Maya Juracán is a curator, writer, and researcher. Her practice centers on curating as a critical and community-based tool to think about art in dialogue with history, territories, and social dynamics, positioning art as a catalyst in the pursuit of human dignity. She has founded dissident projects such as Proyecto 44 and the Bienal En Resistencia, a self-organized biennial that takes over public space in Guatemala to support social resistance, and is co-creator of La Revuelta, a feminist curatorial collective in Central America committed to memory, advocacy, and community weaving.
Juracán has developed curatorial projects at institutions such as the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá and the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo de Costa Rica, and has been invited as a speaker at spaces including MoMA PS1 (New York), the University of Michigan, the Mayer Center at the Denver Art Museum, the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), and the Bergen Assembly. In 2024 she served as an advisor to the Creative Time Summit, an organization based in New York dedicated to contemporary public art. Her writings have been published by institutions and international platforms such as the Museo del Chopo (Mexico), Buchaca (Costa Rica), Brill’s Handbook Series in Memory Studies, as well as in editorial collaborations with PHAIDON, a renowned publishing house specializing in art, design, and visual culture.
She is currently the director of Galería MUY (Chiapas, Mexico), a space dedicated to Maya and Zoque artists, and continues to develop projects in community curating, writing, and critical pedagogy in dialogue with collective memory, territories, and processes of resistance.
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