Manuela Moscoso

Manuela Moscoso (she/her) is a curator and critical producer. Moscoso is the inaugural Executive Director of Center for Art Research and Alliances (CARA) in New York City. In her practice, Moscoso studies the process of artmaking and its effects in the world. Inspired by non-western form of thinking Manuela is researching different understandings of embodiment, porosity, kinship and digestion as a way to challenge western conception of the body and its relationships.  Manuela is part of the advisory committee of the Helsinki Biennial 22-23, and is the former curator of the Liverpool Biennial 2021 "The Stomach and The Port.” Until 2018, she was the Senior Curator at Tamayo Museo in Mexico City where she worked with artists such as Chimurenga, Nina Canell, Yael Davids, Trevor Paglen or Rashid Johnson. She co-founded and ran Zarigüeya, a programme that activates relations between contemporary art and the pre-Columbian collection of the Museo Casa del Alabado, Ecuador between 2014-2018. In 2014, she was the associate curator of the Bienal de Cuenca 12, in Ecuador, and previously  she was co-director of Capacete, a residency programme based in Brazil where she also co-ran the curatorial programme, Typewriter.