Marina Reyes Franco is ICI’s Curatorial Intensive Programs Manager. She is an independent curator and writer based in Puerto Rico and is part of La Gran Bienal Tropical’s organizing team. She previously served as Curator at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC) and, in 2010, co-founded La Ene in Buenos Aires, directing the institution until 2014.
Central to her curatorial practice is the examination of underrepresented histories and the ways in which tourism, colonial legacies, and economic conditions shape cultural production. Through research-driven exhibitions, collaborative projects, and artist commissions, she foregrounds critical perspectives on place, memory, and political imagination, with a focus on the Caribbean and its diasporas.
At MAC, she curated projects including Sunlight on the Sea Floor (co-curated with Paula Naughton), Puerto Rico Negrx (co-curated with María Elena Ortiz), El momento del yagrumo, and Tropical Is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime (organized with Americas Society), as well as artistic commissions by Daniel Lind Ramos, Sofía Córdova, Tony Cruz Pabón, Julianny Ariza, La Vaughn Belle, Ulrik López Medel, and Eliazar Ortiz Roa.
As an independent curator, she has organized exhibitions internationally, including Resisting Paradise at Publica, San Juan, and Fonderie Darling, Montreal; Watch your step / Mind your head at ifa-Galerie Berlin; La Gran Bienal Tropical (2016 and 2025), Puerto Rico; C32: Sucursal at MALBA in Buenos Aires; and numerous exhibitions at La Ene. She is an alum of the Center for Curatorial Leadership, and contributes frequently to exhibition catalogues and collaborates with San Juan 721, an artist residency in Puerto Rico.
