Alexia Tala

Alexia Tala currently works as chief curator of the 22nd Paiz Art Biennial in Guatemala, curator of the Solo sector for SP-arte in Sao Paulo (Brazil, 2019-2020) and artistic director of Plataforma Atacama, Brasil a project addressing the relationship between art and place based in the Atacama desert in Chile, developing projects with artists such as Hamish Fulton, Melanie Smith and Paz Errázuriz among others.

Previously curator of Focus Brasil (Chile, 2010), chief curator of LARA (Latin American Roaming Art 2012- 2013); she has also curated Solo exhibitions by artists such as Cadu, Francisca Aninat, Marcelo Moscheta and Hamish Fulton, and was co-curator for the first Performance Biennial Deformes (Chile, 2006); the exhibition Museum Man: Historia de la Desaparición (Franklin Furnace archivesCentro Cultural Palacio La Moneda, Chile, 2007); the 8th Mercosur Biennial Essays in Geopeotics (Brazil, 2011), the 4th Poly/graphic Triennial of San Juan: Latin America and the Caribbean in Puerto Rico, the 20th Paiz Art Biennial in Guatemala, Solo Projects: Focus Latin America for ARCO 2013 and Solo Projects for Summa Art Fair Madrid . She was also curator of the Printmaking Collectors Club and guest researcher of Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende

She writes for art publications in Latin America and internationally. She is the author of Installations and Experimental Printmaking (UK, 2009) and of the next monograph publication on the work of Lotty Rosenfeld.

Last update: 16th November, 2020