Ami Barak is an independent curator and art critic based in Paris. Former director of the Frac (regional collection of contemporary art) Languedoc-Roussillon from 1993 to 2002 and General Associated Curator of Public Treasuries, 20 Years of Creation in the Fracs (2003), he was also the President of the International Association of Contemporary Art Curators (IKT) from 2002 to 2005. Former Head of the Visual Art Department at the City Council of Paris (2003-2008), Barak was the Artistic Director and Coordinator of Nuit Blanche (Sleepless Night contemporary art festival) in Paris in 2003 and 2004 and initiated the public commissioning program Art for the Tram, which featured projects by Sophie Calle, Frank Gehry, Dan Graham, Peter Kogler, Claude Lévêque, Christian Boltanski, Bertrand Lavier, Angela Bulloch and Didier Fiuza Faustino. Over the past twenty years, he curated numerous international exhibitions, the most recent of which include House Trip, ArtForum Berlin (2007); Can Art Do More? (2008, Jerusalem, co-curated with Bernard Blistène); Re-construction, Young Artists Biennial 3 (2008, Bucharest); Americans in New York 1/2/3, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris 2008-2014; For Ever Young (2008, Anne+, Paris); Elixirs of Panacea (2010, Palais Benedictine, Fecamp); The Borrowed Garden (2010, Gardens of Palais Royal, Paris); Romances sans paroles (2010, Kunsthalle, Mulhouse); Communism Never Happened (2011, CuratedBy, Charim Galerie, Vienna); Play Time, a selection of works from the Klosterfelde Collection (2011, L.A.C., Sigean); Fremde Überall, a selection of works from the Pomeranz Collection (2012, JMW, Vienna); Honey, I Rearranged the Collection, Philippe Cohen Collection (2013, Petach Tikva Museum of Art; Passage de Retz, Paris and MAMM, Moscow in 2014); An Estranged Paradise, Chinese Contemporary Art from the DSL Collection (2014, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow) and Vues arrière, nébuleuse stellaire et le bureau de la propagande extérieure, a personal show of Taryn Simon (2015, Jeu de paume, Paris). In 2011, he was the co-curator of the Romanian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale. In 2010 he curated Art for the World [the Expo], the City of Forking Paths, the Sculpture Project of the Expo Boulevard at the World Expo Shanghai 2010, featuring twenty monumental sculptures of Chinese and International artists. He is currently a Lecturer at the Paris Sorbonne I University and works as an art adviser.