Upcoming lectures: May 1-7 @ Fleming Museum (Burlington, VT) | Sept 15-28 @ Moss Art Center (Blacksburg, VA) | May 2025 @ Art Gallery of York University (Toronto, ON)
I’m David Ayala-Alfonso, a curator, writer and researcher based in Mexico City.
(Apr 2024) Daniel Tucker (UArts Philly) interviewed me about rituals and deep hanging out in my curatorial practice. Click here to read!
(April 3rd) Amy Lilly reviews the latest iteration of my show, Never Spoken Again, for Seven Days Vermont. Click here to read.
(March 2024) Jeronimo Duarte-Riascos (Columbia University) reflects on my collaborative project: “IDCT” in: Ways of Lying: Parafiction in Contemporary Latin American Art.
Read my latest texts on exhibitions, curatorial practice and more, on my writing platform, acopyisacopyisacopy.com.
My traveling exhibition, Never Spoken Again, is currently on view at the Fleming Museum of Art (Burlington, VT, USA). Contact Independent Curators International for 2025 booking info!
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Buy or read about Latin American Artists, a book where I served as an advisor and author (October 2023, Phaidon)
Browse the website of Where You Left Off, an artist exchange and curatorial experiment I created with Tally de Orellana. Next stop is Mexico City (2024).
Buy the book Theorizing Heritage Through Non Violent Resistant, with my latest published chapter on art, popular culture and critical heritage.
Never Spoken Again, installation shots from the Eli & Edythe Broad Museum; the Telfair Museums; and the Fleming Museum, 2004.
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Feel free to contact me if you can’t find or access any content.
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Thank you!
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—David.
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