Awards & Winners

Gerardo Mosquera

Date of Birth 1945-11
Place of Birth Havana
(Cuba, Cuba Island)
Nationality Cuba
Profession Curator, Art critic
Gerardo Mosquera is a freelance curator and art critic based in Havana, Cuba. He was one of the organisers of the first Havana Biennial in 1984 and remained central to the curatorial team until he resigned in 1989. Since then, his activity turned to be mainly international: he has been traveling, lecturing and curating exhibitions in more than 70 countries. Mosquera was curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, from 1995 to 2009. Also since 1995 he is advisor in the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kusten in Amsterdam. His publications include several books on art and art theory, and more than 500 articles, reviews and essays have appeared in such magazines as Aperture, Art & Text, Art Criticism, Art Journal, Art Nexus, Atlantica, Cahiers, Casa de las Americas, ArtForum, Kunstforum, La Jornada Semanal, Lapiz, Neue Bildende Kunst, Oxford Art Journal, Parkett, Plural, Poliester, Third Text, etc. Mosquera has edited Beyond the Fantastic: Contemporary Art Criticism from Latin America and co-edited Over Here: International Perspectives on Art and Culture. A collection of his essays on art, internationalization and cultures was published recently in Madrid. He is the current artistic director of PHotoEspaña, Madrid.

Awards by Gerardo Mosquera

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