Alivé Piliado

Alivé Piliado-Santana is a curator, arts administrator, and writer working between Chicago and Mexico City. She currently serves as the ALAM Curatorial Associate at the National Museum of Mexican Art and is part of the curatorial cohort for the national initiative Advancing Latinx Art in Museums. Her previous institutional roles include serving as a Research Associate in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. There, she co-curated Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds (2025) and contributed to the research and catalogue for Remedios Varo: Science Fictions (2023). In Mexico City, she was a curator at the Museo Nacional de San Carlos and oversaw the 20th-century collection at the Museo Nacional de Arte. Her curatorial work has also extended to exhibitions on modern Mexican art in Argentina, Chile, and France. Her current practice engages with contemporary Latinx artists whose work resists fixed narratives of transnationalism and instead navigates the aesthetics and politics of diaspora, identity, language, migration, and nostalgia.