholar. She holds a MA in Museum Studies (Cum Laude), two BAs in Music Performance and Industrial Design from the National University of Colombia, and has received awards, fellowships, scholarships, and grants from the Association of Art Museum Curators, the Colombian Ministry of Culture, and the National University of Colombia.

Ana Ruiz Valencia, Junior Curator, Medellin Museum of Modern Art, Medellin, Colombia, has been awarded by the Getty Foundation, Los Angeles.