Ionit Behar

Ionit Behar is the Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Previously, Behar was Curator at DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, where she organized solo and group exhibitions including Alice Tippit: Rose Obsolete (2026); Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: A Want for Nothing (2025); Selva Aparicio: In Memory Of (2024); Life Cycles: DePaul Art Museum Collection (2023); A Natural Turn: María Berrío, Joiri Minaya, Rosana Paulino, and Kelly Sinnapah Mary (2022); Solo(s): Krista Franklin (2022); Claudia Peña Salinas: Quetzalli (2021); and LatinXAmerican (2021). Recent independent projects include Del Otro Lado (2023) at O’Hare International Airport; 50 años (marking 50 years since the military coup in Uruguay) (2023) at SUBTE, Montevideo; and Nelly Agassi: No Limestone, Nor Marble (2022) at the Chicago Cultural Center. She previously served as Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at Spertus Institute, Chicago, and as a Research Assistant for Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium at the Art Institute of Chicago. Behar holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an M.A. in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Tel Aviv University.