Ionit Behar is the Curator at DePaul Art Museum (DPAM), Chicago. Recent exhibitions at DPAM are Selva Aparicio: In Memory Of (2024); Life Cycles: DePaul Art Museum Collection (2023); A Natural Turn: María Berrío, Joiri Minaya, Rosana Paulino, and Kelly Sinnapah Mary (2022); Solo(s): Krista Franklin (2022); Claudia Peña Salinas: Quetzalli (2021) and co-curated LatinXAmerican (2021). Recent independent projects include Del Otro Lado (2023) with BeharXSchachman (a large-scale public art project at O’Hare International); 50 años (50 years since the military coup in Uruguay) (2023) at SUBTE, Montevideo; Nelly Agassi: No Limestone, Nor Marble (2022) at the Chicago Cultural Center. Previously she was the Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at Spertus Institute, Chicago and Research Assistant for the exhibition Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium at the Art Institute of Chicago. Behar holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an M.A. in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute, and a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Tel Aviv University.
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