Basualdo is a 2013 Fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership in NYC. [4] In 2006, Basualdo initiated two exhibition series at the Philadelphia Museum of Art titled Notations and Live Cinema, both of which are devoted to the permanent collection and video. In 2021 he curated the retrospective Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, co-organized with Scott Rothkopt and the Whitney Museum. [5] He was the lead organizer of Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens that represented the United States at the 2007 Venice Biennale, where it was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. He organized a survey exhibition of the work of the Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto (2009), a collaboration between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and MAXXI. Basualdo was part of the curatorial team for Documenta 11, the 50th Venice Biennale, and conceived and curated Tropicalia: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture, which traveled from the MCA Chicago to the Barbican Gallery in London (2004-2005) as well as the Bronx Museum in New York and the Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro (2006-2007).[6] In 2012 Basualdo curated Dancing Around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg and Duchamp, an exhibition about the relationships between the work of Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg.[7] In 2021, he began a collaboration with Penn Medicine to present contemporary works by Philadelphia artists across ten floors of their new facility designed by Foster + Partners. [8]
Among his many publications are Giuseppe Penone: The Life of Forms, 2019, Gagosian Gallery and Rizzoli; and Cy Twombly: Fifty days at liam, 2018, Philadelphia Museum of Art. [9]
