Carmen Ferreyra

Ferreyra completed her MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies in Modern Art at Columbia University in 2013, which concluded with the submission of her thesis, Guerrilla Artists: Forging National Identity in Postwar Guatemala. She served as editor at Interventions, Columbia Curatorial Journal from 2012-2013, and in those two years she co-organized two symposia: Homeland Security: Borders and the Global Contemporary, about contemporary art and globalization, and Calle Tomada, about the role of the street in contemporary Latin American art. Ferreyra received her BA in Art History and French from Columbia University in 2010. She worked as Guest Researcher at the Study Center at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), summer 2012, and has conducted research for the Whitney Museum of American Art, El Museo del Barrio, and the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in New York. She was the manager of Pinta Art Show in London and New York for six years and the acquisition advisor for Mundus Novus Latin American Art Collection for three years. Ferreyra has curated several independent shows in Miami, New York and Buenos Aires and now works as an independent art advisor.