Founded in 2016 by art historian Claudia Pretelin, Instruments of Memory began as an online project documenting interviews with women in the arts. It is now a growing community that seeks to promote women’s work through in-depth conversations, exhibitions, and programming with various community partners. Our main focus is understanding the processes by which individuals and groups remember and interpret memories through contemporary art practices.
Claudia Pretelin (She/her)
Founder & Curator
Claudia Pretelin is a Mexican art historian, independent curator, and arts administrator based in Los Angeles, California. She holds a B.A. in communications and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her academic work has focused on photo history and contemporary art. Through an interdisciplinary approach, her curatorial practice focuses on understanding the processes by which individuals and groups remember and interpret memory in its different manifestations. She has lectured in Mexico, Argentina, and the United States and has organized exhibitions and events at various art museums and galleries, including the Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo) and the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). She is the Founder & Curator of http://www.instrumentsofmemory.com, an online site that documents conversations with women in the arts, a community that seeks to promote the work of women from different latitudes.