Constanza Valenzuela (Quito, Ecuador b. 1995) is a curator and cultural worker dedicated to the representation of immigrant and Latine/X artists. Valenzuela is currently the Curatorial & Exhibitions Assistant at the High Line in New York City. The High Line is committed to showing curated exhibitions of contemporary public art that directly engage with cultural, social, and political currents. Constanza oversees the production and installation of public art installments on the High Line, along with adjacent programming. Previously, Constanza worked as the Programming Assistant for Creative Time, a public arts non-profit organization also in New York City. Constanza 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, she 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. Recent 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.
