Teresa Riccardi

Bachelor of Arts, professor and doctoral candidate for Philosophy and Literature at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Between 2004 and 2007 she was an initial fellow for the project PICT 11294, directed by Dr. Andrea Giunta, granted by FONCYT-ANPCYT and in 2007-2009 she received a postgraduate scholarship from CONICET, directed by Gonzalo Aguilar. She was Co-creator of the Duplus collective with which she published El Pez, la bicicleta y la máquina de escribir. Un libro sobre el  encuentro de espacios y grupos de arte independientes de América Latina (2005). Some of her curatorial projects include Área de Servicios, CCR (2007), AAS: Agencia de Asuntos (Sub)tropicales, EAC, Montevideo (2012), MAC of Salta (2014), Ocupaciones raras, Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago de Chile (2014-2015), Tierra Caos y Germen. Colección Sívori, Museo Sívori (2017). In 2010-2014, she received a national subsidy and three consecutive scholarships granted by the argentine National Secretary of Culture and National Fund for the Arts for the magazine Blanco sobre Blanco, which she co-edited in Argentina with a group of women researchers and Doctors in Arts. In 2014-2016 she was Director of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, where she developed the Ellas curatorial axis dedicated to showcasing, visualizing and presenting the artistic practices of female artists throughout the whole year. In 2018 she participated in the TyPA Observatory for Socially Engaged Museums, organized by Fundación TyPA, and received a scholarship from the Getty Foundation to participate in the American Alliance of Museum’s Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo in Phoenix, Arizona. She has written numerous publications, participated in international congresses and acted as a jury in various prizes. She is currently the Director of the Museo Sívori in Buenos Aires.