Associate Professor María Iñigo Clavo

María Iñigo Clavo is a researcher, curator, and Associate Professor at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), where she serves as a lecturer and coordinator for the Fine Art Degree in collaboration with the Reina Sofía Museum. From there, she has committed herself to open knowledge by editing Open Access learning resources through two spaces: Curatorial Studies and Critical Heritage (written by women authors from Spain and Latin America) and Overflows: Art and Politics of Social Unrest (on mental health). She has been a lecturer on various MA programmes such as Curating Art and Public Programmes at Whitechapel Gallery in London, the University of São Paulo, Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London), and the University of Essex.

Her research focuses on processes of resistance and agency towards the persistence of colonial power relations and their genealogies in history. She has worked specifically on Brazil and more generally within the Latin American context and its representation of history through curating and museology. From this perspective, she participates in the reflection on the decolonisation of museums in Brazil, Spain, and Italy through her theoretical and practical work, such as the curation of the intervention in the permanent collection of the Museum of Ethnology and World Cultures of Barcelona by the artist Pamela Cevallos and the artists artisans from the Museo Comunitario de la Pila (2024), or the collaboration with the artist Maria Thereza Alves for the Museo delle Civiltà in Rome (2026).

Since becoming a mother in her forties, she has travelled less and has begun to apply this perspective to the Spanish context in a research exhibition for the Sorolla Museum entitled ‘Before the Leap’ (February 2027) with Olga Fernández López, reflecting on the themes that the famous Impressionist painter addressed from a contemporary perspective through contemporary artists: the patrimonialisation of popular culture, subjugated popular knowledge, tourism, ruralities, and national identities, among others. From this perspective, she was the editor of the journal Art in Translation, at the University of Edinburgh (Taylor & Francis/Routledge) in 2021.

She has been the curator of the Leandre Cristòfol Biennial in Catalonia on extractivism (La Panera Art Centre, 2025), which includes a section on ecofeminism. This was also the main theme of Gabriela Bettini’s solo exhibition (Da2, Salamanca, 2026). She has written publications for media outlets such as e-flux journal (NY), Artforum, Third Text, Afterall, the Centre Pompidou, Stedelijk Museum Journal, the Museum of Art of São Paulo (MASP), and the Reina Sofía Museum, among others. She is co-editor of the book published by University College London (UCL Press), Unmaking to Make: Art as decolonising practice in Latin America’s future, past and present, with her colleagues Alex Ungprateeb Flynn, Beatriz Lemos, and Florencia Portocarrero.