Andrea Torreblanca

Biography

Andrea Torreblanca is the current director of the Tamayo Museum in Mexico City, where she recently curated Archaic Futures and co-chaired the forum Museum as Verb for the 2025 International Museums Day. She completed a Master’s in Curatorial Studies at CCS Bard College in New York from 2008 to 2010.

In 2018, Torreblanca was appointed Director of Curatorial Projects at INSITE. In her roles as director and chief editor curator, she conceived the INSITE Journal and developed INSITE Commonplaces, a curatorial platform operating in diverse regions worldwide, including Lima (Peru), Johannesburg (South Africa), and Baja California (Mexico–San Diego, US). This platform aims to rearticulate the notion of site specificity.

Her project The Sedimentary Effect investigates local microhistories based on erratic phenomena, architecture, and spiritual communities in the border region. Her most recent project and journal, A Timeless Way to Build, explored architect Christopher Alexander’s experimental housing project in Mexicali in 1975 through the perspective of one of its inhabitants: the artist Pastizal Zamudio, who lived in the complex in the 1990s.

In 2021, Torreblanca wrote and conceived Speech Acts, a play based on a 30-year INSITE archive, presented at the Museo Jumex. She has held several curatorial positions at Mexican institutions, including Associate Curator at the Museo Tamayo (2013–2015), Coordinator at the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (2010–2011), Deputy Director and Curator for the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art (2008–2010), and Collection Manager at the Museo de las Californias at CECUT (1998–2000).

Torreblanca has taught curatorial studies, museology, art practice, and theory at several Mexican universities. She has authored numerous essays and delivered lectures on the potential of museums and curatorial practice.

Andrea Torreblanca, Director of Tamayo Museum in Mexico City, Mexico, has been awarded by Eloisa Haudenschild.