Paola Santos Coy

Paola Santos Coy

Paola Santos Coy is a curator and writer based in Mexico City. From 2012 to 2024, she held the position of Director at Museo Experimental el Eco, where she focused on exploring the intersections between art and architecture. Her practice is grounded in experimental approaches, emphasizing context-based initiatives, site-specificity, and public art.

She has served as curator in different exhibition spaces in Mexico City: La Panadería, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil and Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo. In 2022 she was curator of the Public Art Program Las Artes Monterrey, Mexico. She co-directed the International Art Theory Symposium (SITAC) in Mexico City together with Brazilian curator Marcio Harum, under the title being-with-one-another, 2013. She curated “The Nature of Things”, “1st Biennial of the Americas in Denver”, Colorado, 2010, and served as adjunct curator of the 8th Mercosur Biennial, 2011, which takes place in Porto Alegre, Brazil.