Federica Baeza

Federica Baeza is Associate Professor of Art History and Curatorial Studies at Argentina’s National University of the Arts (Buenos Aires) where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in contemporary art, critical theory, and curation. Previously she was the Director of the Degree in Curatorial Arts and the University Extension area in the Trans-Departmental Area of ​​Arts Criticism of the National University of the Arts (UNA). She received her doctoral and undergraduate degrees in Art History & Theory from the Department of Art History at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Baeza is the recipient of major national fellowships, and her work has been supported by the National Arts Foundation (FNA), the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), and the University of Buenos Aires.

As a curator, Baeza has organized major exhibitions and executed museum programming in Argentina and across Latin America. Some of her recent exhibitions include Latin America: Back to the Future (MACBA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Buenos Aires, 2019), The Body of a Collection (Klemm Foundation, Buenos Aires, 2018), Oasis (arteBA, Buenos Aires, 2016), Doing with What's Done (MAMM, Museum of Modern Art, Cuenca, Colombia, 2015), Sovereignty of Use (OSDE Foundation, Buenos Aires, 2014), Construction of a Museum (MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rosario, Argentina, 2014), The End of Art (arteBA, Buenos Aires, 2014). She is the recipient of the arteBA and Adriana Hidalgo 2017 Critical Essay Award and, in 2014, she received First Prize in the Young Curators Program of arteBA and First Prize in the Macro 10th Anniversary Curators Contest. Baeza is the author and co-author of numerous monographs and peer-reviewed articles on visual arts. In her role as a curator and art historian, Baeza has also published multiple exhibition catalogs and articles on contemporary art in specialized magazines.