Carolina Ariza is an exhibition curator and researcher.

In 2018 she defended her PhD thesis at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, on the artistic resurgence of secondary histories in Colombia in the wake of the siege of the Palace of Justice in 1985.
In 2019 she was a finalist for the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) research grant, awarded to art theoreticians and critics, following the development (publication and exhibition) of her project Tisseuses de mémoire. Les artistes femmes et leur participation à l’écriture de l’histoire (Memory weavers: Women artists and their involvement in writing history).
She curated the exhibitions Tisseuses de mémoire (Espace Arte Faktos, Paris, 2019) and Murmures et visions. Une déambulation en Amérique latine (IESA Arts & Culture, Paris, 2016); she was also in charge of the Latin American section of Solo Projects at the SWAB Art Fair in Barcelona (2014 and 2015) and was appointed research supervisor for Latin America at the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Georges-Pompidou for the “Research and Globalisation” project.
She also contributed tothe acquisition of Antonio Caro’s piece Aquínocabeelarte (Artdoesnotfithere, 1972) by the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Georges-Pompidou.