Marcela Correa

Marcela Correa is an independent curator based in New Orleans. Since 2015, she has curated a number of group exhibitions around Louisiana, including: Architecture (2015), Louisiana Treasures from the Vaults of the New Orleans Museum of Art (2015), Hispanic Women Making Art: Creative Empowerment and Identity (2018) and a solo exhibition with artist, Carmen Mariscal, called Calladita te ves más bonita / Be Pretty and Shut Up (2019). She has worked in several galleries around the world, ranging from antiquities to contemporary art, such as Galerie Kugel in Paris, Sprovieri Gallery and Ronchini Gallery in London and most recently at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans. Apart from working with recognized Louisiana artists, George Dunbar and Tameka Norris, she also worked for a brief time with curator, Alice Yelen, at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Between 2015 and 2020, she was the Executive Director of the Arts District of New Orleans Association. Additionally, she served as a member of the Advisory Board for the SXSW Art Program between 2018 and 2020. And since the pandemic, Correa continues her independent curatorial research, as well as co-hosts the Artist Profile Series podcast for the Creative Community League. She is also the art consignment director at Crescent City Auction Gallery in New Orleans.  She holds two Masters of Art with Merits: one in Contemporary Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London and the other in The History and Business of Art and Collecting from the Institut d’Etudes Supérieures des Arts & Warwick University in Paris and London. Correa also completed the Curatorial Intensive in New Orleans with the Independent Curators International in 2015.