Gerardo Mosquera is a freelance curator, critic, art historian, and writer based in Havana and Madrid. Advisor to the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and other international art centers, he is a member of the advisory council of several international magazines and journals. He was co-founder of the Havana Biennial (1984-1989), Adjunct Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York (1995-2009), and Artistic Director of PHotoEspaña in Madrid (2011-2013), among other positions. He has curated many international “perennials”, including the Johannesburg and the Liverpool Biennials, and more recently: Guangzhou Image Triennial 2021; 21st Paiz Biennial 2018, Guatemala; 3rd Today’s Documents 2016, Beijing; 4th Poly/Graphic San Juan Triennial 2015. Among his most recent exhibitions are: Hot Spot, Galleria Nazionale, d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, 2022; Useless. Machines for Thinking, Dreaming, and Seeing, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, 2019, and Adiós Utopia. Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950, The Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, 2017, and The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2017. He curated a Wifredo Lam solo show for the XXIII Sâo Paulo Biennial, 1997. Author and editor of numerous texts and books on art and art theory, such as: Arte desde América Latina (y otros pulsos globales), Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 2021; Caminar con el diablo. Textos sobre arte, internacionalización y culturas, Madrid: Exit, 2010; Over Here. International Perspectives on Art and Culture, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004 (editor); Beyond the Fantastic. Contemporary Art Criticism from Latin America (editor and contributor), London and Cambridge: INIVA and MIT Press,1995. He has lectured in five continents and has organized several international conferences. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, in 1990.

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