Ramonetti-Liceaga, Ariadna

Holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the Universidad Iberoamericana; a Master's degree in Art Studies from the same institution; and a specialist in Southern Epistemologies from the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO)-CES-Portugal (First generation). Currently a full professor at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and leader of the ITESM Strategic Arts and Culture Project for the MTY region. Was a beneficiary of the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology, and Innovation from 2014 to 2018 and a National Research Candidate from the National System of Researchers (SNII) from 2021 to 2024. Was a recipient of the Promotion of Research and Higher Culture (FICSAC) award from the Universidad Iberoamericana in 2017, the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) award in 2011-12, and the Contemporary Art Trust (PAC) award in 2013-14, 2019, and 2023. Has been an independent curator, producer, editor, and manager of cultural projects for 20 years. Has collaborated with artists such as Stefan Ruiz, Julieta Aranda, Laureana Toledo, Oswaldo Ruiz, Daniela Edburg, Ximena Labra, Jerónimo Hagerman, Gonzalo Lebrija, Christian Jankowski, Cinthia Marcelle, Iván Abreu, and Wilfredo Prieto, among others. Has also taught classes, lectures, diploma courses, and presentations at the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC), the National Museum of Art (MUNAL), the University Museum of Sciences and Arts (MUCA), the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), and the University of San Carlos de Guatemala, among other venues. Recent curatorial projects include: Nuevo León: The Future Is Not Written at the MARCO Museum and the 4th Nuevo León State Prize at CONARTE, both in Monterrey, Nuevo León. From 2005 to 2009, directed Trolebús, a self-managed space located in an abandoned Japanese trolleybus on the streets of Mexico City for artistic and non-artistic interventions that reflected on the notion of inhabiting a common, everyday space. Curated more than 20 site-specific projects. Subsequently worked at the Blaisten Collection, the OMR gallery, and the Siqueiros Public Art Gallery, coordinating and producing several exhibitions. In 2014, served as chief curator of The Future is Unwritten, a collection of 200 works of contemporary Mexican art exhibited at the Fondazione Cini during the 56th Venice Biennale. That same year, began her doctoral studies in Social Anthropology at the Universidad Iberoamericana, focusing on analyzing, from an aesthetic and political perspective, various territorial disputes between rural communities and the Mexican state due to the location of infrastructure projects in the northeast of the country's capital. In 2016, she completed a research stay at the Department of Rural Sociology at the Universidad Autónoma Chapingo. Since that year, she has edited the journal Islario, a self-managed project that seeks to bring to light various processes of water, land, and territorial dispossession in Latin America and the Caribbean through art, social sciences, and investigative journalism. She is currently publishing the project "Islands Are Also Displaced: Dialogues on Art, Politics, and Territory" with her own publishing house, Islario Ediciones. Worked as a full-time professor and researcher at the University of Monterrey (UDEM) for more than six years. She has 12 years of university teaching experience and has supervised 12 undergraduate theses. He twice received the Teaching Award from the Vice-Rector's Office of Higher Education at the University of Monterrey (2018 and 2022).