Agar Ledo Arias is an art historian and research specialist at the Museo de Pontevedra in Galicia. With an interest in the social and political implications of artistic practice, she is the deputy curator of the 32nd Pontevedra Biennial. Between 2019 and 2022, she was curator and acquisitions advisor at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, where she was part of the team for the exhibition Vasos comunicantes. Colección 1881–2021.
From 2006 to 2018, she directed the Exhibitions Department at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, where she coordinated productions by Tino Sehgal, Thomas Hirschhorn, Martin Creed, Tania Bruguera, and Teresa Margolles, and curated exhibitions by Grace Schwindt, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Patricia Esquivias, Pedro Barateiro, and Carlos Bunga, as well as projects on cultural production in Galicia.
She holds a master’s degree in Museology from the University of Alcalá and another in Art and Politics from Goldsmiths, University of London. She has completed training residencies at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Oklahoma, USA; Le Consortium, Dijon; the Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon and Independent Curators International (ICI), New York.
She began her career at the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, between 1998 and 2004, and worked at the 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (2004) and the Fundación Luis Seoane (2005), A Coruña. She is a board member of the Advisory Council of CGAC.
