Marina Reyes Franco

Marina Reyes Franco is an independent curator and writer based in Puerto Rico. She was previously the Curator at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC). She received a BA in Art History from the University of Puerto Rico and an M.A. in Argentine and Latin American Art History at IDAES-UNSAM in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2010, she co-founded La Ene, an itinerant museum and collection. Projects at MAC include MAR ADENTRO, Sunlight on the Sea Floor (an ICI traveling exhibition co-curated with Paula Naughton), Puerto Rico Negrx (co-curated with María Elena Ortiz), Liberar la luz (Liberating Light), Foreign in a Domestic Sense, and Tropical Is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime (in collaboration with Americas Society) and El momento del yagrumo, as well as artistic commissions by Daniel Lind Ramos, Sofía Córdova, Tony Cruz Pabón, Julianny Ariza, Ulrik López Medel, and Eliazar Ortiz Roa. As an independent curator, she developed Resisting Paradise, at Publica, San Juan and Fonderie Darling, Montreal; Watch your step / Mind your head, ifa-Galerie Berlin; The 2nd Grand Tropical Biennial in Loiza, Puerto Rico; Caliban, MAC in San Juan; C32: Sucursal, MALBA in Buenos Aires, and numerous exhibitions at La Ene. As curator and researcher, she is dedicated to creating exhibitions and leading collaborative projects that establish aesthetic relations between artists, history, and culture, often highlighting underrepresented histories. She has focused on the work of Esteban Valdés, artistic and literary manifestations on the frontier of political action, and the impact of tourism in cultural production in the Caribbean. She is an alumna of ICI's Curatorial Intensive and the Center for Curatorial Leadership.