NEW YORK, NY.- Mitchell-Innes & Nash has appointed curator Ylinka Barotto as a gallery director. Barotto will join the gallery in November 2022 to focus on museum relationships, liaising with artists and estates. She previously served as Associate Curator at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and Assistant Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
“I am very pleased to announce that Ylinka is joining Mitchell-Innes & Nash,” said Lucy Mitchell-Innes. “With many years of experience as a distinguished curator, Ylinka will be a tremendous asset to our artists and our program.”
“I have always admired Mitchell-Innes & Nash’s long-standing dedication to socially and politically engaged work and their commitment to presenting artists within a broader art historical context,” said Ylinka Barotto. “I am thrilled to join the team and continue the gallery’s important efforts championing trailblazing artists and fostering their practices for museums and institutions around the world.”
As Associate Curator at the Moody from 2019 to 2022, Barotto conceived and developed contemporary interdisciplinary exhibitions, commissions, and programming focused on the intersection of art, politics, anthropology, and history. She curated the exhibitions Baseera Khan: Weight on History, co-organized with the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2022); Kapwani Kiwanga: The Sand Recalls the Moon’s Shadow (2021); and States of Mind: Art and American Democracy (2020). Barotto also curated numerous projects for Rice’s public art program, working with artists Sondra Perry, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Edra Soto, Clarissa Tossin, and Charisse Pearlina Weston, among others
At the Guggenheim from 2014 to 2019, Barotto served as Assistant Curator on modern and postwar retrospectives, collection-based exhibitions, and contemporary surveys, including Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection (2019-2020); Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away (2018); Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim (2017); Moholy-Nagy: Future Present (2016); and Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting (2015-2016). She helped shape the Guggenheim’s permanent collection through acquisitions of work by emerging artists through the Young Collectors Council. She also moderated conversations for the Guggenheim Public Program between artists, activists, and journalists on topics such as feminism, identity, and representation.
Barotto independently curated the performance Marinella Senatore and the School of Narrative Dance for Magazzino Italian Art Foundation (2019); and the exhibition Non-Places and the Spaces in Between for the Italian Cultural Institute of New York (2019). She received an M.A. in curatorial studies from the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, Italy.
