Monica Amieva (Mexico City, 1980). Art historian and pedagogical curator. She has a doctorate in contemporary philosophy from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), a master's degree in contemporary art theory and a master's degree in philosophy from the same institution. Since 2019 she has been working as a researcher at the UNAM Institute of Aesthetic Research, in the line of contemporary art and its epistemological, pedagogical and educational dimensions. She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in contemporary art, aesthetics, museology and philosophy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB); the Iberoamerican University; SOMA and 17, Institute of Critical Studies, among others. At UNAM, he teaches the subject Artistic Research in the Ecology of Knowledge (in collaboration with José Miguel González Casanova) and the subject of Contemporary Curating and Museum Education, both in the Postgraduate course in Art History (Master's and Doctorate). Amieva also teaches the Museum Learning seminar in the Specialization in Museum Project Management, as part of the academic offer of the Faculty of Architecture.
She was pedagogical curator in the 4th edition of the BBVA Bancomer-MACG, at the Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art, where she created the Department of Educational Studies (DEE) and served as Deputy Director of Public Programs at the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC), where sher held the William Bullock Extraordinary Chair of Critical Museology, the Helen Escobedo Extraordinary Chair, Aesthetics, Politics and Critical Historiography of Contemporary Art in Mexico and America Latina and the Olivier Debroise Extraordinary Chair Images: devices, production and criticism. Amieva is currently a member of the Academic Councils of the Inés Amor International Chair in Cultural Management and the El Eco Experimental Museum.
She participated in the program of Tools for the cultural organization of the 31st São Paulo Biennial, at the Summer University DIY and Countercultures in the Era of Technical Reproducibility at the Pompidou Center and at the Independent Curators International's Curatorial Intensive in Manila. Her research and educational projects, focused on problematizing the social scope of art as education, have been supported by CONACYT, FONCA, Fundación Jumex, the Ministry of Public Education, the Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo (PAC), the Getty Foundation and the TyPA Foundation. Amieva is a founding member of the Platform for Art Education (PAE) and regularly contributes to art publications.
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