Amanda de la Garza

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid
Artistic Deputy Director

Amanda de la Garza (born 1981 in Mexico) lives and works in Madrid (ES). She is currently deputy artistic director at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (ES), and in 2025 was elected president of CIMAM for the period 2026 to 2028. From 2020 to 2024, she served as general director of visual arts and of the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) at UNAM, Mexico City (MX), one of the leading art museums in Latin America. Trained in curatorial studies, art history, anthropology, and sociology, she worked as associate curator at MUAC between 2012 and 2019, where she curated and coordinated more than thirty exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, including archival and monographic exhibitions of artists such as Harun Farocki, Hito Steyerl, Vicente Rojo, Jeremy Deller, Isaac Julien, Jonas Mekas, José Dávila, and Chantal Peñalosa. Her writing has been published in catalogues, books, and specialized art magazines. She has received the Emerging Curators Award at the Borders Biennial and several research grants and served on the board of ICOM Mexico from 2021 to 2024.

Amanda de la Garza will visit Austria on a curatorial exchange with Catapulta in March 2026.

Photo: Courtesy MUAC/UNAM