Inés Arango-Guingue is a Colombian curator, arts administrator, writer, and editor. Her research inclines toward art and philosophy that acknowledges the sociopolitical weight and power of the unknown, the opaque, and the illegible, while understanding ephemeral, performative, and educational practices as vehicles of these concepts. Her independent work takes performative lectures, pedagogical platforms, and interregional and intergenerational crossings as core elements to explore curatorial practice for and from Latin America.
Inés has organized and curated exhibitions at Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois in Chicago; the Mildred’s Lane Complex(ity) in Narrowsburg, New York; Museo del Banco de la República in Bogotá, among others. She was a curatorial resident at ACRE (Steuben, WI), Mildred’s Lane (Beach Lake, PA); Lugar A Dudas (Cali, Colombia); and Instituto Superior de las Artes (Havana, Cuba). She was a 2023 Art Table fellow and a 2022 Abakanowicz fellow at SAIC’s Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice. She is also 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. Recently, she co-curated Learning Together: Art Education and Community at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Gallery 400, a major exhibition centering the progressive art pedagogy of a diverse group of Chicago artist educators from the mid-1960s through the 2010s. She currently holds the position of Junior Curator at the Bogotá Modern Art Museum (MAMBO).
