Sofía Olascoaga
studied plastic arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving La Esmeralda and Curatorial Studies at the Independent Studies Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (2010). She was a curatorial research fellow at Independent Curators International (2011), co-curator of the 32nd São Paulo Biennial (2016), academic curator at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (2014-2015) and coordinator for Education and Public Programs at the Carrillo Gil Art Museum (2007-2010). Her research Entre utopía y desencanto (Between Utopia and Disenchantment) deals with models of intentional communities and alternative notions of education, created in Mexico between the 1950s and 1980s, particularly the development of the Centro Intercultural de Documentación (CIDOC) and the repercussions of Ivan Illich's ideas. She is a member of the network Another Roadmap School.