Tally de Orellana

Tally de Orellana (born Natalia) graduated from the dual degree program: Arts Administration and Policy, and Modern Art History, Theory and Criticism (2016) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Born in Spain and raised in Italy, France, and the United Kingdom, she holds an MA in Art History and Architecture from The University of Edinburgh (UK, 2012).

Since 2006 she has worked and collaborated in a number of curatorial projects in Italy, France, Britain, and in the US. Between 2014 and 2015, she was part of the curatorial team for the MFA Show at SAIC. From September 2015 until May 2016, she was the curatorial fellow at Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago) while serving as development coordinator at Elastic Arts (Chicago, 2016). She held the 2016-2017 Hilla Rebay International Fellowship at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, working in their exhibitions programming in New York, Bilbao, and Venice. She recently held the Daniel W. Dietrich II curatorial fellow in Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Her research interests target the role of cultural institutions and curatorial practices in the systems of classification and formation of cultural hierarchies. Related areas of interest include systems of formation of artistic identity and postcolonial theory.