A curator and art critic, Ami Barak has been the director of FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon and the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art – IKT. Until 2008, he was head of the visual art department of the Conseil de la Ville de Paris. As part of this function, he was coordinator and artistic director of the 2003 and 2004 editions of Nuit Blanche, and initiated the public commission program «Art for the Tram». Over the past 20 years, he has curated numerous exhibitions of international significance.
Recent projects include Art for the World [the Expo] the City of Forking Paths. This is the sculpture project of Expo Boulevard at World Expo Shanghai 2010, revealing twenty monumental sculptures from China and elsewhere. 23 May 2019: Officer in the Order of Cultural Merit of Romanian8, for his contribution to the success of the France-Romania season.