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Marisol Rodríguez (Ciudad de México, 1984. Lives in Paris) is a writer, editor and curator in the crossroads of cultural history, popular culture and contemporary art. She is a researcher of Mexican comics and narrative arts, having lectured, published and curated internationally on the subject. In 2018 she was a guest curator of the 13th Dakar Biennale under the artistic direction of Simon Njami. In 2020 she curated AMEXICA, an exhibition with works from the Servais Family Collection in Brussels (2020-2022) that later travelled to the Institut Culturel du Mexique in Paris (April-July, 2023). Her texts about art and culture appear regularly in Letras Libres and in her newsletter.
In 2015 and 2020 she was a guest at the cultural journalism fellowship at the Fundación Gabriel García Márquez Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano in Colombia; in 2016 she was a fellow at Independent Curators International's Curatorial Intensive in Dakar. She has been a member of the Association International de Critiques d'Art (AICA) since 2011.
She has been director of the contemporary art galleries mor charpentier (2017-19) and gb agency (2019-2023). Based in Paris, Marisol Rodríguez is the Curatorial Director of Mariane Ibrahim Gallery in Chicago, Paris and Mexico City.
She holds a Masters in Culture, Criticism and Curation from Central Saint Martins where she attended with a Vice-Chancellor bursary, writing her dissertation on the Mexican historieta El Libro Vaquero under the tutorship of Professor Roger Sabin.
She is the co-founder and editor of Mono Ediciones, a publishing house of poetry based in Mexico.