Fabiana Puentes (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1986) is an independent curator, researcher, and professor specializing in contemporary art and critical perspectives. She holds a degree in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Arts (UdelaR) and postgraduate degrees in Feminist Art and Cultural Criticism, Gender Studies, and Methodologies for Social Research. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in Aesthetic Theory and Arts Management at the National University of La Plata, Argentina. She has received the FEFCA Training Incentive Fund and, on two occasions, the Competitive Funds for Culture (FCC).
She teaches in the Department of Aesthetics at UdelaR and has worked as an independent curator since 2022. She is currently working on the exhibition Eso que nos pasa en el pasado (That Which Happens to Us in the Past), which will open at the Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (EAC) in 2026. At the EAC, she has also participated in two editions of Sala Taller (Workshop Room), supporting the creative processes of artists in residence from Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil.
In 2025, she was selected for the Azafrán open call at the Spanish Cultural Center in Montevideo, aimed at independent curators, with Resonances from the Abyss: Artistic Practices Between Pressures and Strange Frequencies. In 2023, she co-curated It's Going to End, an exhibition about football and the civic-military dictatorship. That same year, she participated in the project Giro Gráfico: Rumors and Cries from the South.In 2022, she was part of the curatorial team for Games of Memory, an exhibition at the Montevideo Center for Photography held as part of MUFF.
