Michele Faguet is a writer, editor, and translator living in Berlin. A graduate of Brown University (BA, 1993) and Columbia University (MA, 1996), she has taught critical theory and institutional critique at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (2002–2003) and has been a visiting curator and lecturer at the Banff Center and a guest lecturer at the California College of the Arts MA Curatorial Practice program and the Dutch Art Institute. As director/curator of the Or Gallery, Vancouver (2005–2007), Espacio La Rebeca, Bogotá (2002–2005), and La Panadería, Mexico City (2000–2001), as well as adjunct curator of the Alliance Française, Bogotá (2004–2005), she organized numerous exhibitions with diverse international artists and collectives such as Sharon Hayes, Phil Collins, Helena Producciones, Javier Téllez, Kristin Lucas, Johanna Unzueta, and Minerva Cuevas. She has written extensively on contemporary art for a variety of publications, with a special interest on the contextualization of recent practices from Chile and Colombia. She is a 2008 recipient of the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.
She is also the mother of an acerbic teen and a neurotic rescue dog.