Marina Cortés

Marketing professional experienced in branding and strategy Cultural producer, project coordinator, and curator with extensive experience in cultural organization. Enthusiastic about investigating intercultural histories through interdisciplinary approaches as a means to better understand artists, galleries, and people; capable of expertly functioning across different positions including administrative assistant, writer, translator, researcher, or public programmer. Highly motivated polyglot professional with a rich multicultural background, ambitious, communicative, task-oriented, creative and proactive thoroughly learned and connected consultant regarding the international art market, as evidenced by my work as a gallery assistant in Brazil, Chicago, London, and Madrid.

-Cultural producer and freelance curator working closely with:

Chicago Cultural Center at the Chicago Architectural Biennial,

Links Hall for 40th year anniversary , Defibrillator Gallery at Zhou B Art Center, Somos Art Berlin, SUGS Galleries, Gallery 400, MCA, University of Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago

-Thesis Selection for Lonsonw Media Symposium at CICA MUSEUM in Seul, South Korea.

-Thesis presentation at Macksey Symposium at John Hopkins University

-Art Residency in Berlin in 2018 with NYC Berlin and SAIC along with Somos Art

-Nominated in the summer of 2020 for an internship at the MCA for Performance Program

-Collaborated as a gallery assistant with Gavlak Gallery at Frieze London

-Volunteer coordinator at Sao Paulo, Amnesty International Brazil (2015)