Stephanie García Albán

Executive and Artistic Director 

Cultural manager, artistic director, and museum production specialist with over fifteen years of international experience in Ecuador, the United States, and Europe.

She currently leads the National Museums Network of the Coastal Region, where she directs the artistic, curatorial, and operational management of the Museo Antropológico y de Arte Contemporáneo (MAAC), as well as the Museo Nahim Isaías, Presley Norton, and Los Amantes de Sumpa.

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Her leadership has been the driving force behind the consolidation of Ecuador’s first official pavilion at the Venice Biennale, conceived and managed entirely through public institutions via the MAAC. This achievement is the result of a two-year process marked by complex mediation, in which she successfully articulated the dynamics of the public sector with the support of private enterprise to build a project with a vocation for permanence.

By activating collaborative networks and securing the necessary support, she has not only guaranteed the country’s presence on the global stage with Tawna & Oscar’s project, but has also marked a turning point in national cultural management. Her work demonstrates that it is possible to create solid, transparent, and sustainable institutional structures that transcend political shifts and project Ecuador’s contemporary production into the future.​

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