Amara Antilla is an Assistant Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York where she worked on retrospectives featuring Monir Farmanfarmaian (2015), V. S. Gaitonde (2014), and Lee Ufan (2011). She is also part of the curatorial team responsible for acquisitions and exhibitions focusing on contemporary art from South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa under the auspices of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative. Antilla was awarded an Asian Cultural Council grant for Art History (2015-16) and served as curatorial adviser for Rewind at the Dhaka Art Summit in Bangladesh (2016). She studied Art History at Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and is currently pursuing graduate work in Art History at Hunter College at the City University of New York (CUNY).