Ivan L. Munuera is a New York-based scholar, critic, and curator working at the intersection of culture, technology, politics, and bodily practices in the modern period and on the global stage

PhD Candidate, School of Architecture, Princeton University

PhD, Art History, Universidad Complutense. Cum Laude

M.A. Architecture, Princeton University

M.A. Art History, Universidad Complutense

B.A. Art History, Universidad Complutense

He is an Assistant Professor at Bard College; and his research has been generously sponsored by PIIRS (Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies) and CCA (Canadian Centre for Architecture). In 2020, Munuera was awarded the Harold W. Dodds Fellowship at Princeton University. This fellowship recognizes scholars displaying the highest academic excellence and professional promise. 

Munuera has presented his work at various conferences and academic forums, such as the Society of Architectural Historians, Association for Art History, European Architectural History Network, Cornell AAP, Columbia GSAPP, Princeton University, Cooper Union, Penn University, Sussex University, the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, Université de Montréal, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Manchester University, Politecnico di Milano, CIVA Brussels, Willem de Kooning Academy, UTS Sydney, University of Texas, University of Virginia, MICA, and ETSAM, among others. His work has been published in the Journal for Architectural Education (JAE), The Journal of Architecture (RIBA), LogPerspectaThresholdsThe Architect’s Newspaper, ARCH+, e-flux, Domus, and El País, among others. Munuera has curated exhibitions at La Casa Encendida (Vulnerable Critters, 2022), Maat Lisbon (Vulnerable Beings, 2021), Museo Reina Sofía, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Fundació Suñol (The Schizos, 2009-2010), Ludwig Museum (ACAX Residency, 2010), Princeton University (Liquid La Habana, 2018) and CA2M (Pop Politics, 2012-2013); and developed a series of projects, including Grounded Bodies, Flying Plasma (CIVA, 2022; Mayrit Biennial, 2024), PrEP Bread (Venice Architecture Biennale, 2023; The Center, 2023; Casa de la Arquitectura, 2024), Your Restroom is a Battleground /The Restroom Pavilion (Venice Architecture Biennale, 2021; Mayrit Biennial, 2024), Unzipped Parties (Russian Federation Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, 2021), Transfusing (Shanghai Biennale, 2021), The Transscalar Architecture of COVID-19 (The World Around, 2020; Kunstage Basel, 2021), Bauhauswelle (Floating University Berlin, 2018) and Chromanoids (Istanbul Design Biennale, 2016; Seoul Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, 2017).