Julio García Murillo

Biography

Julio García Murillo is an art historian and curator based in Mexico City. His work explores the intersections of curatorial research, critical and art writing, and public programming, with a particular focus on recent historiography and radical contemporary practices.

He is currently Deputy Director of Public Programs at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), where he oversees academic, pedagogical, and sound-based initiatives. His projects include co-organizing the conferences Stories of the Blue Night: Sámi, P’urhépecha, and Ayuujk Art and Culture Forum (OCA Norway/MUAC, 2024); Digital Museum: Intelligences and Artifices (Fundación Telefónica/MUAC, 2024); and Unlearning the Modern (Tate/MUAC, 2022). He also coordinated the children’s book Tomar el museo y otros espacios (UNICEF/MUAC, 2023), and was writer and narrator of Gran Hotel Abismo, a podcast on critical theory and contemporary art (MUAC, 2020–2021). He is currently co-curating an exhibition at MUAC focused on the experimental and politically engaged collectives that emerged in Mexico during the 1970s.

As an independent curator, he is currently collaborating with Tijuana-born visual and sound artist Miguel Buenrostro—based in Berlin—on a project exploring sonic diasporas between ethnographic archives and contemporary sound practices. In 2023, the first public iteration of this project was presented under the title Saber a qué suena. Documentales de escucha y excesos sónicos (Casa del Lago, UNAM).

His writing has been published in books, academic journals, exhibition catalogues, and critical magazines.

Julio García Murillo, Deputy Director for Public Programs at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City, Mexico, has been awarded by Aimée Labarrere de Servitje.