Ionit Behar is the assistant curator at DePaul Art Museum (DPAM), Chicago, and the co-founder and co-director of Behar X Schachman, a Chicago-based curatorial and exhibition design agency. Most recently she curated the site-specific installation Claudia Peña Salinas: Quetzalli at DPAM; Fuera de tiempo at SUBTE (Montevideo, UY); and Ellen Rothenberg: ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant at Spertus Institute. Behar was born in Israel, raised in Uruguay, and lives in Chicago.