Marina Reyes Franco

Marina Reyes Franco is the Curator at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC). Her recent exhibitions include Tropical is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime, at Americas Society, MAC, and Mead Museum; El momento del yagrumo, at MAC; Resisting Paradise, at Pública, San Juan, and Fonderie Darling, Montreal; Watch Your Step / Mind Your Head, at ifa-Galerie Berlin; and La 2da Gran Bienal Tropical in Loíza. At MAC, she has led the commissioning of works inside and outside the museum by Daniel Lind Ramos (co-curated with Marianne Ramírez Aponte), Ad Minoliti, Tony Cruz Pabón, Eliazar Ortiz Roa, Julianny Ariza, and La Vaughn Belle. She has also contributed to the expansion of the museum’s collection through acquisitions of pieces by Esvin Alarcón Lam, Natalia Ortega, Dave Smith, Ricardo Cabret, Sofia Gallisá Muriente, Michael D. Linares, and Gwladys Gambie, among others.

In 2010, alongside Gala Berger, she co-founded the La Ene project in Buenos Aires, which she directed until 2014. As curator and researcher, she has focused on Esteban Valdés’ work, artistic and literary manifestations bordering on political action, and the impact of tourism on Caribbean cultural production.

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