Antonio Díaz Oliva

Bilingual Editor

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Antonio is a bilingual writer, editor, and museum educator with 20 years of experience in academia, publishing, and various cultural institutions. A Fulbright scholar, he attended New York University and Georgetown University, where he taught at The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS). In 2022 he became the first Latino and bilingual editor at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), where among other things he oversees the Bilingual Initiative, a process that’s making the museum a bilingual and multicultural institution. His work at MCA has been featured in media in the U.S. and elsewhere (link). He has presented about his work at the MCA in places like the University of Chicago, Harvard University, Expo Chicago, and more recently at the American Alliance of Museums conference in Los Ángeles. Born in Chile, he has lived in Ireland, New York City, Washington DC, Bogotá, and in Chicago since 2020.