Gerardo Mosquera

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Resides in Havana. Independent art critic, curator, and art historian. Associate Curator of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Advisor to the Academy of Fine Arts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Member of the editorial boards of the magazines: Art Nexus, Atlántica, Calabar, Ideas & Ensaios, Nka and Third Text. Founder of the Havana Biennial and member of the organizing team of the first 3 editions: 1984, 1986 and 1989.

Gerardo Mosquera is a specialist, critic, curator, and independent art historian based in Havana who has headed the PHotoEspaña festival since 2011 and in the three upcoming editions. Mosquera enjoys worldwide prestige in the world of photography.

Born in Havana, Cuba, where he graduated in Art History from the university, Mosquera is the founder, among many other activities, of the Havana biennials, the city in which he directed the research department of the Wifredo Lam Center.

Among his works as exhibition curator stand out: States of Exchange, London (2008); La cuadratura del Cono. Border Jam, Montevideo (2007); Transpacífico. Un encuentro en Santiago, Santiago de Chile (2007); Liverpool Biennial International (2006); Cordially Invited, Utrecht (2004); Panorama da Arte Brasileira (Desarrumado). 19 Desarranjos, Sao Paulo (2003), Rio de Janeiro (2003), Recife (2004), Vigo (2005); CiudadMúltipleCity. ArtePanamá (2003) (international urban art project); Territorios ausentes, Madrid (2000); No es sólo lo que ves. Pervirtiendo el minimalismo, Madrid (2000); Cildo Meireles, New York (1999); Cinco continentes y una ciudad, Mexico City (1998) (2000); Important & Exportant, II Johannesburg Biennial, (1997); Wifredo Lam, XXIII Sao Paulo Biennial (1996); Ante América, Bogotá (1992), Caracas (1993), New York (1993), San Diego (1993), San Francisco (1994), Kansas (1994), San José (1994); Los Hijos de Guillermo Tell. Contemporary Cuban Artists, Caracas (1991), Bogotá (1991); The Nearest Edge of the World. Art and Cuba Now, Boston (1990), New York (1991), Richmond (1991), Chicago (1992), Atlanta (1994), among several other places in the United States; África dentro de Cuba: 6 Artists, Luanda (1986), Maputo (1986), Havana (1986).

Among his most notable publications are: Copiar el edén. Recent Art in Chile (editor), Santiago (2006); ciudadMULTIPLEcity. Urban Art and Global Cities: an Experiment in Context (co-editor), Amsterdam (2005); Over Here. International Perspectives on Art and Culture (co-editor), Cambridge and London (2004); Beyond the Fantastic. Contemporary Art Criticism from Latin America (editor), London (1995); Contracandela, Caracas (1995); Del pop al post (editor), Havana (1993); El diseño se definió en Octubre, Havana (1989), Bogotá (1992). He has published more than 600 essays, articles, and commentaries in books, catalogs, and periodical publications from many countries. He has organized and participated in numerous international symposiums, and given lectures and seminars at universities and other institutions in over a hundred cities. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, in 1990, the award for the ten best books published in Cuba that same year, and the Argentine chapter of the International Association of Art Critics selected him in 1998 as the most important Latin American critic with a notable trajectory (ex aequo with Paulo Herkenhoff).

Mosquera is founder of the Havana Biennial and one of the curators of the new Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. He has directed the meeting of critics and photography researchers 'Trasatlántica,' one of the sections of PHotoEspaña, held in Mexico City. In Spain he took charge of the direction of 'El patio de mi casa,' a multidisciplinary proposal that bridged the gap between Cordobese idiosyncrasy and the international art scene. He has curated projects and exhibitions in the United Kingdom, Chile, Brazil, the Netherlands, Colombia, and Panama.

Regular contributor to international art magazines such as 'Casa de las Américas' and 'Art Journal,' he is also an expert in video and other audiovisual media, so that his management will bolster the multidisciplinary character of PHE. "His profile points to a pluridisciplinary discourse and will offer us the opportunity to collaborate with international institutions," highlights Claude Bussac. "Mosquera—he adds—has already been working for some months on the theme of the next edition but, although we don't yet want to make the slogan and main lines public, his curriculum can give us a clue about where it will go."

Advisor to the Academy of Fine Arts of the State of the Netherlands, member of the editorial boards of several international magazines, Mosquera has published more than 600 essays, articles, and commentaries in publications from many countries.