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Gabriela Rangel is the artistic director of the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA).
Prior to assuming her current position she was visual arts director and chief curator at Americas Society from 2004 to 2019.
She holds an MA in curatorial studies for the Center of Curatorial Studies, Bard College, an MA in media and communications studies from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas, and a BA film studies from the International Film School at San Anotnio de los Baños, Cuba.
She has worked at the Fundación Cinemateca Nacional and the Museo Alejandro Otero in Caracas, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions on modern and contemporary art that have included work by such artists as Carlos Cruz-Diez, Gordon Matta-Clark, GEGO, Arturo Herrera, José Leonilson and Alejandro Xul Solar.
She has written for Art in America, Parkett, and Art Nexus, edited numerous books and contributed text in such publications as Lydia Cabrera: Between the Sun and the Parts (Americas Society/Koening Books, London 2019), Contesting Modernity: Informalism in Venezuela 1955-1975 (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 2018), Erick Meyenberg: The wheel bears no ressemblance to a leg (Americas Society/Yerba Buena Center for Arts, 2017), Marta Minujín (Ciudad de Buenos Aires 2015), and A Principality of its Own (Americas Society/Harvard University Press, 2006).
