Christian Viveros-Fauné (Santiago, Chile, 1965) is a curator, critic, and author who has worked in the contemporary art field since 1994. He currently serves as Curator-at-Large at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum and is the curator of Iván Tovar: Le Retour, an official Collateral Event at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Additionally, he was appointed Guest Curator for the 2027 reopening of The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Recent key appointments include Guest Curator of the 2023 Converge 45 triennial (Portland, Oregon) and the 2023 Ekhard Scholar-in-Residence at Bucknell University. Throughout his career, he has curated exhibitions at leading museums in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, and lectured at institutions such as Yale University, Pratt University, and Holland’s Gerrit Rietveld Academie. A co-founder of The Brooklyn Rail (1999) and former art critic for the Village Voice (2008–2016), Viveros-Fauné is the author of several books, including Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art (David Zwirner Books, 2019). He was named Critic in Residence at the Bronx Museum in 2011, received a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Grant in 2009, and was awarded the University of South Florida’s Kennedy Family Visiting Fellowship in 2018.