Alex Bortolot is the Content Strategist at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, where he provides high-level planning, development and management of museum content as it manifests in special exhibitions, permanent collection galleries, print and digital publications, Mia’s website, and other interpretive approaches. Bortolot consistently champions new approaches to curatorial work, with an emphasis on inclusion, equity, accessibility, and diversity.He is a founding member of Mia’s digital experience team and is project lead on Mia’s “Living Rooms” initiative to rethink the presentation of its period rooms, and in that role has overseen an innovative program of installations, publications, events, and partnerships concerning those spaces. A specialist in the arts of Africa, Bortolot played a key role in reconceiving Mia’s African art galleries in 2013.
Prior to his current appointment, Bortolot was an Assistant Curator at the Hood Museum of Art and visiting lecturer in African Art History at Dartmouth College. Bortolot earned a PhD in Art History from Columbia University and a BA in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University. His doctoral dissertation on masks, performance, and modernity in Mozambique, East Africa was awarded the triennial Roy Sieber Outstanding Dissertation Award by ACASA, the Arts Council of the African Studies Association, in 2011.
Prior to his current appointment, Bortolot was an Assistant Curator at the Hood Museum of Art and visiting lecturer in African Art History at Dartmouth College. Bortolot earned a PhD in Art History from Columbia University and a BA in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University. His doctoral dissertation on masks, performance, and modernity in Mozambique, East Africa was awarded the triennial Roy Sieber Outstanding Dissertation Award by ACASA, the Arts Council of the African Studies Association, in 2011.
He is a founding member of Mia’s digital experience team and is project lead on Mia’s “Living Rooms” initiative to rethink the presentation of its period rooms, and in that role has overseen an innovative program of installations, publications, events, and partnerships concerning those spaces. A specialist in the arts of Africa, Bortolot played a key role in reconceiving Mia’s African art galleries in 2013.
Prior to his current appointment, Bortolot was an Assistant Curator at the Hood Museum of Art and visiting lecturer in African Art History at Dartmouth College. Bortolot earned a PhD in Art History from Columbia University and a BA in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University. His doctoral dissertation on masks, performance, and modernity in Mozambique, East Africa was awarded the triennial Roy Sieber Outstanding Dissertation Award by ACASA, the Arts Council of the African Studies Association, in 2011.
Prior to his current appointment, Bortolot was an Assistant Curator at the Hood Museum of Art and visiting lecturer in African Art History at Dartmouth College. Bortolot earned a PhD in Art History from Columbia University and a BA in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University. His doctoral dissertation on masks, performance, and modernity in Mozambique, East Africa was awarded the triennial Roy Sieber Outstanding Dissertation Award by ACASA, the Arts Council of the African Studies Association, in 2011.