Claudia Zaldívar

Claudia Zaldívar is an art historian and a specialist in cultural policies. She is currently the Director of the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende and was Director of the Galería Gabriela Mistral (gGM), of the Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes (CNCA), Chile (2002 – 2010). Among other exhibitions, she has organized Juan Downey: Instalaciones, Dibujos y Videos, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile (1995); JAAR/SCL/2006, Sala de Arte Telefónica – gGM, Santiago, Chile (2006); Chille by Yoshua Okón (2009) and Made in Chile by Josep-Maria Martín (2010), both in gGM. She has coordinated international colloquia such as Arte y Política, together with Nelly Richard and Pablo Oyarzún (2004); and Utopia(s), Culture Area of the Ministry of Education, Santiago, Chile (1993). Editor of the exhibition catalogs at the Galería Gabriela Mistral (2002-2010); co-editor of Arte y Política, CNCA, Chile (2005); editor of the catalogue raisonné Museo de la Solidaridad Chile (2013); and co-editor of the catalogue raisonné Museo Internacional de la Resistencia Salvador Allende 1975-1990, together with Caroll Yasky, among others. In 1991 she carried out the research Museo de la Solidaridad, her bachelor’s degree thesis for Theory and History of Art at the Universidad de Chile.