Fabiola Talavera

Biography

Fabiola Garza Talavera (Monterrey, Mexico, 1995) is a curator, writer, archivist, and cultural producer based in Mexico City. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Art Studies and History from Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana. During her university days, she coordinated the Juan José Gurrola archive and worked with the curator Chris Sharp on projects such as the 2018 exhibition Dwelling Poetically: Mexico City, a Case Study at ACCA, Melbourne, and New Zealand’s pavilion for the 2019 Venice Biennial.

She has worked for institutions such as the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes as a coordinator of international loans for exhibitions like The Paris of Modigliani and His Contemporaries and at Casa del Lago in Mexico City, working on exhibitions, publications, festivals, public talks, and inaugurating the Poesía en Voz Alta Archive and the exhibition room Resquicio, aimed at showcasing emerging Latin-American artists.

In 2024, she went on a residency to Canal Projects in New York City to research the topic of cultural assimilation of Latin-American artists currently working in that territory. She coordinated and curated six events broadcast live for Montez Press Radio in multiple venues in Mexico City and co-curated, along with Jo Ying Peng, the individual exhibition of Iranian-born, USA-based artist Roksana Pirouzmand, A Flame, A Rock, Between Two Mountains at Vernacular Institute, Mexico City.

In the present year, she took the position as Curator of the public museum Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City, where she curated Ná’ Reza [Broken Hand] the first institutional solo exhibition of Oaxaca-based artist Ana Hernández. She continues to collaborate with the non-profit Montez Press Radio.

Her writing has been published in books, exhibition catalogues and the magazines Art in America, Elephant and Tres Tres Tres.

Fabiola Talavera, Curator at Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City, Mexico, has been awarded by Aimée Labarrere de Servitje.