Carlos Basualdo is the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where he oversees the Museum's Department of Contemporary Art. He was the lead organizer of “Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens” that represented the United States at the 2009 Venice Biennale, where it was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. In 2010, he organized a survey exhibition of the work of the Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, a collaboration between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and MAXXI (Museo nazionale delle arti del secolo XXI), where it traveled in the spring of 2011. In 2012, he organized “Dancing Around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg and Duchamp,” which opened at the Barbican Gallery in 2013. Most recently, he organized “Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Exhibition” which opened it the summer of 2016. 

Basualdo was part of the curatorial teams for Documenta 11 and the 50th Venice Biennale, and he conceived and curated “Tropicalia: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture,” which traveled from the MCA Chicago to the Barbican Gallery in London (2004/2005) as well as the Bronx Museum in New York and the Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro (2006/2007). From 2010 until 2013, he worked as Curator at Large at MAXXI Arte in Rome, Italy.