Francesca Pietropaolo is an Italian art historian of modern and contemporary art, and an independent curator. She has held curatorial positions at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, among others. Recently, she co-curated the collateral event of the 2019 Venice Biennale Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy. Her writings have appeared in numerous exhibition catalogues and in magazines such as Flash Art International, ARTnews, Art in America and Arte e Critica. She is Editor-at-Large at Brooklyn Rail.