Ilaria Conti’s curatorial work focuses on research-based artistic practices engaging with decolonial epistemologies and the relationship between institutional infrastructures, communal care, curatorial ethics, labor, and civic agency.
Currently, she serves as Curator at the American Federation of Arts, advancing frameworks of decentralized and sustainable exhibition-making focused on contemporary art and social and cultural justice. Previously, she served as Research Curator at the Centre Pompidou for Cosmopolis, a multiyear platform devoted to research-based artistic practices and decolonial methodologies; as Assistant Curator of the 2016 Marrakech Biennale; and as Kress Interpretive Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other positions.
Ilaria is an Awarded Mentee of the 2021-2022 Association of Art Museum Curators Foundation's Mentorship Program and an Advisor in the Visual Arts for the American Academy in Rome. She holds a BA and MA in Art History and Curatorial Studies from the University of Rome La Sapienza and an MA in Visual Arts Management from New York University.
Her curatorial work was featured in projects presented at the Centre Pompidou, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Swiss Institute/Istituto Svizzero, Madre Museum, Fondation H, and La Nueva Fábrica Guatemala, among other institutions.
