Pablo Helguera recording Parallel Lives at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2003 [Enlarge in New Window]

Pablo Helguera: The School of Panamerican Unrest

Email Pablo Helguera at phelguera@aol.com

Links:

Panamerican Virtual Forum | The School of Panamerican Unrest | The School of Panamerican Unrest at Universes-in-Universe.com |

Bio:

Pablo Helguera, a native of Mexico City, is a New York–based artist whose work spans photography to drawing, performance to installation. His work has been extensively exhibited internationally and reviewed by the New York Times, Art in America, Artforum, Flash Art, Tema Celeste, and Art Nexus, amongst others. Helguera has worked for over 15 years in US museums and is the Director of Adult and Academic Programs at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He was the head of public programs at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, was co-director of the international forum of contemporary art experts in ARCO, Madrid, and director of the 5th Symposium of Contemporary Art Theory in Mexico City. He has been juror of biennial exhibitions of Guatemala, Costa Rica, and the national contemporary art competition of San Juan. He has written four books: Endingness (2005), Las Brujas de Tepoztlán (2007), The Pablo Helguera Manual of Contemporary Art Style (Spanish edition, 2005; English 2007), and a novel, The Boy Inside the Letter (2007). He is represented by Enrique Guerrero Gallery in Mexico City. He received a BFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago.

THIS PROJECT'S CATEGORIES: Visual > Installation | Fantasy & Myth | Politics | New York | 2005