Diana Iturralde is the 2024 – 26 Cisneros Institute Research Fellow and a Ph. D. candidate in art history at Rutgers University. She specializes in modern and contemporary art from Latin America, and her dissertation work examines visual representations of cultural and environmental transformations in the Andean- Amazon region from the nineteenth century to the present. Diana is affiliated with the Andean-Amazonian Studies Working Group and the Environmental Humanities and Environmental Justice Working Group at Rutgers University. She has participated in the Center for Curatorial Leadership seminar and the Getty Foundation’ s The Amazon Basin as Connecting Borderland seminar from 2023 to 2025.
Miguel Keerveld is an independent curator, artist, and certified coach from Suriname. In collaboration with Readytex Art Gallery in Paramaribo, Suriname, his work intersects with curation, artistic research, art-producing, and writing. He is formally educated in civil engineering and subsequently undertook a social worker’ s program with specialization in coaching and counseling. For over a decade Miguel has been curating exhibitions, coordinating in- and outdoor events, and providing risk-based assessments for business processes as a certified ISO 9001 lead auditor in the position of director and founder of DEAM Advisory LLC.
NouN is a visual artist who lives and works between French Guiana and Paris, exploring several disciplines including painting, drawing, and photography. She was trained as an artist in Paris, where she also had her first solo exhibition, Dans les yeux, in 2019. In 2020 she joined the Art and Image Department of the École Kourtrajmé, run by the artist JR. She has participated in several group exhibitions in Paris, notably at the Centquatre-Paris and the Galleria Continua. In 2022, she and artist T2i created Manman Dilo, a multidisciplinary exhibition shown in French Guiana, Paris, and several cities in Brazil. Today, NouN continues to work on questions of body representation, the decolonized female gaze, and multiple identities.
Mateus Nunes is a curator, art critic, and researcher from the Brazilian Amazon, currently based in São Paulo. Nunes is an assistant curator at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo( MASP). He holds a Ph. D. in the history of art from the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and has completed postdoctoral fellowships in Amazonian studies at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador and in the history of art and architecture at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. His writings are frequently published in Artforum, ArtReview, Flash Art, Frieze, Mousse, and various specialized academic journals.
Luis Romero is a visual artist, cultural administrator, curator, and independent editor. Since 2016, he has been the codirector of ABRA in Caracas. From 1999 to 2010, he was the editor of Pulgar, where he also occasionally published work. From 2005 to 2015, he was the founder and director of Oficina # 1, an independent contemporary art space in Caracas. From 2013 to 2016, he was a member of the board of directors of TAGA( Taller de Artistas Gráficos Asociados) in Caracas. In 2007, he participated in documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany. From 2000 to 2004, he was the director of the artist residency program Fundación La Llama in Caracas. He has received the following awards: AICA Prize, Difusión del Arte Venezolano, for the research project ArchivoAbierto, Caracas( 2013); Orientation Trip Grant, Prince Claus Fund, Amsterdam( 2010); CIFO Grants & Commissions Program Award, Miami( 2008); UNESCO-Aschberg Bursary for Artists Residency at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam( 1995).
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