Alberto Ríos de la Rosa

Art historian and curator. He is currently the curator of Fundación Casa Wabi and a contributing researcher and writer for Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel.

He holds a MA in art history from The Courtauld Institute of Art, London (2014) and a BA in art history and french literature from Macalester College, Minneapolis (2011).

As curator of Fundación Casa Wabi, he has worked on individual exhibitions by Daniel Buren, Michel François, Harold Ancart, Jannis Kounellis, Ugo Rondinone and Izumi Kato; developed the residencies program in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca and Tokyo welcoming over three hundred art professionals from all over the world to work in a community project, and promoted emerging Mexican artists through its exhibition platform in Mexico City. Previously, he held positions at the curatorial teams of the Museo Tamayo (2011-2013) in Mexico, the Minneapolis Institute of Art (2011) in the USA and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (2010) in Venice.

As an independent curator, he has focused his research on the analysis of the recent sculptural production practices in the region, working on the development of sustainable projects for the exhibition and study of emerging artists and independent spaces.