Constanza Valenzuela (Quito, Ecuador b. 1995) is a curator and cultural worker dedicated to the representation of immigrant and Latine/X artists. She is currently the Associate Curator at Powerhouse Arts, New York. Previously, Valenzuela was Curatorial & Exhibitions Assistant at the High Line, and Programming Assistant for Creative Time. She has a MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University (2019), and a BFA in Sculpture from Pratt Institute (2017).
Together with Jack Radley, Valenzuela is the co-founder of ACOMPI, a New York-based curatorial project that foregrounds interdisciplinary practice and collaboration to expand the intersection of independent curatorial practice and site-responsive public engagement. Projects include: Money Has No Smell (CUE Foundation); Ocultismo y barro (Miriam Gallery); Mariana Parisca: Corriente (Más Allá, Bogotá, Colombia); Mateo Arciniegas: Domingo a las 4 (PO Reinaldo Salgado Playground), Transient Grounds (Governors Island, NARS Foundation), Diana Sofia Lozano: Suspended in the Iris (Home Gallery), Shanzhai Lyric: Canal Street Research Association (327 Canal), and the colloquium What Can NYC Art Museums Do For Immigrants? at NYU Steinhardt. Their projects have been featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Artforum, Artnet, Elephant, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail, among other publications.
