Pablo León de la Barra is currently the Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator Latin America at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. From 2015-2016, he served as Director of Casa França Brasil in Rio de Janeiro. He has curated, among other exhibitions, To Be Political it Has to Look Nice (2003) at apexart and Art in General in New York; PR04 Biennale (2004, co-curator) in Puerto Rico; Incidents of Mirror Travel in Yucatan and Elsewhere (2011) at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Bananas Is my Business: the South American Way (2011, co-curated with Julieta Gonzalez) at Museu Carmen Miranda, Rio de Janeiro; Bienal Tropical (2011) in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today (2014-15) at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and Museo Jumex in Mexico City.

León de la Barra has written for various publications, participated in numerous international symposiums and conferences, and is editor of his blog, the Centre for the Aesthetic Revolution. In 2012 he was awarded the first Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Independent Curators International Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean in honor of Virginia Pérez-Ratton. He holds a PhD in History and Theories from the Architectural Association, London.