Sergio Julio Rubira Gutiérrez is an associate professor of Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and a professor of curatorial studies in the Master in Curatorial Studies at the University of Navarra. He is part of the curatorial team for the ARCO 40 Anniversary International Contemporary Art Fair. He has been deputy director general of Collection and Exhibitions of the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia (2017-2020), where he developed several programs such as the Centro de Investigaciones Colaborativas, IVAM Archiva and Variaciones sobre el plano and was a curator of Orientalism. The Construction of the Imaginary of the Near East and North Africa (2020); 1989. The end of the 20th century; Tiempos convulsos. Historias y microhistorias en la colección del IVAM; Matter, space and time: Julio González and the Avant-gardes; Case study: Miquel Navarro’s secret collection (2019); 1936–1976 Spain. Artistic avant-garde and social reality (2018); Ignasi Aballí. Case Study (2017). He has been member of the Advisory Committee of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León (MUSAC) (2017).

He was academic secretary of the Master’s Degree in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture (UAM, UCM and Museo Reina Sofía) from 2010 to 2017. He directed the Community of Madrid training program Madrid 45 from 2015 to 2017. He has been deputy director of the international photography magazine EXIT and currently he is member of its editorial board. He is also member of the editorial board of the journal Sin Objeto, University of Castilla-La Mancha. He is an art critic for El Cultural from the newspaper El Mundo. He was co-director of the Community of Madrid Image Symposium (2005-2009); of the Jornadas de Arte Español Contemporáneo, held at the Helga de Alvear Foundation, La Casa Encendida and the MAC Gas Natural Unión Fenosa (2012-13), and the course Comisariando el presente, La Casa Encendida (2013-2016). He founded and directed the Department of Investigation, Data, Documentation, Questioning and Causality (DIDDCC) of the Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo (CA2M), Móstoles (2016-2017).

He has curated exhibitions such as Palíndromo (DA2, Salamanca); The idea in a sign (Centro de Arte de Alcobendas, 2017); Collection XIII: Towards a new Museum of Contemporary Art (CA2M, Móstoles, 2016); Genealogies of punk, post-punk and against punk (CA2M, Móstoles, 2015); Impossible Show (Temporary Gallery, Cologne, 2013-14); El gabinete de un aficionado (Centre d’Art La Panera, 2013): Sexy Books (Matadero, Madrid, 2012); Contextos en desuso (Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida, Lleida, 2012); Sur le dandysme aujourd'hui (CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, 2010); Neighbouring environments (ARTIUM, Vitoria, 2008); NIT_CASM: Madrit! Entresijos y gallinejas (Center d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, 2007), Situations (Art Cologne, Venice Biennale, and Centre d'Art La Panera, 2015); Imagining Writing History, with Mónica Portillo (CA2M, Móstoles, 2009); and La mirada a estratos, with Estrella de Diego (Museo de Zamora, 2003). He has written in many publications for institutions such as OK Center (Linz), MUDAM (Luxembourg), Centre Pompidou-Metz, Venice Biennale, Kunsthall Grenland (Porsgrunn, Norway), MoMA PS1 (New York), Tranzit (Prague), FRAC Bourgogne and Musée de Beaux Arts de Dijon, among others.