María Montero Sierra is an art historian and curator who is currently head of program of TBA21–Academy. Under the initiative of the Academy, she is developing Fishing Fly, a research project on the relationships between marine and human ecosystems from the prism of eating. Her curatorial projects include “Frequency Singular Plural,” a cycle of performances at CentroCentro, Madrid (2019) and “En los cantos nos diluimos” at Sala de Arte Joven de la Comunidad de Madrid (2017), along with other collaborations, including “Joan Jonas: Moving Off the Land” at Tate Modern (2018) and TBA21–Academy’s The Current II (2018-20) and The Current III (2021–25). Montero Sierra graduated from the department of art history at the Complutense University of Madrid, in 2006, and obtained her MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, in 2013.

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