Carla Stellweg (Bandung, Indonesia, 1942) is an independent consultant specializing in Latin American and Latinx art and artists. Throughout her career, she has worked as a museum and non-profit director, writer, editor, curator, and professor. Carla is considered a pioneer promoter and facilitator in Latin American international contemporary art. She was and continues to be instrumental in introducing many young and mid-career artists from Latin America, Latinx-U.S., Cuba and the Caribbean producing conceptual, socially-engaged art in both new and traditional media, either working in New York or from around the world.
After moving to Mexico in 1958, her career started in the mid 1960s as the assistant curator for Fernando Gamboa during Expo '67 (Montreal, Canada), HemisFair '68 (San Antonio, TX), the 34th Venice Biennial in 1969, and Expo '70 (Osaka, Japan). Then in the 1970s, Carla was the co-founder and editor of the first bilingual quarterly avant-garde Contemporary Art Journal at el Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico, Artes Visuales. The magazine is even today recognized for its seminal introduction of international, cutting-edge, and conceptual art in an editorial approach that welcomed the offbeat significant visual culture of those times. She has since then published and lectured widely on a variety of topics and significant artists within the field (bibliographical details upon request).
Ever since her move to New York in 1982, Carla established herself as a prime point of contact for all related to Latin American art. For over 35 years of existence, her loft on East Houston Street in SoHo was a welcoming platform for innumerable Pan-American artists, curators, collectors, and arts professionals at all levels. She has been a professor in the Department of Visual Critical Studies and Art History at the School of Visual Arts in New York from 2005-2022, where she taught a course on What is Latin American & Latinx Art?. She currently lives and works in Mexico, continuing to act as an occasional visiting professor at various universities and institutions in Latin America.
After moving to Mexico in 1958, her career started in the mid 1960s as the assistant curator for Fernando Gamboa during Expo '67 (Montreal, Canada), HemisFair '68 (San Antonio, TX), the 34th Venice Biennial in 1969, and Expo '70 (Osaka, Japan). Then in the 1970s, Carla was the co-founder and editor of the first bilingual quarterly avant-garde Contemporary Art Journal at el Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico, Artes Visuales. The magazine is even today recognized for its seminal introduction of international, cutting-edge, and conceptual art in an editorial approach that welcomed the offbeat significant visual culture of those times. She has since then published and lectured widely on a variety of topics and significant artists within the field (bibliographical details upon request).
Ever since her move to New York in 1982, Carla established herself as a prime point of contact for all related to Latin American art. For over 35 years of existence, her loft on East Houston Street in SoHo was a welcoming platform for innumerable Pan-American artists, curators, collectors, and arts professionals at all levels. She has been a professor in the Department of Visual Critical Studies and Art History at the School of Visual Arts in New York from 2005-2022, where she taught a course on What is Latin American & Latinx Art?. She currently lives and works in Mexico, continuing to act as an occasional visiting professor at various universities and institutions in Latin America.
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Documents outlining Carla's maternal family tree, started c. 1789.