Fabiola Iza

Fabiola Iza (b. 1986) is an independent curator and writer from Mexico City. Although her academic background is deeply rooted in Art History - a B.A. in Art from the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana (2009), a specialization in Curating in the Public Sphere (2010), and a M.A. in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London (2015) - her curatorial practice has explored the narratives muffled, neglected or disregarded by the same discipline. Three primary and interrelated areas of interest –feminism, decoloniality, and the categorization of certain material practices as craft rather than art– have guided its course.

After serving as Associate Curator and Exhibitions Coordinator at Casa del Lago, Mexico City (2010-13), Fabiola has collaborated with museums, galleries, artists’ collectives, foundations and universities throughout Mexico as an independent curator for over a decade. She has taught extensively at universities (Centro, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Escuela Superior de Cine), artistic institutions (SOMA, Museo Tamayo, Centro de la Imagen, Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo), and extended this drive to disseminate ideas through the editorial project t-e-eoría (in collaboration with the Taller de Ediciones Económicas imprint). She has also been an invited speaker/lecturer at Casa de Francia, Museo Casa Diego Rivera, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Museo de Arte Moderno, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Harvard University, Museo Amparo, Centro de la Imagen, among others, and authored numerous essays on Mexican contemporary art and have authored monographic studies, numerous essays and reviews.

Currently, she is developing "Unsettled Echoes," a two-year curatorial program for the Mexico City-based non-profit ESPAC that questions the Modern and Western assumption that the voice is the constitutive element of a subject and what grants them political agency. Given that the voice is a cultural product –the result of instructing the volume, rhythm, pitch, and timbre of a sound produced by the body– what happens to the utterances that fail to comply with these criteria?

Fabiola Iza, Independent Curator and Writer, Mexico City, Mexico, has been awarded by Aimée Labarrere de Servitje, Mexico.