ELISA VALERIO
Montevideo, Uruguay

She curated the Uruguay Pavilion for the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2024 with the project Latent, by the artist Eduardo Cardozo, in collaboration with Álvaro Zinno.

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Holds a master’s degree in Advanced Studies in Art History from Universitat de Barcelona (Spain), with a master's thesis focusing on the connection between mediation and curatorial practices. She completed her master's internship at the Coordination of Educational Projects at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona, Spain). Additionally, she has a Bachelor of Arts in Literature graduated from Universidad de la República (Uruguay), and obtained a Diploma in Editing from Universidad CLAEH (Uruguay).​

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She works in the field of visual arts, occupying different roles and organizations. She has collaborated with different national institutions, including the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Atchugarry (MACA), the Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (EAC), the Fundación Cervieri Monsuárez, the Fundación Ama Amoedo, the Xippas gallery, and the Diana Saravia Gallery, among others. 

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She contributes regularly to ArtNexus (Colombia-United States) and la diaria (Uruguay) on the subject of visual arts.. She has taught courses on curatorial practices, mediation, and the art world in Uruguay. She has also presented and moderated numerous talks, activities, and events, and has served as a judge for various visual arts awards in Uruguay.

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In 2024, she curated the Uruguay Pavilion with the project Latent, by the artist Eduardo Cardozo, in collaboration with Álvaro Zinno. That same year, she collaborated with the same artists on an installation called On the other side at Magma Futura, a technology, innovation and culture space in Uruguay. This installation can be regarded as a reverberation or an echo of Latent in Uruguay, conceived and designed specifically for a venue dedicated to experimentation and technology. In 2025, the original installation of Latent was brought to Uruguay and is currently exhibited in the Fundación Cervieri Monsuárez at José Ignacio (June-September, 2025). This time, the show is in dialogue with The Tempest (2025), a collective in-situ installation by Eduardo Cardozo, Fabián Oliver and Álvaro Zinno that delves into the unconscious.

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Previously, she served as Assistant Curator on the exhibition Abstraction in Motion: Contemporary Uruguayan Art, curated by Martín Craciun, held at MACA (Maldonado, Uruguay). In that same year, she joined Diana Saravia Gallery as gallery assistant and producer of their participation in the MAPA Art Fair (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

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Between 2020 and 2024, she was the coordinator of the International Art Fair and Cultural Summit ESTE ARTE (Punta del Este, Uruguay). During the pandemic, as part of this organisation, she developed, produced, and hosted ESTE PODCAST (2020), where she interviewed gallery owners, art collectors, and personalities from the art world of the Americas. In addition, together with Laura Bardier –ESTE ARTE's director and founder– she co-curated ESTE JOURNAL (2021), an editorial section on the fair's online edition.

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