Mathilde Walker-Billaud —
is a curator working across media and contexts, with a special interest in time-based art and discursive practices.

MWB’s projects grapple with Western aesthetics of invisibility and silence, revealing sidelined yet significant forms of knowledge and experiences. 
Dialogic, process-based and intersectional in her approach to materiality and representation, she focuses on contemporary art practices that are multi-faceted, cross-disciplinary, and difficult to categorize.

Recently, she curated the xxxiv edition of the Ateliers Internationaux and the exhibition Le bruit de la chair. Partition pour gina pane atFrac des Pays de la Loire, France (Gina Pane, Ohan Breiding, Jota Mombaça, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Patricia Allio and H·Alix Sanyas).

In 2020-21, she organized  the multidisciplinary program Jeanne Duval. A Spectre in a French Landscape at Pompidou Center in Paris (Robin Mitchell, Émilie Notéris, Maud Sulter, Euridice Zaituna Kala), and the exhibition The World Is Gone, I Must Carry You at Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm (Susan Hiller, Bethan Huws, Sky Hopinka, Gala Porras-Kim, Krista Belle Stewart).

Between 2014 to 2019, she curated and hosted the film and lecture series What You Get Is What You See at UnionDocs, with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Melanie Bonajo, nora chipaumire, Ilana Harris-Babou, Irene Lusztig, Martha Rosler, Lucy Sante.

With filmmaker Courtney Stephens, MWB co-curated films programs, illustrated lectures and live documentaries such as Surface Knowledge Flaherty NYC (Sara Cwynar, Ellie Ga, Barbara Hammer, Ana Mendieta) or Women in Public (Nathalie Léger, Charlotte Prodger, Elvia Wilk).

She is currently Curator of Programs and Engagement at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City. She held positions as Assistant Editor at the National Centre for Dance in Paris, Program Director at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York City, Program Coordinator at Villa Gillet (Lyon/NYC festival “Walls and Bridges”) and Creative Manager at company nora chipaumire in NYC.

Her writing and voice have appeared in BOMB Magazine, ART PAPERS, and the podcast Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything. 

She received an M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College in 2019.

Her name is pronounced <muh·tild waa·kr bee·yoh>.