Gerardo Mosquera

Gerardo Mosquera is an independent curator, art critic and historian, and writer, based in La Habana, Madrid and the world. Advisor to the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Holland, and other cultural institutions. Member of the boards of several international magazines and art centers. Co-founder of the La Habana Biennial and Co-curator of its three initial editions, he has been curator of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Artistic Director of PHotoEspaña, Madrid, and, recently, of the IV Poli/Gráfica Triennial of San Juan, the III Documents, Beijing, and the XXI Biennial of Art Paiz, Guatemala. He has organized other biennials and numerous international exhibitions around the world. His last exhibition, Useless. Machines for Dreaming, Thinking, and Seeing, is currently on display at The Bronx Museum, New York. He has published several books and more than 700 texts in other books, catalogs and magazines of various countries. Among other topics, he has reflected on issues of art, globalization and cultural dynamics, and on the notion of Latin American art. He has organized and participated in multiple international symposiums, and has given conferences and seminars in universities and other institutions in the five continents. He received the Guggenheim Scholarship, New York, in 1990.

^{photograph: Wang Guofeng}