Isabella Indolfi is a New York-based Italian curator with 15 years of international experience curating and producing exhibitions and public programs for non-profit organizations, museums, and institutions, such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (Italy), The Hermitage State Museum Youth Educational Centre in Saint Petersburg (Russia), Bienal Saco (Chile), National Museum of Kenya, Cafesjian Museum in Yerevan (Armenia).
Isabella’s work is grounded in a commitment to social and environmental justice, exploring how creative research can foster critical thinking and collective responsibility. Her research has a dual focus: one on public art, community-based, and site-specific practices; the other on media art and the impact of emerging technologies on society and environment — both rooted in her academic training: a Master of Science in Media Studies from La Sapienza University (2007), and a Master of Arts in Human Rights and the Arts from Bard College (2023).
Co-founder and co-director of MESH_ARTS, a Brooklyn-based center where Art meets Research, Technology, and Science, Isabella is also founder and co-curator of the community-based Biennale of Public Art Seminaria Sogninterra in Italy since 2011, and co-curator of Cyfest International Media Art Festival since 2017.
In New York, since 2021, she has collaborated with organizations such as Brooklyn Arts Council, PS122 Gallery, International Studio Curatorial Program, CultureHub, Residency Unlimited, Hyphen Hub, School of Making Thinking, among others.
Isabella has shared her work through lectures at institutions such as Goldsmiths University of London, and Manchester Metropolitan University School of Art. Her research papers and critical texts have been published in various magazines, catalogs and academic journals, with some available on academia.edu.