Leandro Martínez Depietri is an Argentine curator and writer based between Buenos Aires and San Diego. His work engages modern and contemporary art in Latin America, with particular attention to materiality, queer practices, translation, and the ongoing structures of internal colonialism in Argentina.
In 2025, he co-curated with Roberto Amigo the reinstallation of the permanent collection of Argentine art at the Colección Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, one of the country’s most significant private collections open to the public. He curated Chiachio & Giannone: Vivir sus vidas, the first comprehensive retrospective dedicated to the Argentine queer textile duo, and will present Continente oscuro at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires in 2026, examining the legacy of surrealism in the work of Argentine women and queer artists since the 1940s.
He served on the curatorial team of BIENALSUR 2021 – International Contemporary Art Biennial of South America, where he curated projects at the Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo (Buenos Aires), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario (MACRO), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (MAR), and Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, working with artists including Gabriel Chaile, Bernardo Oyarzún, Joël Andrianomearisoa, and La Chola Poblete. He also co-curated Después de Babel at MUNTREF–Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, a large-scale exhibition on translation as a worldmaking practice, with Marina Aguerre and philosopher Barbara Cassin.
He is the author of Putting Things on Black & White and has contributed to publications for the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
