Mathilde Walker-Billaud is a New York-based curator and cultural producer working across media and contexts, with a special interest in time-based art and listening practices. She is Curator of Programs and Engagement at the American Folk Art Museum in New York. Previously, she held positions as Assistant Editor at the National Centre for Dance, Program Director at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York, Program Coordinator at Villa Gillet (NYC festival “Walls and Bridges”), Workshop Curator at UnionDocs, and Creative Manager at company nora chipaumire. Walker-Billaud curated exhibitions, lectures, screenings, performances and educational initiatives in various institutions including Frac des Pays de la Loire, Tours de la Rochelle/Centre des Monuments Nationaux, Pompidou Center (France), Bonniers Konsthall (Sweden), Bard College and Colgate University, UnionDocs and Triangle Arts , Anthology Film Archives and Metrograph (USA), with contemporary artists and writers such as Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Nora Chipaumire, Sara Cwynar, Ellie Ga, Ilana Harris-Babou, Susan Hiller, Bethan Huws, Sky Hopinka, Barbara Hammer, Alison S.M. Kobayashi, Nathalie Léger, Ana Mendieta, Gala Porras-Kim, Luc Sante, Courtney Stephens, Krista Belle Stewart, Euridice Zaituna Kala. Her most recent projects are the 2021 multidisciplinary program "Jeanne Duval. A Spectre in a French Landscape" at Pompidou Center in Paris, and the 2023 exhibition "Le bruit de la chair. Partition pour gina pane" at Frac des Pays de la Loire in Nantes. 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.