Amanda de la Garza Mata

Developing, directing and coordinating the inventory and catalogue of the Museo Reina Sofía Collection, the collections registration, research programmes, action plans for the conservation, consolidation and restoration of the Museo’s artistic heritage, and for its protection, as well as scientific and technical collaboration agreements, the annual publications and acquisitions plan of the Library, professional development and advancement programmes, Central Archive services, documentation, the registration of cultural assets of historical value, and the Museo’s Library and Documentation Centre. She also supports and advises the director of the Museo, under the terms set by the Statute of the Organisation (approved by Royal Decree 188/2013, of 15 March).

She holds a BA in Sociology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (Mexico) and an MA in Anthropological Science, specialising in the Anthropology of Culture, from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) (Mexico). She has also studied diplomas and seminars on cultural leadership, curatorial studies, art criticism, studies of the body and the theory of the image.

In February 2024 Amanda was named deputy artistic director of the Museo Reina Sofía, a position she currently holds. From 2020 to 2024 she was director-general of Visual Arts and the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), where, from 2012 to 2019, she previously worked as an associate curator. She has curated and coordinated over thirty exhibitions in Mexico and internationally. 

In the academic sphere, she has lectured at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and at other institutions she has taught courses on curatorship, archive and contemporary art, expanded cinema and cultural diversity. She has also developed research projects and curatorial residencies in Europe and Latin America, and has built up a salient body of editorial work in the realm of contemporary art.   

Amanda is currently president of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM), and is part of organisations such as the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) and on the advisory committees of the Museo Franz Mayer (Mexico) and the Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM (FICUNAM) (Mexico). Furthermore, she has been a jury member of different national pavilions at the Venice Biennale and prestigious awards and programmes in support of artistic creation.  

Gross remuneration for 2024: €93,477.30