Marisol Rodríguez, México

lives and work between Mexico City and Paris

She’s a Cultural journalist, curator, independent researcher, editor and co-founder of the publishing house Mono Ediciones.

Currently she is a freelance collaborator for Confabulario, the cultural supplement of El Universal newspaper in México, Letras Libres and other printed and web outlets in México and abroad.

She is an independent researcher of Mexican cultural history and she applies social sciences and cultural studies to Mexican comics from the 1970s. She has presented her research on the topic in specialized conferences in universities such as Birkbeck, University of London, University of London Institute in Paris and King’s College in London.

She holds a BA in Design from the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico City and an MA in Culture, Criticism and Curation from Central Saint Martins, London.

She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics, AICA since 2011.

Curated exhibitions

05/06 2006: Co-Curator. Eastern Alliance 3 / Teledivision Show, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest

06/08 2011: Co-Curator. Love from hell, Divus Prager Kabarett, Prague

06/08 2013: Curator. The Good, The Bad and The Sexy, Divus Prager Kabarett, Prague

12/2012 – 01/2013: Curator. The Story of The Story. Propaganda from Contemporary México, ART|SPACE, Prague.

08/09 2013: Curatorial Assistant to Kenneth Goldsmith. All The Films of People Like Us, Centro de Cultura Digital – Estela de Luz. México City.

08/2014: Curator. Made in Mexico: The Art of Polo Ralph Laurent by Taller de Exhibiciones Potenciales, Divus London, London.

11/2014: Co-Curator (as De Alofi a Port-Louis). <Hacia Adentro> by Diego Salvador Ríos, Galerie Cortex Athletico, Paris

11/2014 – 12/2014: Co-Curator and publisher. “There was an opening, the carpet was squishy” (Gallery House in London, 72-73), Flat Time House, London

06/2015 – 07/2015: Co-Curator. Art in the house: Space and the Avant-Garde, Goethe-Institut London

12/2015 – 02/2015: Curator. From here to eternity, Oliver Pietsch, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, México City

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