Claudia Mattos (she/her) is a curator, writer, and researcher whose interests include the intersections of art, global politics, and emergent technologies; art as a tool of critical pedagogy; histories of media art and performance; and global contemporary art, with a particular interest in diasporic practices and transnational perspectives.
Claudia is currently an Associate Curator at Rice University's Moody Center for the Arts, Houston. Previously, she served as Associate Curator of New Media Art at The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, where she developed and curated exhibitions and newly commissioned projects grounded in the history of video and electronic media, including presentations with Lawrence Lek, Charles Atlas, and assume vivid astro focus. In a prior institutional role, Claudia served as Assistant Curator of Media Arts and Live Events at The Baltimore Museum of Art, where she curated exhibitions of works by Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin and the New York collective DIS. She has also held positions at Performa, New York, and Locust Projects, Miami, and she has additionally contributed to research and writing at The Whitney Museum of American Art; Independent Curators International; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, among others.
From 2020 to 2023, Claudia served as Director at David Castillo Gallery, Miami, leading its exhibitions, programs, and art fair presentations. Claudia's proposal of Belkis Ayón: Mujer was selected for presentation at the 2023 edition of Art Basel in Basel, making David Castillo the first Florida gallery to exhibit at the Swiss fair.
Claudia is currently a 2026 Research Fellow with Visual AIDS, New York. In Spring 2023, Claudia served as a Curator-in-Residence at SOMA, Mexico City. In 2022, she was a Researcher-in-Residence at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul. And in Fall 2019, Claudia was a Curator-in-Residence with the Shanghai Curators Lab, organized between the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts and the Shanghai Biennial.
The exhibitions and projects she has curated have been featured in The Washington Post, Artforum.com, Hyperallergic, ARTNews, Fresh Art International, WYPR's Art Matters, and many others.
She earned an MA in Art History from The Courtauld Institute of Art, London; and a BA in Art History and Visual Studies from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Claudia is Latina and Caribeña. Her curatorial vocabulary is deeply intersectional and rooted in feminist, post-colonial, and queer frameworks.