Fabiola R. Delgado
Independent Curator and Creative Producer.
The Art Pusher
Originally from Venezuela and with a background in International Human Rights Law, Fabiola made Washington DC her home, where she reshaped her career to pursue justice through art and cultural experiences. Grounded in storytelling as the core of her practice, she develops thoughtful projects that recenter perspectives and foster intergenerational creative learning.
Fabiola curates exhibitions, designs public programs, and writes about art and artists. She has worked with institutions such as the Hirshhorn Museum, the National Museum of American History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Anacostia Community Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Times Square Arts, Washington Project for the Arts, the Smart Museum of Art, The Fundred Project with MacArthur Fellow Mel Chin, and more.Among other distinctions, she’s received awards and fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the U.S. Regional Arts Organizations. She’s the Editor of Tendrils Journal; member of the Curatorial Committee of the GLB Memorial Fund for the Arts; Communications and Engagement Advisor for S.O.U.R.C.E Studio; and is also a co-founder of KAMA-DC. Fabiola lends her expertise as lecturer, panelist, and board member for various institutions, such as Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), George Washington University, Cornell University, Washington Studio School, Hamiltonian Artists, The DC Arts Center, The Nicholson Project, The Heinz Awards, The PROSE Awards, The James Beard Foundation, and Wherewithal Grants.
SELECT PROJECTS
CURATORIAL
Everything Time Touches | Visual Arts Center of RichmondAquel Amplex | Instituto Cervantes NYOn Behalf of New Myths | Stone Tower Gallery, Glen Echo ParkTactics for Remembering | MoCA ArlingtonHomeland | Hostland | 2025 Arts in Foggy Bottom BiennialTo dream con los cuerpos | TransformerBetween, Through, Across | DC Arts CenterBuild what we hate. Destroy what we love. | apexart NYCLegacy: Civil Rights at 60 | DC Commission on the Arts and HumanitiesOut of Hand: Tradition Meets Tech | Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center Terceros Lugares/Third Places | Embassy of VenezuelaNotions of Exile | Washington Project for the Arts
Programming
Future ForebearsEl Salón | Olympia Gallery NYBefore the Bulldozers | Walking Cinema x Anacostia Community Museum Urban Adventure Kit with Chefs Carla Hall and José Andrés | Anacostia Community Museum VIVA Brooklyn| Brooklyn MuseumToward Common Cause | Smart Museum of ArtHirshhorn Kids | Hirshhorn Museum WAVE | Times Square ArtsThe Private Life of Rag Dolls Storytelling | Center for Book ArtsFundred Project | Eaton DCChow X Series | MOFAD NYC
PRESS & MEDIA
Hyperallergic | Visions of Venezuela and Cuba from ExileEast City Art | Homeland Hostland ReviewThe Washington Post | Take an Art Tour of Foggy BottomCultybytes | Washington DC’s Outdoor Sculpture Biennial Opens with a Timely ThemeIntervenxions, by The Latinx Project | Building Community Through Independent CurationThe Washington Post | In just 250 square feet, a tiny art show goes cosmicThe New York Times | In Art, Migrants Weave Memories of Their Great EscapeBmoreArt | Between, Through, Across: Exploring Migration at the DC Arts CenterThe Truth in this Art Podcast | InterviewArte al Día | Negotiating to Carry the LoadArtishock Revista | Los Relatos de los Restos/The Stories of the RemainsBmoreArt | Moments of IntimacyThe Brooklyn Rail | Common Ground Conversation
WRITINGS & TALKS
The Art Pusher | Professional BlogCritically Social | Guest Lecturer, George Washington UniversityCurating Independently Today | Guest Lecturer, Maryland College Institute of Art (MICA)Art, Migration, and the Politics of Legibility | Guest Lecturer, George Mason UniversityBaggage/Luggage:Material and Symbolic Meanings in Displacement Experiences | Presenter at CAA 113th Annual ConferenceHeads will Roll | Artishock RevistaThe Growing Venezuelan Diaspora in the US | Guest Lecturer, Case Western Reserve UniversityCulture Guardians and the Museum of You | Guest Lecturer, Cornell UniversityCult to a Fragmented Culture: Reflections of a Process in Process | Presenter, (Re)thinking Venezuela Annual Symposium, Cornell UniversityViolencia de Género: La Pandemia Real durante el Confinamiento COVID-20 | Presenter, Semana Tecnológica, Tecnológico Nacional de MéxicoMujeres: Retos y Perspectivas | Editor & co-author, University of Carabobo PublishingThe “X” in Latinx | The Phillips Collection, Museum BlogBeyond the Place | The Washington InformerLooking at Art from a Kid’s View | Museum Mindshare Blog
Fun fact:
Fabiola scores a 0 (perfect score)
on the Farnsworth-Munsell 100 Hue Test.
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