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Gerardo Mosquera

Mosquera by Wang Guofeng. }} Gerardo Mosquera (born 1945 in Havana, Cuba) is a freelance curator, critic, art historian, and writer based in Havana, Cuba.

He was one of the organizers of the first Havana Biennial in 1984 and remained central to the curatorial team until he resigned in 1989. Since then, his activity has been mainly international, traveling, lecturing and curating exhibitions in 80 countries. Mosquera was adjunct curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, from 1995 to 2009. Since 1995 he has been advisor in the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (State Academy of Fine Arts) in Amsterdam. His publications include books on art and art theory (and a short stories' volume), and 600 articles, reviews and essays have appeared in magazines, including: ''Art Nexus'', ''Cahiers'', ''Lápiz'', ''Neue Bildende Kunst'', ''Oxford Art Journal'', ''Poliester'', ''Third Text''. Among other volumes, Mosquera has edited [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/beyond-fantastic ''Beyond the Fantastic: Contemporary Art Criticism from Latin America''] and co-edited (with Jean Fisher) ''Over Here: International Perspectives on Art and Culture''. His theoretical essays – which have been influential in discussing art’s cultural dynamics in an internationalized world, and contemporary Latin American art – are in English, but have been collected in books in Caracas and Madrid in Spanish, and in Chinese in Beijing. Mosquera was the Artistic Director of PHotoEspaña, Madrid (2011–2013), the Chief Curator of the 4th Poly/Graphic San Juan Triennial (2015-2016), co-curator of the 3rd Documents, Beijing (2016) and co-curator of the Guangzhou Image Triennial (2021). Provided by Wikipedia
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