Ana María Lozano is professor of contemporary art and museums at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá. As independent curator and researcher, she has devoted the last ten years of her career to understanding the relationship between Contemporary Art and Decoloniality, and between Art and the Vegetable Turn. Her most recent curatorships include 2024: Encounters at the Powder Factory, anthological exhibition of the artist María Elvira Escallón at the Art Museum Miguel Urrutia-MAMU, Banco de la República, and Contextualism and vulnerability, San Francisco Palace/ARTBO, Bogotá. Her recent written work includes: “Supine and Naked America” in Violence and Resistance: Arts and Politics in Colombia, ed. Stephen Zepke and Nicolás Alvarado (Palgrave McMillan, 2023), and the co-edition of issue 17-2 of MAVAE Journal: Espabilar conversas hacia un arte ecopolítico (2022). She was the Academic Director of the International Encounter Incipit Terra: Bodies of Water and Bodies of Land held by the Faculty of Art of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.