Inés Arango-Guingue

Inés Arango-Guingue is a Colombian curator, writer, and artist with a focus on art and artists from South America and its diasporas. She has organized and curated solo and group exhibitions, led artist spaces, conducted art education programs, and exhibited in Colombia, the United States, and Cuba. She holds an M.A. in Arts Administration and Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a B.F.A. in Art and Cultural Projects from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. Her recent curatorial projects include Ghosts and Paratext at Museo del Banco de La República in Bogotá, a five-month-long residency and exhibition program; Everything Must Go, the final project for the Abakanowicz fellowship at the Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and the most recent issue of Emerge Journal, which was focused on change, improvisation, and co-inspiration in arts administration, which she edited. She recently completed a fellowship at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center in New York City, a long-time staple of the Lower East Side’s Latinx community of artists. Growing up surrounded by syncretic magical practices, she feels akin to epistemologies that are looking away from Western standards of reason and categorization; in resonance, her current research focuses on Caribbean and South American art and philosophy that acknowledge how the unknown, the opaque, and the illegible are woven into society.