Ilaria Conti
Photo: Daria Paladino
Ilaria Conti is a member of the Advisory Board of the Onassis AiR 2021/22 OPEN CALL.
Ilaria Conti is an independent curator. Her work focuses on research-based practices engaging with systems of power, decolonial epistemologies, and the relationship between institutional infrastructures, communal care, and civic agency. Most recently, she served as Research Curator at the Centre Pompidou for Cosmopolis, a multiyear platform devoted to research-based art. Previously, she served as Exhibitions and Programs Director at Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) in Νew York, Assistant Curator of the 2016 Marrakech Biennale, and Samuel H. Kress Interpretive Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other positions. She holds a BA and MA in Art History and Curatorial Studies from Sapienza University of Rome and an MA in Visual Arts Management from Νew York University (NYU). Curated projects include ALT(ering) + SHIFT(ing) + COMM(uning) (2020), Prove di R(i)esistenza (2020), Making Space: Art & Generative Communal Practices (2020), Labor/Art/Auratic Conditions (2020), Cosmopolis #2: Rethinking the Human (2019), Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence (2018), Cosmopolis #1: Collective Intelligence (2017), 6th Marrakech Biennale: Not New Now (2016).
