Alivé Piliado

Alivé Piliado-Santana is a curator, arts administrator, and writer working between Chicago and Mexico City. She is Curatorial Associate at the National Museum of Mexican Art as part of the Advancing Latinx Art in Museums initiative, supported by the Ford, Getty, Mellon, and Terra Foundations. Previously, she was Research Associate in Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she co-curated Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds. Her curatorial practice explores modern Mexican art and contemporary Latinx artists, engaging with diaspora, migration, identity, and transnational aesthetics.