PONENTES AUDITORIO ARTEBA'10

Beverly Adams is Curator of the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection, a collection of 20th and 21st century art from Latin America in Phoenix, Arizona. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin. She has taught 20th century Latin American art history courses at Arizona State University and was the Curator of Latin American Art at the Phoenix Art Museum. Recent publications include, “Latin American Art at the Americas Society or A Principality of Its Own,” in A Principality of its Own: 40 Years of Visual Arts at the Americas Society (New York: Americas Society, 2006) the exhibition catalogue, Constructing a Poetic Universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle collection of Latin American Art. Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2007 and “The School of the North: The New York Graphic Workshop in New York” in The New York Graphic Workshop: 1964 – 1970 (Blanton Museum, UT Austin, 2009). She was a curatorial interlocutor for InSite 2005: Art Practices in the Public Domain, San Diego / Tijuana and is currently on the editorial board for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art: A Digital Archive and Publications Project. back

Montserrat Albores studied visual arts at ESMERALDA in Mexico City and received a master’s degree in curatorial studies at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in New York City. In 2001 she was part of the curatorial team of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Rufino Tamayo, and in 2004 was director of the OM Gallery. In 2002 she took part in the educational project of Documenta11. She currently works as a free-lance curator and is co-founder of the curatorial project Petra. Among her most recent exhibitions: “You don’t live here anymore” (2006) for the museum of the Center for Curatorial Studies, New York; “Rebecka espera, Åsa da y Sten aloja” [Rebecka waits, Asa gives and Sten provides accomodation](2007) for SAPS, Mexico City; “Doppelgänger. El doble de la realidad [Doppelgänger. Reality’s Double]2007) for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Vigo, Spain – an exhibition that won her that institution’s young curator prize; and “Misfeasance?” (2009) for the Museo de Arte Raúl Anguiano in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. back

Marcelo Brodsky, photographer. Author of Good Memory and photo essays that together with Nexus Memory in construction, the debate on the ESM form trilogy dedicated to the memory of state terrorism in Argentina. In 2009 he edited and presented visual mapping, a series of dialogues with five visual artists. He exhibited his work in over 35 countries participated in Biennial international and was invited to speak at various universities in Argentina, the United States and Europe. back

Michèle Faguet is a writer and curator currently based in Berlin, where she is correspondent for the New York art review Artforum. She has been director of: the Or Gallery, Vancouver (2005-07); Espacio la Rebeca, Bogotá (2002-05); La Panadería, Mexico (2000-01); curator of the Alliance Française, Bogotá (2004-05); and exhibition coordinator of the Swiss Institute, New York (1997-99). She has worked with a varied group of international artists, among them Sharon Hayes, Miguel Calderón, Javier Téllez, Kristin Lucas, and Phil Collins as well as Chilean artists such as Cristóbal Lehyt, José Luis Villablanca, Johanna Unzueta, Juan Céspedes, Felipe Mujica, and Cristián Silva. Since receiving her master’s degree in Art History from Columbia University in New York, Faguet has been a professor of the theory and history of art at the Art Department of the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (2002-03), a guest curator at the Banff Center (Canada), and guest professor at the California College of the Arts (San Francisco) and the Dutch Art Institute (Utrecht). She has published numerous articles on contemporary art, with special interest in the contextualization of recent practices in Chile and Colombia. Her recent texts include “New York, Capital of the Third World,” “Local People: Johanna Unzueta,” Queens Museum of Art, New York, July 2009; “Pornomiseria or How Not to Make a Documentary Film,” “Afterall,” London, Summer 2009; “Soy mi madre: [I Am My Mother] Conversation [sic] entre Phil Collins y Michèle Faguet,” “El Tiempo Celeste,” Mexico, Spring 2009; and “Je est un autre: la estetización de la miseria,” [“’I’ Is an Other: the Estheticization of Squalor], “Ensayos sobre Arte Contemporáneo” en Colombia 2008 [Essays on Contemporary Colombian Art], Universidad de los Andes, 2008. She is a current recipient of the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. back

Isabel García Pérez de Arce, (1972, Santiago, Chile) is an artist and curator. She served as director of the Center for Arts Documentation of the Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda from its founding in 2006 up until this year. Within this institutional setting she created an archive of documents related to contemporary Chilean art of the last thirty years, in bibliographic and audovisual collections, freely accessible to students and scholars. She devised the program “Archivo Abierto” [Open Archive], a series of exhibitions and seminars reflecting on the concept of an archive, to expand its uses and its academic, historical and poetic possibilities.She was invited to the 28th São Paulo Biennial and has participated in various other curatorships, publications and international seminars. She is currently setting up a research internship for the Museo de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. back

Eduardo Gil. was born in Caracas on July 30, 1973. He earned a degree in Civil Engineering in 1997. He now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.He has participated in shows in New York at the Queens Museum, the Bronx Museum, the Museo del Barrrio in Manhattan, and the gallery Exit Art; and in Mexico City at the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros. This August he will have a solo show at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City. back

Nicolás Guagnini is an Argentine born New York based artist, filmmaker and writer. He was a cofounder of Orchard, a cooperative gallery in the Lower East Side; and of Union Gaucha Productions, an independent and experimental artists' film company. He has exhibited extensively in the US, Latin America and Europe. Forthcoming shows this semester include commissions by the Museum of Modern Art in New York and its counterpart in Sao Paulo, Brazil. His writing has been published in October, Texte Zur Kunst, Parkett, and Cabinet magazine; as well as in various exhibition catalogues. He is a professor at Barnard College, has organized a conference at Yale University and is a frequent lecturer at Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. back

Carlos Motta was born in Colombia and has now settled in New York. He has had solo shows at P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, New York; ICA, Philadelphia; Konsthall C, Stockholm; Fundación Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá; and Art in General, New York; and has been included in recent group shows such as the Tenth Lyon Biennale; Biennale Cuvée 2010 and OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz; and in “Geographies of Transterritories,” San Francisco Art Institute. Motta received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008. www.la-buena-vida.info; and www.carlosmotta.com back

Taiyana Pimentel. Lives and Works in Mexico City, she is the director of Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros. Between her last exhibitions: “Institutional Empowerment”, Colectivo Tercerunquinto, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, México, 2008; “Project for Ecatepec” (Injured), Fundación Colección Jumex, México, 2007; “1549 State’s Crimes”, Santiago Sierra, Centro Cultural Tlatelolco, México 2007; “Bridge”, Francis Alÿs, La Habana-Key West. Between 1999 and 2001, she Works at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Rufino Tamayo as curator of “Sala 7. Contemporary Art Projects”, among others: “I am Happy because Everyone Loves Me”, Javier Téllez; “Better Life Corp.”, Minerva Cuevas, “465 Remunerated People”, Santiago Sierra and “Adolescent Young Person”, Miguel Calderon. She recently participated at the program “9 curators present their projects”, Buenos Aires, Argentina-Santiago de Chile and has been appointed as curator of Plataforma 2011-2012. back

Gabriela Rangel M. holds an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, an M.A. in Media and Communications Studies from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, and a B.A. in Film Studies from the International Film School at San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. She is currently the Director of Visual Arts and Curator at the Americas Society. She has contributed to art periodicals such as Art Nexus, Arte al Día, Trans and Parkette. She is the co-editor of A Principality of Its Own: Forty Years of Visual Arts at the Americas Society (2006). Her essays have appeared in Da Adversidade Vivemos: Artistes d’Amerique Latine (Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2001), Liliana Porter (Centro de Arte Recoleta, Buenos Aires, 2004), Claudio Perna: Arte Social (Galería de Arte Nacional, 2004), and Arte no es Vida (Museo del Barrio, New York, 2008). Recent projects include Marta Minujin: MINUCODEs, co-curated with Jose Blondet (Americas Society, 2010), Gordon Matt-Clark, Undoing Spaces, co-curated with Tatiana Cuevas (MAM Sao Paulo, 2010) and Dias & Riedweg: And It becomes something else (Americas Society, 2009) and Paula Trope and the Meninos do Morrinho (Americas Society, 2008). back

Tahía Rivero has served as the curator of the Colección Mercantil in Caracas since 1999. From 1994 to 1999 she was the president of the Fundación Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas. She worked as a researcher and museographer in the [Caracas] National Art Gallery from 1981 to 1986 and as an instructor at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas Cristóbal Rojas between 1983 and 1987. As a free-lance curator she has mounted exhibitions of contemporary Venezuelan art in the United States and in Latin America. She studied architecture at the Universidad de Los Andes in Mérida and works as a three-dimensional draughtsman, having graduated from the European Drawing Institute in Rome in 1980. back

Pablo Vargas Lugo was born in Mexico City in 1968. His work has been shown in over a hundred solo or group shows around the world. Prominent among these were his solo shows at the Museo Carrillo Gil, at the Los Angeles County Museum, at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin (Texas) and his participations in the 26th São Paulo Biennial and the Porto Alegre Biennial, among many others. He currently lives and works in Lima. back