UMBRA

STÉPHANIE CANTARUTTI

Stéphanie Cantarutti is a graduate of the École du Louvre and the Institut national du patrimoine. She began her career in 2005 at the Maison Victor Hugo, before joining the team of the Musée Bourdelle in 2007, where she specialized in the study of the institution’s extensive photographic archives. There, she curated several notable exhibitions, including Isadora Duncan (1877–1927), Une sculpture vivante (2009–2010), Antoine Bourdelle… que du dessin (2011–2012), and Bourdelle intime (2013–2014).

Currently Chief Heritage Curator in charge of modern paintings at the Petit Palais, she has served as curator or co-curator of numerous exhibitions, including Albert Besnard. Belle Époque Modernities (2016–2017), Dutch Artists in Paris, 1789–1914 (2017–2018), organized in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum and the RKD, Ilya Repin. Painting the Soul of Russia (2021–2022), and Sarah Bernhardt. And Woman Created the Star (2023).

She is also co-curating an exhibition about the painter Eva Gonzalès at the Petit Palais (Fall 2026) and at the Van Gogh Museum (Spring 2027). 

ROXANE ILIAS

Roxane Ilias is a historian of modern and contemporary art, with a focus on abstract painting. She is currently writing her doctoral dissertation at Sorbonne Université on the transformations of the painted medium after World War II. Dividing her time between France and the United States, she has collaborated with and taught at several leading institutions. She was part of the curatorial team at the Dia Art Foundation in New York, and served as an assistant curator at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Alongside her curatorial work, she has held teaching positions at the École du Louvre and at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, as well as at Columbia University, NY, and Harvard University, MA. Her writings have been published in academic journals, including Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne and Les Cahiers de l’École du Louvre.

JOANA MASÓ

Joana Masó is an associate professor in French literature at the University of Barcelona and a researcher at the UNESCO Chair in Women, Development and Cultures. A curator and translator of several French publications on art and aesthetics into Spanish (Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Jean-Luc Nancy), her recent research focuses on women's artistic production in avant-garde movements, as well as on a new history of art brut. She has also published in French, Tosquelles. Soigner les institutions (L’Arachnéen, 2021), Nusch Eluard. Sous le surréalisme, les femmes (Seghers, 2024) and L'art, c'est la vie. Else von Freytag-Loringhoven critique de Marcel Duchamp (Macula, 2025).