EXPOSURE

The EXPOSURE section, installed on the main floor of the exposition, features solo and two-artist presentations represented by galleries ten years and younger. For the second year running, EXPOSURE 2025 exhibitors will be curated by Rosario Güiraldes, Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

EXPO CHICAGO 2024. Photo by Justin Barbin. 

About the 2025 Curator

Rosario Güiraldes, EXPO CHICAGO 2024 EXPOSURE Curator. Photo by Adrianna Glavanio.

Rosario Güiraldes is Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where she is part of a team responsible for organizing exhibitions, collaborating with visual artists, and managing the museum’s contemporary art collection. Recent and upcoming exhibitions at the Walker Art Center include a retrospective of Abdias Nascimento (2027), for which she received a Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Fellowship; the group exhibition Ways of Knowing (2025); and a solo exhibition of artist Walter Price (2024). Prior to her current role, Güiraldes was an Associate Curator at The Drawing Center in New York, where she worked from 2017–2023. During that time, she organized solo exhibitions of artists including Xiyadie (2023), Fernanda Laguna (2022), Ebecho Muslimova (2021), and Guo Fengyi (2020), as well as the extensive group exhibition of contemporary drawing Drawing in the Continuous Present (2022). Her large-scale solo exhibition Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics was presented in different versions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA, 2017) and at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City (2017–2018), earning Forensic Architecture a Turner Prize nomination. In addition to her work at the Walker Art Center, Güiraldes curated the Exposure section at EXPO CHICAGO (2024) and served as a critic in the Department of Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art from 2022–23. She also regularly contributes essays to journals such as Frieze and to exhibition catalogues. Güiraldes holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and a BA from the University of Buenos Aires.