Fellow 2021-2022 ADOLFO MANTILLA OSORNIO
Adolfo Mantilla Osornio studied ethnology, German studies, art history, and anthropology. Throughout his work, he focuses on the fields of anthropology, art history museology, cultural management, postcolonial studies, as well as in semiotics, communication, and culture economics. He is the published author of several articles regarding critical aspects of the relationship between art, anthropology, and museology.
He was a coordinator of the departments of Indo-European languages and an ethnologist at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH), and since 2002, has also been part of the department of ethnology at the same institution. He was also deputy director of exhibitions at the National Museum of Art (MUNAL) and at the Museum of Fine Arts (MPBA) in Mexico City and has been employed to coordinate and/or curate dozens of national and international exhibitions. Since 2017 he's been an Academic Coordinator for the Academy of Arts, in Mexico.
INTERVIEW WITH CAPAS FELLOW ADOLFO MANTILLA OSORNIO
Profile of Adolfo Mantilla Osornio on the web page of Academia de Artes Mexico