Ana Elena Mallet

Professor Ana Elena Mallet is an independent curator specializing in modern and contemporary design and cultural management. She organized the first exhibition of modern Latin American design for the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), called Crafting Modernity: Design in Latin America, 1940-1980, which opened in March 2024. Since 2018, she has been a guest curator at the Museo
Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City, where she was responsible for assembling the first public collection of Mexican design in the country.

She has taught history of design, art, and contemporary photography at various institutions and universities throughout Mexico, and has overseen the creation and planning of academic programs in different institutions. She was also a member of the London Design Biennale for the 2016 and 2018 editions.

Ana Elena Mallet has curated exhibitions in Mexico, Europe, and the United States in museums such as the Museo Franz Mayer (Mexico City); the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo or MARCO (Monterrey); the Musée International des Arts Modestes (Sète, France); the Art Institute of Chicago; the Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA); and Craft Contemporary (LA), among many others. In Mexico, she has curated exhibitions for the Museo Soumaya, the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, and was programming deputy director at the Museo Tamayo. Her research ranges from the famous and intricately woven Mexican looms to the core of Mexican design itself.

Ana Elena Mallet is a Distinguished Professor in Design for the School of Architecture, Art and Design. 

• Master in Art History with a specialty in Curatorial Studies, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
• Master, Museology, Centro de Arte Mexicano
• Bachelor in Latin American Literature with a specialty in Art and Knowledge, Universidad Iberoamericana

• In 2020 she published the book La Vida en el Arte. Writings by Clara Porset (Editorial Alias) and the book Felix Tissot Lo eterno y lo moderno (Fauna); in 2017 the book Silla Mexicana (Arquine / Conaculta) and in 2014, La Bauhaus y el México Moderno. The design of Van Beuren (Arquine / Conaculta).