Ana Elena Mallet

Biography

Ana Elena Mallet is a curator and researcher specialising in modern and contemporary design. She is Distinguished Professor at the School of Architecture, Art and Design at Tecnológico de Monterrey, an academic member of the Acquisitions Committee of the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, and guest curator of the modern and contemporary Mexican design collection at MUAC-UNAM. In 2024 she curated Crafting Modernity: Design in Latin America, 1940–1980 at MoMA. She has worked as a curator at the Museo Soumaya, the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil and the Museo Rufino Tamayo, where she was deputy director of programming, and was chief curator of the Museo del Objeto (MODO); from 2009 to 2019 she directed the Corredor Cultural Roma Condesa. Her publications include La Vida en el Arte: Escritos de Clara Porset (2020), Silla Mexicana (2017) and La Bauhaus y el México Moderno: El diseño de Van Beuren (2014).