Santiago Villanueva

Santiago Villanueva is a curator and artist who lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has researched the development of Surrealism in Argentina, focusing particularly on the younger generation of artists in Buenos Aires. He directed the Amplified Influence Department at La Ene – Nuevo Museo Energía de Arte Contemporáneo. He curated “Bellos Jueves,” a program of artistic interventions at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires. Between 2016 and 2017, he developed the educational program at the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires. Together with Manuela Moscoso, he curated a retrospective of the Argentine artist Eduardo Costa at the Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico. In 2018, he participated in the “Collecting as Practice” program at the Delfina Foundation in London. Villanueva was a Rutherford Fellow at the Tate Modern, where he worked in the curatorial department from January to July 2018. As an artist, he has exhibited at Galería Isla Flotante (Buenos Aires, 2016–2018), Gallery Y (New York, 2015), the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (Paris, 2015), the CIFO - Cisneros-Fontanals Art Foundation (Miami, 2013), and at Galería Abate (2012–2014).