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Art critic, historian and independent curator, Gerardo Mosquera lives in Havana. He is Adjunct Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; advisor to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of The Netherlands; member of the editorial boards of the magazines Art Nexus, Atlántica, Calabar, Ideas & Ensaios, Nka and Third Text. Founder of Havana's Bienal and member of the organisation team in its first three editions: 1984, 1986 and 1989.

Among his most recent exhibitions: ‘States of Exchange', INIVA, London, 2008; ‘Border Jam', Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Museo Municipal Juan Manuel Blanes, Centro Cultural de España, Museo y Archivo Histórico Municipal (Cabildo), public space, Montevideo, 2007; ‘Transpacífico. Un encuentro en Santiago', Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda, Santiago, Chile, 2007; Liverpool Biennial International 2006; ‘Cordially Invited', BAK and Centraal Museum Utrecht, 2004; ‘Panorama da Arte Brasileira (Desarrumado). 19 Desarranjos', Museu da Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, 2003, Paço Imperial, Río de Janeiro, 2003, Museo de Arte Moderno Aloísio Magalhaes, Recife, 2004, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, 2005; ‘CiudadMúltipleCity. ArtePanamá 2003' (international urban art project); ‘Territorios ausentes', Casa de América, Madrid, 2000; ‘No es sólo lo que ves. Pervirtiendo el minimalismo', Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2000; ‘Cildo Meireles', New Museum, New York, 1999; ‘Cinco continentes y una ciudad', Museo de la Ciudad de México, 1998 y 2000; ‘Important & Exportant', 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, 1997; ‘Wifredo Lam', XXIII Bienal de Sao Paulo, 1996; ‘Ante América', Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, 1992, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, 1993, Queens Museum, New York, 1993, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, 1993, Yerbabuena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 1994, Spencer Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1994, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, 1994.

Among his publications: Copiar el Edén. Arte reciente en Chile (editor), Santiago, Chile, 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. Additionally, Gerardo Mosquera has published over 600 essays, articles and reviews in books, catalogues and periodicals in several countries. He has organised and taken part in numerous international symposiums, and lectured in conferences and seminars at universities and other institutions of a hundred cities. He was granted the Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, 1990, and the award of best ten published books in Cuba in the same year. In 1998, the Argentinean chapter of the International Association of Art Critics chose him as the Latin-American critic with the greatest career path (ex aequo with Paulo Herkenhoff).