Gerardo Mosquera
(Havana, Cuba, 1945) Curator, critic, art historian, and writer based in Havana and Madrid. He is a member of the advisory board of several international magazines. He was co-founder of the Havana Biennial (1984-1989), curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1995-2007), and artistic director of PhotoEspaña, Madrid (2011-2013). He has curated numerous biennials and international exhibitions, among which are: Hot Spot. Caring for a Burning World (2022, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome); Guanghzhou Image Triennial (2021); Useless. Machines for Thinking, Dreaming, and Seeing (The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, 2019); Vida. Gervasio Sánchez (several venues in Spain and Central America, 2016-2019); 21ª Bienal de Arte Paiz (Guatemala, 2018); Adiós Utopia. Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art since 1950 (Museum of Fine Arts of Houston and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2017). He has authored numerous texts and books, some of his most recent include: L’art à l’ère de la globalisation (Centre Pompidou, París, 2022 —participant—); A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latino/a Art (Wiley Blackwell, Hoboken, 2021 —participant—); Arte desde América Latina (y otros pulsos globales) (Ediciones Cátedra, Madrid, 2020).
