Inés Arango-Guingue is a Colombian curator and writer whose work centers on artists from Latin America and its diasporas. In the last years, her research has focused on Caribbean and South American art and philosophy that acknowledges the social power of the unknown, the opaque, and the illegible. Arango-Guingue’s curatorial focus has been consistently leaning toward performance and time-based art: she is currently developing a platform for interregional and international collaborations and commissions that explore ephemerality and the unknown.
She has participated in organizing and curating exhibitions for Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois in Chicago; the Exhibitions Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC); the Mildred’s Lane Complex(ity) in Narrowsburg, New York; Museo del Banco in Bogotá; Flora Ars + Natura in Bogotá; and Casona de Linea in Havana, Cuba. Arango-Guingue was a resident at Mildred ‘s Lane (Beach Lake, PA); Lugar A Dudas (Cali, Colombia); and Instituto Superior de las Artes (Havana, Cuba). She was also a 2023 Art Table fellow and a 2022 Abakanowicz fellow at SAIC’s Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice. She is a contributing author to the upcoming book Tuning Calder’s Clouds to be published by The Calder Foundation and the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center. She contributed an essay on contemporary Venezuelan artists who engaged with Alexander Calder’s 1954 acoustic panels at the Aula Magna in Caracas. She is co-curator of Learning Together: Art Education and Community at Gallery 400, a major exhibition opening in the fall of 2024 centering the progressive art pedagogy of a diverse group of Chicago artist educators from the mid-1960s through the 2010s. She holds a BFA from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá and an MA in Arts Administration and Policy from SAIC
