Paula Vilaplana de Miguel is a curator, cultural strategist, and creative director working across architecture and design, technology, and contemporary art.
She currently serves as Curatorial Associate at The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) and teaches at Syracuse University. Previously, she was Assistant Director of Exhibitions at Columbia University GSAPP and The Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, a researcher at Performa, and a lecturer at The New School Parsons, Columbia University, and Bard College.Paula Vilaplana has developed projects for institutions such as the Shanghai Art Biennial, The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Venice Architecture Biennial, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Princeton University, Triennale Milano, and Ca2M, among others. Her work has been published in MoMA Magazine, The New York Review of Architecture, the Invisible Culture Magazine at Rochester University, Arquine, and the Het Nieuwe Instituut, and her projects have been featured in the press internationally. She has developed visual strategies for Columbia University, the XIII Shanghai Art Biennial, and Spore Initiative in Berlin. Her research has been sponsored by MoMA, the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University, the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, and La Caixa Foundation, among others.
Backdrop: Goshka Macuga's "Exhibition M" (2019) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York