Yina Jiménez Suriel
Yina Jiménez Suriel is a curator with a Master’s degree in Visual Studies.
Her curatorial practice is nourished by transdisciplinary research focused on the construction of imagination, contemporary emancipatory processes, and the politics of movement, developed under the ongoing project la historia de las montañas (the history of the mountains). Yina is Artistic Director of Sequences XIII Biennial (Reykjavík, 2027), Curator of the transdisciplinary program The Current IV at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21–Academy), and Associate Editor of Contemporary And (C&) for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Her curatorial projects include otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua (2025) at Ocean Space (Italy); desde los azules (2024) at Kunsthalle Lissabon (Portugal); the first and second phases of de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas, developed in 2022 between Pivô (Brazil) and Cinemateca Dominicana (Dominican Republic), and in 2023–2024 between KADIST San Francisco (USA), Delfina Foundation (UK), and the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design Manila (Philippines), including the editing of its two publications; and Vehículos. Una revisión (2018) at Casa Quien (Dominican Republic).
Yina served as Adjunct Curator of the 14th Bienal do Mercosul (2025), and as co-curator of the Opening section of ARCOmadrid in 2023 and 2024. She was invited to participate in the Delfina Foundation’s summer residency program in 2022. She has written for several specialized publications, including Afterall, Contemporary And, Foam, Frieze, Revista de Arte UNAM, Terremoto, Umbigo, as well as artist books and exhibition catalogues.