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Amara Antilla

Photo: Jesse Ly

Photo: Jesse Ly

Amara Antilla is an independent curator based in Washington DC. From 2019 to 2023 she was the Senior Curator at Large at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in Cincinnati, where she organized solo shows and new commissions by Marwa Arsanios, Hellen Ascoli, Tania Candiani, Kahlil Robert Irving, Steffani Jemison, Baseera Khan, Rit Premnath, and Tai Shani, among others. She curated and co-curated the group exhibitions Wild Frictions: The Politics and Poetics of Interruption (2021); The Regional (2022), Artist-Run Spaces (2022), and Breaking Water (2022). Previously, Antilla served as a curator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where she worked on numerous exhibitions and expanded the permanent collection through acquisitions. She also supported the research and exhibition program of the MAP Global Art Initiative and contributed to organizing various performances by artists including Slavs and Tatars, Alfredo Jaar, and Amalia Pica. Independently, Antilla co-organized the talks program of the Dhaka Art Summit (2017), the Getty-funded research intensive Connecting Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia (2020), and was guest curator of the IN/SITU section at EXPO Chicago (2024). She was the recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Fellowship, the Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Research Award (both 2022) and the Teiger Foundation Research Grant (2023). She studied art history at Tufts University, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY).