AAC Ambassadors

Amy is an accomplished professional in the field of cultural management and the art market, with a rich academic background and extensive experience. She holds a degree in Arts with a concentration in Cultural Management and a minor in Photography from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota. Her academic journey continued with a Master's in Curatorial Practice from Bath Spa University in England, and another Master's in Art and Culture Management from the Rome Business School. Amy's career is marked by her diverse roles across galleries, fairs, museums, and independent art spaces, where she has consistently demonstrated her expertise. She has played a pivotal role in the development of art exhibitions, events, and various cultural projects, collaborating with numerous stakeholders in the cultural field. As a curator, she has organized several exhibitions in both Colombia and the UK. In addition to her curatorial work, Amy is the creator of the platform "Iridiscente," dedicated to supporting emerging artists and designers, showcasing her commitment to fostering creativity and innovation in the art world. Currently, she serves as one of the curators and the Operations Coordinator at The Art Dome

New York based artist Bipasha Hayat, working across drawing, painting, installation and other various medium, inspired by her upbringing in Libya and the surrounding remnants of Ancient Roman civilization. Her work uses a unique and personal artistic language that draws from her own life, memories, realizations and subconscious. She is a fellow artist of NYFA IAP 2022-23 and Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts’ fellow artist in 2023; and exhibited in groups in many galleries and museums around the world, including in solo presentations in Bengal Gallery Dhaka, Gallery Chitrak Dhaka Art Summit 2016, 3B Gallery Rome, LVS Gallery Seoul and Transform Gallery New York.

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Georgina Koutifari- Magklara is a dynamic and visionary curator known for her unique approach to curating art exhibitions. While her educational background lies outside the traditional realm of art history, Georgina's passion for art and her natural talent for curation have propelled her to the forefront of the contemporary art scene. Growing up in a multicultural environment, Georgina developed a deep appreciation for the arts from an early age. She pursued a degree in Art and Cultural management as well as in Curatorial studies, fascinated by how art reflects and influences society. Her interdisciplinary education gave her diverse perspectives and a keen understanding of cultural dynamics. Through extensive travel and immersive experiences in different artistic communities worldwide, Georgina honed her curatorial sensibilities. She developed an innate ability to identify creative talent and meaningful connections between works of art. Her unconventional background gives her a fresh perspective, allowing her to approach curatorial projects with a unique blend of sociological insight and artistic intuition. Georgina's curatorial style is characterized by her focus on thematic narratives and exploring social, political, and cultural issues. She strives to curate exhibitions that provoke dialogue, challenge established norms, and foster a deeper understanding of the human experience. Drawing from various artistic mediums, Lisa creates immersive and thought-provoking exhibitions that resonate with audiences of all backgrounds. Beyond her role as a curator, Georgina actively engages with local communities and grassroots art initiatives, aiming to promote accessibility and inclusivity within the art world. She collaborates with artists, community organizations, and educational institutions to organize workshops, panel discussions, and public art projects, encouraging broader participation and engagement with the arts. Georgina's innovative approach and dedication to breaking down barriers have garnered her recognition and respect within the art community. Her exhibitions have received critical acclaim for their ability to transcend traditional boundaries and bring forth compelling narratives that resonate on a societal level. With her unique perspective, passion for art, and commitment to social awareness, Georgina Magklara continues to challenge the status quo and redefine the role of the curator in the contemporary art world. Her ability to bridge disciplines and ignite meaningful conversations through art establishes her as a trailblazer in the field, inspiring both artists and audiences.

Katerina Gnafaki is a cultural manager, and independent curator. As an arts professional she has worked for many years in the production of contemporary art exhibitions like the Berlin Biennale, documenta14 and Athens Biennale. As an independent cultural worker she has headed a wide roster of public programs in music and sound-related practices and has collaborated with Syros International Film Festival (GR), Akademie der Kunste (DE), Ars Electronica (AU), Heroines of Sound (DE), Fête de la Musique (GR), transmediale festival for art and digital culture (DE), Onassis STEGI (GR) and Impakt Festival (NL). In 2020–2021 she was curating the sound programming at Centrum, a contemporary project space in Berlin. Between 2020-2022 she worked as a Freelance Exhibition Manager for Tactical Tech and collaborated with HAU Hebbel am Ufer (DE), Deutsches Technikmuseum (DE), MOD (AU) and OBA Oosterdok (NL) for various exhibitions. She was the co-founder of Nature Loves Courage Festival (2019–2024), a boutique festival for experimental club music in Crete.

Faisal M. Khan is an A&R, curator and music journalist. He founded the informal artist network Dhaka Electronica Scene as well as Akaliko Collective and the label Akaliko Records. Khan has contributed to publications like Border Movement, The Independent, Vice and Norient. With a focus on electronica, Khan advocates for cultural capital and develops capacity building programs for the youth. He produces music under the aliases The B Regiment and Dhaka Dub Hierarchy. Currently he is pursuing a masters in Media Management at The New School in New York City.

Krishna Brahmania is a multidisciplinary artist born in Regina and based in Regina, Saskatchewan. She is completing her BFA from University of Regina. Her practice focuses primarily on drawing and painting. She draws inspiration from her childhood fondness of tearing, cutting and pasting the papers,surroundings and green plants. She explores theme of spaces and human forms juxtaposing with color and composition.

Louise Lane Calicda, MA, MBA, is committed and spirited cultural manager with over ten years of experience in development work in arts and culture. Specializing in development programs for Philippine visual arts and the creative industries. As an educator, she co-creates an innovative learning environment together with the art managers of the next generation. She earned her bachelors degree in Art Studies at the University of the Philippines with latin honors. She also earned her first masters degree in art studies in the same university. She recently graduated from her second masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan under the Young Leaders Program of the Ministry of Education (MEXT) as a scholar of the Japanese government. During this time, she participated in two international exchange program: Global Network for Advanced Management in Berlin, Germany and Doing Business in Asia in Japan-China-South Korea

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Museologist and Art Historian, since 2016 works as freelance as audience analyst, audience engager and fundraiser for Cultural and Heritage Industries. He has founded two not for profit and actively cooperate at international level with not-for-profit, public administrations, industries, companies and local communities as project manager, networking manager and fundraiser

Cuban art Curator based in Detroit. Founder and CEO of Colon Cultural. A program of artist residencies for artists and curators interested in working with peripheral communities and social groups.

Cox's Bazar based artist, working as art facilitator in development sector. Had experience in non-formal education, Community art, community filmmaking, exhibition curation, art facilitation, documentation and research.

I am an art historian, writer, and independent curator based in Glasgow. I earned my doctorate in the Italian Renaissance from the National Institute for Renaissance Studies and later completed my master's degree in Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) at the Glasgow School of Art and the University of Glasgow. My main interests revolve around the political role of art. My practice delves into the relationship between technology and society, as well as the role of food in the socio-political economy. I am the leading curator of the Food Sovereignty Network based at the University of Glasgow and a permanent curator at the Almanacco Migratorio art residency.

Do Tuong Linh is a curator, art researcher, writer based between Hanoi (Vietnam) and New York City (United States). Linh holds a BA in Art History and theoretical criticism from Vietnam University of Fine Arts and a MA in Contemporary Art and Art Theory of Asia and Africa at SOAS (University of London). UK with the prestigious Alphawood scholarship. She is a part of Bard Curatorial Studies program class of 2025 and is part of the curatorial team of 12th Berlin Biennial. Linh has engaged in various art exhibitions and projects in Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Europe and beyond since 2005. She is a fellow researcher for Site and Space in Southeast Asia – a research project run by the Power Institute, University of Sydney, Australia funded by Getty Image Foundation, USA. She participated in many international cultural arts programs such as Asia Cultural Council research fellowship 2023, Ljubljana Graphic Art Biennial 2019, Slovenia; Association of Art Museum Curators conference, New York, USA; Mekong Cultural Hub 2018 – 2019, Taiwan; CIMAM International Museum Workshop 2018, Oslo, Norway; Asia Culture Center (Gwangju, Korea) 2018; Tate Intensive 2018, Tate Modern Museum, UK; French Encounter at Art Basel in Hong Kong 2018. … Some of her notable curated exhibitions include Citizen Earth 2020 (Hanoi, Vietnam), The Foliage 3 (VCCA, Vincom Center for Contemporary Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam) 2019, Geo-Resilience of the All-world at La Colonie (Paris, France) 2018, No War, No Vietnam exhibition at Galerie Nord (Berlin, Germany) 2018, SEAcurrents (London, UK) 2017.

Introducing WillYum LaBeija - a multi-talented artist hailing from North Carolina and currently based in Seattle. WillYum has an impressive background serving in the US Army as a dance captain in the Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) Soldier Show. With extensive training in both classical and urban dance styles, WillYum has developed a particular passion for vogue performance. Since 2011, he has been a proud member of the Royal House of LaBeija. WillYum has received numerous awards and recognitions for his exceptional talent, including the Dance Disability Lab Cohort UCLA 2023, 3Arts Body's of Work UIC fellowship, National Veterans Art Summit 2019 residency, Movement Residency Brazil/Panama 2019/2020, Links Hall Co-Missions Winter Residency 2019, Physical Theatre Residency in Austria 2019/2020, New International Performing Arts Institute Residency 2020, Neighborhood Arts Entrepreneurship Project-Task force member 2020, Ways Residency 2020, Global Water Dances Choreographer/Site Lead 2019/2020, and Breaking Grounds Performance Series 2018.

Anelia Andonova is independent art historian producing various historical studies for public and private commissions. Her academic background (MA) is focused on contemporary European art, with particular highlight on the relationships between art and technology. Her personal interests encompass questions about identity, transculturalism, the subconscious and transhumanism. Founder and active participant at the Acting Company « Polymorphose ». She’s currently living and working in Orleans, France.

Hu Yue (胡悦) is a visual art practitioner, curator, educator, and translator who currently conducts practice-based PhD research at the University of Plymouth, UK. Her research is titled with ‘Humanscape’ in Geopoetics- Visual Diagnoses of Reclaimed Landscape. She is interested in the dynamic counterbalance between humans and nature as well as its consequences under environmental and climate change contexts. After completing her MA in Documentary Photography at the University of Westminster, UK, she has worked as a collection researcher and curator at A4 Art Museum and Yuz Museum Shanghai.

I am a curator and independent researcher currently based in Tunis, Tunisia. My curatorial practice investigates the relationship between humans and nature to initiate new discussions and imagine alternatives for our contemporary era. With a keen interest in clothes as a medium in artworks, I have created an online page that depicts and curates artworks where clothing serves as a medium.

Okkar Moe @ Carlos Moore (Yangon, 1997) is a graduate of Architecture (2019), currently working in a field of Visual Art. With a background from Architecture and their enthusiasm and love for Art and Fashion, they study and explore the historical, cultural and social-political contexts including the interrelation between these subjects. They have always been interested in exhibitions, displays and the context of making them ever since they were an undergrad student. Moreover, they have been planning to pursue a master degree in Curatorial Studies.

Dina Boswank is an artist, writer and researcher. Recently she had worked in two artistic research projects based at HbK Braunschweig and Bauhaus-University Weimar (2016-19) titled „Throwing Gestures: Protest, Economy and the Imperceptible“ and „Imaginary Fitness“. A persistent focus of her interest is the research into sonic feedbacks and the meaning of radio as a tool to handle communicational secrets (like human dreams conclude to fairy tales far easier than to conspirancy theories). She holds a Diploma in Media Arts from Hfg/ZKM Karlsruhe (2009). Currently she is resuming her work at Museum Utopie und Alltag in Eisenhüttenstadt, that took place in 2022/23 and engages in part-time teaching with an Art class at a public school. She still is a member of the C3 (Codes, Creativity and Community) programme at the Goethe-Institute Bangalore/ZKM Karlsruhe and fosters collaborations to activate and assemble research material working with the letters of a failed inventor (G.D. Naidu), who destroyed his planned radio factory in Southern India,1948.

An accomplished author of history and cultural heritage with extensive experience in museum curation, public administration, anthropology, research, HR, archives/documentation, and other related fields. I am a self-motivated and result-oriented individual with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, who works well both individually and in a team setting. My passion for preserving and promoting cultural heritage has led me to be a successful curator at the Koitaleel Samoei Mausoleum Museum.

Born and raised in La Paz, Bolivia. Graduate in psychology with honors from the Bolivian Catholic University "San Pablo". Experience in the area of ​​art curation since 2018. Co-managed and curated in her own art space in 2021, with funding from the city council. Participated in the workshop for emerging curators within the framework of the Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2022. In 2023 lived in Barcelona, ​​Spain. Currently resides in her hometown, working on independent projects and a book.

With a strong foundation in collaborating with artists, art galleries, and creative institutions, I have curated and organized numerous exhibitions and events over the last years. From 2017 to 2019, I embarked on a journey to explore creative and artistic ecosystems in various locations, enabling me to engage in international work in countries such as New Zealand, the United States, Canada, and Israel/Palestine. As a curator, my focus lies in the exploration of the intricate connections between art, urban environments, gentrification, community dynamics, political influences, and economic factors.

Amy has been involved in sharing scientific details of the natural world through art and performance for over 10 years. Her personal research passions lie in human spatial navigation and her recently completed medical neuroscience studies have deepened her understanding in the beauty of existence and provided a foundation in the subject most interesting to share. Her interest in facilitating citizen science has led to event planning in organisations such as UNESCO, Hacking Health Berlin, and educational theatres in the UK and Hong Kong. EDGE Neuroscience & Art events combine her research interests, fascination with the beauty of the nervous system, and passion for sharing neuroscientific concepts with all who will lend an ear! She works as a freelance neuroscience communication consultant, fusing creativity and design with scientific marketing and communication. She is currently a speaker for the MIND Foundation Art Section and with EDGE, she aims to foster a community of creatives and enable the conception and production of artworks which inspire curiosity and understanding of neuroscientific topics.

MA in Visual Arts IUAV University of Venice + Master in Economics and Management of Arts and Cultural Eritage at 24 Ore Business School of Milan. Experience in organization of cultural events and customer support.

Bruno Badaró, Brazilian visual artist, embarked on his journey at the age of 12, leaving his mark in the city through graffiti tags. Over time, he refined his canvas artistry, starting with acrylics and progressing to the distinctive expression of spray paint and oil. His artistic palette aims to incorporate fragments of nature, conveying his truths and perspectives of the world around him.

Congolese-born Chadrack Kakule is a curator working across the themes of non-extractive curatorial practices, the reproduction of culturally oppressive systems in Africa, decolonial thinking, and the reappropriation of discourse on contemporary art from Africa. With a background in philosophy, he is interested in interpreting the coloniality of artistic and cultural discourse. In January 2022, he joined the Centre d'Art Waza in Lubumbashi, where he worked on research, archival, exhibition, and mediation projects. He has participated in various curatorial and educational programs, including the Independent Curators International (ICI) Curatorial Intensive in Kampala, Uganda (2022), the Ecole du soir (Lubumbashi working group) and the Zeitz Mocaa and The University of The Western Cape Museum Fellowship program . He also participated in Documenta Fifteen as a member of the Waza Art Centre and the Another Roadmap Africa Cluster network.

After completed BA in Media Arts from Royal Holloway, University of London (2010) and received her MLitt in Modern and Contemporary Art focusing on curatorial practice from Christie’s Education, University of Glasgow (2011), Haisang started her career in an art field as a research assistant on abstract paintings for her father, Assoc. Professor Kade Javanalikhikara whom she has been a representative ever since. In 2012, she started working at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre as a full-time staff and a freelancer until 2018. Haisang graduated Doctor of Fine Art from Faculty of Fine and Applied Art, Chulalongkorn University in year 2018, in which from May 2019, she has been a full-time lecturer there as well as a director of the faculty’s gallery and creative space called Art4C. In addition, Haisang is a founder and editor-in-chief of a multimedia e-magazine called Teleaesthetics (teleaesthetics.net) which was a part of her doctorate thesis. Occasionally, she takes part as project-based art and cultural curator.

Danilo Fortunato is a curator and cultural entrepreneur, has been involved in several private and institutional artistic projects, highlighting his involvement with the gallery This Is Not A White Cube, EMERGE project PEA - Portuguese Emerging Art 2019, CCBA, Banco BFA art consulting, BAI Arte 18th Edition, Flying House - Lisbon, Unitel Estrelas ao Palco, Pés Descalços Colectivo Cultural and many others, as well as co-production, artistic direction and curatorship of several projects.

Ekaterina Skorokhodova is an independent curator and a doctoral researcher working in the intersection of contemporary art, politics, critical and gender theory. After studying political science in the Russian Federation, she moved to Paris in 2009 and studied art history with a focus on contemporary fine art and photography. She then completed an MBA in Art Management in 2016 and worked for Parisian art galleries of contemporary art. From 2018 to 2020, she participated in the international interdisciplinary academic seminar-based program MA Curating at Aarhus University in Denmark and worked as a curator assistant-intern at Kunsthal Aarhus under the artistic direction of Jacob Fabricius. She is currently undertaking doctoral candidate in art history at University Paris-Nanterre in international co direction with University of Applied Arts Vienna. The tittle of her PhD dissertation is « Four female or feminist strategies in Swedish photography 1970-2000: Agneta Ekman, Eva Klasson, Tuija Lindström, Annika von Hausswolff ». As an independent curator, she develops exhibition projects based on contemporary photography with a steady emphasis on emerging female artists. She is currently serving as a jury member for Black&White Photography Award 2023

Judith Le Roux was born in Córdoba, Argentina, and has a Bachelor Degree in Graphic Design and a Bachelor in Photography. She has completed courses, workshops, seminars and clinics in contemporary art, photography, design, photo books, curatorship, art writing, community management and marketing. She completed an artistic residency in Chile in 2012. She has held group and solo exhibitions in galleries and museums in Cordoba, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Spain (Madrid, Marbella and Valencia), Germany and Poland, Scotland, Italy and China (Hangzou and Quindao) since 2005 until now. Awards and recognitions: Finalist of the “Olot Fotografía” Grant.Her work was selected for the International Design Biennial of Peru (2021) and for II MAKMA International Poster Award “Orden/ Desorden” in Spain. She was a finalist of the “Marina González Lucchini Salón de Mujeres”, Museo Bonfiglioli, Argentina. She was the winner of the design contest ""Mi vie en Rose"" of the Costume Museum in Madrid, Spain. She received an honorable mention in photography in the “Fundación Lebenshon” Buenos Aires, Argentina, was selected for the ""Itau Cultural Prize"", Argentina. She participated in several contests and festivals. Publications: Working Artists III, Marika Magazine, Float Magazine and Bex Latinoamérica magazines, and in “Corona libro 2” (Corona Book 2) from Mexico. In addition, she has a long experience in activities related to writing art texts, curating and organizing exhibitions in galleries, museums and festivals. She has also designed for artists, galleries and museums for more than fifteen years. She was a member of ""Awita"" (The Association of Women in the Arts) from London until 2023.

Sustainable fashion and textile designer, community craft facilitator

Malvika Jha is a contemporary artist who works primarily with performance, imagemaking, and experimental video. She finds inspiration in absurd renditions of residual memory. She sees making as a form of active research. Her work seeks subversion of her immediate reality via interventions in visual perception. Her subject matter is her shadow self and her past explorations have been impulse-driven. Now, she seeks to shift gears to a slower intentional engagement. She recognizes, intensifies, and engages with the immediate realities presented to her. Her relationship with her shadow self remains ever evolving as she integrates and accepts it through modalitites of creating art.

independent researcher, curator and writer, Lorena focus her professional work on contemporary art, archives and performance art. Graduate of the Master in Communication Arts and Sciences at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and one of the founders of the association Colapso.pt in Lisbon. In recent years Lorena have directed her interest to the study of the intersections between fictions and reenactments in performance art, as well as the effects of the rewriting of its documentation and the unarchiving of the body.

Contemporary art historian interested in critical art, it's deployment and limits - art that criticises and / or aims to change existing sociopolitical and ideological coordinates.

Leah Valle is an artist and a visual ethnographer from Southern Mindanao, Philippines. Her main medium is photography. She is also the founding artist of Rm. 74, an alternative creative incubator that started in Davao City where she collaborates and independently curates with different artists, creatives, organizations, and communities. She has a degree in Philosophy from Ateneo de Davao University and ha earned her Masters in Arts in Photography at Savannah College of Arts and Design.

My artistic work concerns the promotion of my mathematical (re-)discovery: the 3D representation of the Penrose Kite & Darts Tiling (Epitahedron, E±) that turned out to be Plato’s 5th element & the development of a 3D animated hyper-Euclidean geometry for the 1st visualization of the infinite 5- respectively 10-dimensional space during my QUANTUM CINEMA project with Peter Weibel funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF /PEK) I work in different media, from video art works presented at As Electronica Linz, or f.e.“Gaia 5.0” at the Bozar in Brussels and Kunsthaus mürz; or as spatial installation (e.g. in the ASIFA Room in the Museums Quartier Vienna), currently producing sculptures during my residency at PREFA and NEUMAN Aluminum in Marktl (AT). My philosophical hermeneutic research includes contemporary arts, art history, archaeology, architecture, design and philosophy as well as natural sciences. In the scientific context I participated with lectures and poster presentations at mathematics conferences ( f.e. ICM Seoul 2014) and quantum physics conferences; f.e. 2018 I received first prize in the Entropy Best Poster Award for my visualization of unified theories at the Linnaeus conference in Sweden. - I write also chapters for artist’s books and art reviews (f.e. for artmagazine.cc)

independent researcher, curator and writer, Lorena focus her professional work on contemporary art, archives and performance art. Graduate of the Master in Communication Arts and Sciences at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and one of the founders of the association Colapso.pt in Lisbon. In recent years Lorena have directed her interest to the study of the intersections between fictions and reenactments in performance art, as well as the effects of the rewriting of its documentation and the unarchiving of the body.

Multidisciplinary artist graduted in Fine Arts by University of Basque Country, Postgraduated /Ma Studies at University of London, Goldsmiths´College .Visited RijsAkademie Amsterdam for Work Presentation. Residence in Italy. Associate proffessor at Basque Country University Faculty of Fine Arts at Basque Country University .Initiated in painting, she soon became interested in sculpture that investigated the function of everyday objects, their constructive capacity, and their redefining and interpretive power in variable contexts. The interest in manufactured products and the icons of post-industrial society point to another avenue of work in which he introduces key elements such as spatiality and light, which are continued with the experimental use of new technologies in installations and performances in which he investigates in the relationships between the concept of formal culture, popular mass-media culture and virtual and posthuman environments. Currently lives and works in Bilbao

independent researcher, curator and writer, Lorena focus her professional work on contemporary art, archives and performance art. Graduate of the Master in Communication Arts and Sciences at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and one of the founders of the association Colapso.pt in Lisbon. In recent years Lorena have directed her interest to the study of the intersections between fictions and reenactments in performance art, as well as the effects of the rewriting of its documentation and the unarchiving of the body.