Karla Niño de Rivera Torres is the Head of Exhibitions and Collections and Chief Curator at the Diego Rivera Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City. She began her career in 2006 as an Art Conservator, which led her to work with Contemporary Art Theory, Mexican modern painting, and the study of Mesoamerican material culture.
Since joining the museum, Karla has focused on establishing a conservation program for both the Mesoamerican collection and the contemporary pyramid designed and built by Rivera and Juan O'Gorman in the 1940s. Since 2016, Karla has been part of the team responsible for overseeing the initial planning, construction, and opening of the architectural extension created by architect Mauricio Rocha In 2021, with whom she collaborated closely to develop the open storage facility housing 50,000 pre-Hispanic pieces from the Rivera-Kahlo collection.
Since 2010, Karla has worked to build and consolidate an exhibition program that engages with the building itself and questions the historical, social, and political context in which it was created. She also focuses on presenting new approaches to the pre-Columbian collections on display and in storage, always understanding temporary exhibitions as devices for preserving the imagery of Rivera's project. She has organized over forty significant exhibitions, the most recent being solo shows such as Nunca Solo by artist Alma Allen, Amnesia Atómica by Pedro Reyes, and the duo show ¿Cómo se escribe Muerte al sur? featuring Argentine artist Carolina Fusilier and Mexican artist Paloma Contreras Lomas, as well as several group exhibitions like La Casa erosionada and Agua que Quema.
Karla has been invited as a jury at multiple art fairs and projects and has served as a courier for exhibitions on Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo at LACMA, the Whitney Museum of Art,, SFMOMA, and the Brooklyn Museum.
