Carla Macchiavello studied Fine Arts at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, receiving a Bachelor’s degree in Aesthetics from the same university in the year 2001. Between the years 2001 and 2003 she worked as teaching assistant in Art History and Literature courses at the Aesthetics Institute and as research assistant with profesor Jaime Blume. In 2003 she worked as co-author with Jaime Blume and Clemens Franken in a project of literary criticism which culminated with the publication of the book La crítica literaria del siglo XX. 50 modelos y su aplicación en el año 2005. She received a Fulbright scholarship to pursue her postgraduate studies in Art History at SUNY Stony Brook. Her MA thesis on the Chilean video artist Juan Downey was directed by Donald Kuspit. She has published and presented her essays in the state of New York. She received her Master’s degree in Art History and criticism in the year 2005 and continues her PhD studies at the same university where she has been working as teaching assistant in several Art History courses. She currently lives in New York where she is finishing her studies in Contemporary Latin American Art and has been curating exhibitions of contemporary art.