Amanda is a curator, design historian, and cultural researcher based in New York

Amanda Forment is a curator and writer whose work focuses on modern and contemporary design, with a particular emphasis on Latin American visual and material culture. With a practice rooted in rigorous historical scholarship and cross-disciplinary inquiry, she has contributed to exhibitions, research projects, and publications across leading institutions including The Museum of Modern Art, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Parsons School of Design, the Jewish Museum, and the New-York Historical Society.

She holds a Master's in History of Design and Curatorial Studies from Parsons School of Design and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and a BA in History from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has also served as a lecturer at Parsons School of Design, where she taught courses on design history and art history from a global perspective.

She has contributed to major exhibitions including Crafting Modernity: Design in Latin America, 1940–1980, Never Alone, Rafael Rozendaal: Light, Duro Olowu Selects, Systems, Bauhaus and Beyond, Vienna Secession, and The New Spirit in Paris.

Currently a Curatorial Associate in MoMA's Department of Architecture and Design, she combines research, writing, and interdisciplinary collaboration to foreground underexplored design histories, expand narratives around global modernism, and support exhibitions, acquisitions, and public programs that center diverse voices and perspectives within the field.

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