SELECTION COMMITTEE

Fernando Farina (Rosario, 1958) has graduated as a Licenciado in Fine Arts (with a major in Theory and Art Criticism) from the National University of Rosario (UNR). Starting in 1999 until 2007 he was appointed as the Director of the Municipal Museum of Fine Arts Juan B. Castagnino, and from 2004 –year in which it was founded- until 2007, as the Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Rosario (Macro). Farina is a professor of Sociology of the Arts at the School of Fine Arts (UNR), the Director of Fondo Nacional de las Artes (The National Endowment for the Arts) and a member of the International Association of Art Critics. He was the curator of the Argentinean section at the II Bienal del Fin del Mundo, 2009 (Biennial of the End of the World) and was appointed as Secretary of Culture of the city of Rosario between 2007 and 2009. As a curator and independent critic, Farina has organized various exhibitions, has held conferences and talks, has published extensive papers and books, and has participated as member of various Selection Committees in national and international awards. Farina has carried out a variety of research projects and was awarded scholarships from the UNR, the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, the Argentinean Secretary of Culture, and the governments of France and Spain.

Eva Grinstein (Buenos Aires, 1973) is an art critic and independent curator. Her most recent curatorial projects include: Operación Pasamontañas in Valdivia, as a part of the Chile Triennial; the exhibition Sagrada Familia, with works by Leo Chiachio and Daniel Giannone, at the Cultural Center of Spain in Guatemala; the exhibition Lust for life for the Arteamericas Fair in Miami and the show Bosque at the Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires. Grinstein was appointed as director of the Foster Catena Award for Contemporary Photography; and she is the co-curator of the project Arte en el Plata, developed on the walls of the del Plata Building in Buenos Aires. Grinstein also coordinates art clinics and workshops.

Sonia Becce (Buenos Aires). In 2003 Becce was the curator of Guillermo Kuitca`s Retrospective at the Reina Sofía Art Center in Madrid and at the Malba, Buenos Aires. Since 2007 Becce is a member of CIFO`s Advisory Committee (Cisneros Fontanals, Museum) Miami, Florida. She was a member of the Selection Committee for the Chandon Award during 2006 and 2007. In 2009 she was appointed as a member of the “The Award for Curatorial Excellence” Committee, Bard College, USA. In 2008 she was the curator of the show “Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Somewhere/Nowhere” at the Malba, that will also be exhibited at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico DF, in 2010. She has recently curated the show “Talismán se busca” Parts I and II, Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires and the group exhibition “Vamos”, hosting Argentinean and Colombian artists at the Nueveochenta Gallery, Bogota, Colombia. Becce coordinated the four editions of the “Guillermo Kuitca Scholarship Program for Young Artists”.

Adriano Pedrosa (Brasil) is a curator, publisher and writer for Artforum, Art Nexus and Frieze, among other important journals and magazines. He was the curator of the da Pampulha Art Museum, Belo Horizonte (2001-2003); and adjunct curator of the 24th Sao Paulo Biennial (1998); co–curator of the 27th Sao Paulo Biennial (2006); curator of InSite_05, San Diego/Tijuana (2005) and artistic director of the 2nd Triennial Poli/Gráfica; San Juan, Puerto Rico (2009).

Jaime Cerón (Colombia) holds a Master’s degree in Art History and Theory and is a professor of Visual Arts at the National University. Cerón has focused in five different activities: teaching, art criticism and curatorship, research and cultural management.

He has taught at the different Art Schools of the following universities: Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Andes, Academia Superior de Artes (Bogota), Javeriana and the National University. From 1997 until 2007 he worked as Art Manager for the Instituto Distrital de Cultura y Turismo and nowadays he works as independent art critic and curator. He is a member of the Publishing Board of Arcadia magazine and Arteria newspaper, where he also regularly publishes his articles.

Orly Benzacar
Director of the gallery Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires