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Carlos E. Palacios is a Venezuelan curator and art critic.
Palacios holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, and a Masters Diploma of Advanced Studies from the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, in the Doctoral program in History, Theory and Criticism of the Arts. Palacios obtained a BA in Art History from the Universidad Central de Venezuela.
Palacios was Chief Curator at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City between 2011 and 2013; and curator of contemporary art at the Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros between 2005 and 2010. Palacios is currently a professor of the Master in Artistic Production at the Universidad Autónoma de Morelos and the Centro Morelense de las Artes, CEMA, in Cuernavaca, México.
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill is a British/Venezuelan art historian and curator of modern and contemporary art, specializing in Latin American art.
Fajardo-Hill holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Essex, England and a MA in 20th century Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England. Fajardo-Hill is the Chief Curator of the Space Collection, Irvine, California, and Abstractioninaction.com, and the Guest Curator at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, co-curating with Andrea Giunta The Political Body: Radical Women in Latin American Art 1960-1985, a survey of radical artistic practices by women artists in Latin America and Latina artists, to open in 2017 under the umbrella of the Getty initiative PST LA/LA.
Fajardo-Hill was the Chief Curator at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in Long Beach, California between 2009 and 2012. She was the Director and Chief Curator of the Cisneros Fontanals Arts Foundation (CIFO), a non-profit organization devoted to the promotion of contemporary art from Latin America; and the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection, an international collection of contemporary art, Miami, Florida between 2005 and 2008. She was General Director of Sala Mendoza, an alternative space for contemporary art in Caracas, Venezuela between 1997 and 2001.
Claudio Iglesias is an Argentine art critic, curator, translator and editor living in Buenos Aires.
Iglesias holds a Bachelor Degree in Literature from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and a Bachelor of Arts from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Iglesias has been an advisor at the Nuevo Museo Energía de Arte Contemporáneo since its foundation and is part of the editorial collective Actividad de Uso.
Since 2012 he has worked as guest professor in the Art Department of the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires. His essays have been published in magazines such as ramona, Otra Parte, A*Desk and Manifesta Journal, among others, as well as in various exhibition catalogues. He edited and translated Antología del decandentismo francés, 1880-1900 (Caja Negra Editora, 2007) and was awarded the fellowship Beca para Multiplicadores Culturales, Goethe Institute.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director of Abstraction
Gregory Attaway is the Director of Abstraction in Action and the SPACE Collection in Irvine, California.
Attaway holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from California State University, Long Beach. He has been with the SPACE Collection and Abstraction in Action since their inception and has coordinated multiple exhibitons, publications and projects such as Monochrome Undone, Irvine, CA (2015), The Soft Gesture by Ana Belén Cantoni, Santa Ana, CA (2014), Marcolina Dipierro: Interrupted Line, Folsom, CA (2014) and Mariela Scafati: Pinturas done estoy: 1998-2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2013).
Job Titles:
- Independent Curator, Editor
Kiki Mazzucchelli is an independent curator, editor and writer working between London and São Paulo.
She holds an MA in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College and is currently a PhD candidate at TrAIN (University of the Arts). She is currently a member of the curatorial team for Sitelines, Site Santa Fe Biennial (2016), New Mexico. Among her latest exhibition projects are Tonico Lemos Auad's solo exhibition at Pivô (São Paulo, 2015) and Pia Camil, Pablo Helguera and Pedro Reyes at MIMA (Middlesbrough, 2015), co-curated with Alix Collingwood-Swinburn.
She is one of the authors of Contemporary Art Brazil, (London: Transglobe, 2012); Art Cities of the Future: 21st Centuries Avant-Gardes (London: Phaidon, 2013); and Brazil: a celebration of Brazil's contemporary culture and a regular contributor to international publications including Art Review (UK), Flash Art (Italy), Mousse (Italy) and Terremoto (Mexico).
Oscar Roldán-Alzate is a political scientist with an interest in research and cultural analysis, focusing on history, visual studies and art theory.
Roldán-Alzate holds an MFA and a Master of Political Science from the Universidad de Antioquia. Roldán-Alzate has been the chief curator of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín since 2008 and has imparted classes at Universidad de Antioquia since 2003.
Job Titles:
- Video Editing & Social Media