David Barro (Ferrol, 1974) is the editor of DARDO, co-director of the contemporary art review DARDO magazine, an exhibition curator and art critic for El Cultural (El Mundo). As an exhibition curator he has held a total of 32 individual shows (Julian Opie, Caio Reisewitz, João Pedro Vale, Sandra Cinto, José Bechara, Vicente Blanco, etc.) and 28 collective ones, including A Roll of the Dice, Cristina Guerra Gallery (Lisbon); Sin título, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza; INJUVE 2008, Círculo de Bellas Artes; Antes de ayer y pasado mañana, Unión Fenosa-Gas Natural Museum; Del zero al 2005, From zero to 2005, Fundación Marcelino Botín; Sky Shout. La pintura después de la pintura y Sen Xeración, Auditorio de Galicia; Otras Alternativas, MARCO (Vigo); Videozoom Spagna, Sala 1 (Rome). BizArt Center (Shanghai) and Seducidos por el accidente, Fundación Luis Seoane.

He has been a founding member of the Institute of Contemporary Art (IAC) and of its first two boards, director of the magazine Arte y Parte and art director for events such as the Espacio Atlántico art fair in 2010 and the SOS 4.8 International Festival in 2011.