Carolina Arevalo

Carolina Arévalo is a curator and currently a second-year PhD student in the Department of Art History and Archeology at Columbia. Her research centers on the intersections between art, material culture, and archaeology, in South America, from the pre-Columbian period through the present. She is interested in exploring ancient technologies embedded in art and artifacts, examining how aesthetics and knowledge systems challenge fixed cultural distinctions. Her curatorial projects include more than a dozen exhibitions, including Resonaciones at ifa Galerie Stuttgart (2023–2024), Sheila Hicks: Reencuentro at the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino (2019–2020), and Soft Territories at Knockdown Center in New York (2019). Her research has been published, and she has also contributed to exhibition catalogues and edited volumes in Chile, Mexico, Spain, Germany, and the United States. Carolina holds an MA in History of Design and Curatorial Studies from The New School and Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum, a Graduate Certificate on Gender Studies, and a BA in Design from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.