Magalí Arriola is a writer and curator based in Mexico City. For more than thirty years her projects have navigated the intersection of art and politics, championing how artistic practices reveal broader social, economic, and historical contexts. With an eye for critiquing institutional histories and revealing power structures in the afterlives of colonial and capitalist systems, Arriola’s multi-nodal initiatives such as A Place out of History, (2010/2018) and The Missing Circle(2017-2020) are long-term, episodical projects that challenge normative narratives and foster transnational dialogues. Through leadership at institutions such as Museo Tamayo in Mexico City (Director, 2019-2025), ArtBasel Miami (Meridians, 2019-2023), and KADIST collection in San Francisco and Paris (Lead Curator for Latin America, 2017-2020), she has consistently supported experimental practices that question how meaning is produced and disseminated in both local and global art circuits. Arriola was curator of the Mexican Pavillion at the 58 Venice Biennial (2019) and the 8th Panama Biennial (2008). Her exhibitions have been presented in institutions such as Museo Tamayo, Museo Jumex, MAM Medellín, MoMA PS1, SMAK, and Kunst Institute Melly (formerly known as Witte de With).