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SILVIA KARMAN CUBI?? has held the position of Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Bass in Miami Beach since 2008. During her tenure, Ms. Cubi?? led a $12 million institutional transformation, complete with a building renovation by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Arata Isozaki and David Gauld. Throughout this time, the museum''s annual budget and full-time staff quadrupled and the board grew from three members to thirty. Prior to The Bass, Ms. Cubi?? was the Director of The Moore Space, Miami, from 2002-2008. She also held the position of Adjunct Curator at INOVA, the Institute of Visual Arts at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee.
Ms. Cubi?? has curated numerous exhibitions, lectured extensively, and has participated in grant panels and award selection committees, including serving as a juror for both the Guggenheim Museum's Hugo Boss Award 2006 and the 2008 Biennale de Lyon. In 2007, she was a finalist for the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement and a fellow in the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) fellowship program. Ms. Cubi?? served on the Knight Foundation National Arts Advisory Board and, in 2012, she was awarded the distinction of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. In 1997, she was the Puerto Rico commissioner to the Bienal de S?o Paolo.
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ROBERT HOBBS is an art historian and curator specializing in twentieth- and twentieth-first century art, with over fifty books and major catalogs on topics ranging from Edward Hopper to Abstract Expressionism, Earth Art, and Post-Modernism. His Robert Smithson retrospective was selected in 1981 as the US's representation at the Venice Biennale; in 1996, his exhibition Souls Grown: African American Vernacular Art of the South was part of the 1996 Cultural Olympiad; and his Kara Walker: Slavery! Slavery! was the US's 2002 entry for the S?o Paulo Bienal. Dr. Hobbs has served as Associate Professor at Cornell University, long-time visiting professor at Yale University, and the Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair of American Art Emeritus, VCU. His essay on Felix Gonzalez-Torres was included in the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy special issue on this artist.
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MARIO GONZ?LEZ is the Director of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Family Archive, established in 2020 in order to enhance the artistic and personal legacy of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Gonzalez is also the nephew of Felix and is currently the Technology Manager at Superblue.
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ELVIS FUENTES is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at Rutgers University. His research on Felix Gonzalez-Torres''s early work in Puerto Rico was first presented at the San Juan Triennial in 2004. An expanded iteration traveled to El Museo del Barrio, where Fuentes served as Curator for six years.
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MAR?A MART?NEZ-CA?AS was born in Havana, Cuba. She received a B.F.A. in Photography from the Philadelphia College of Art and an M.F.A. in Photography from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. An artist who works with innovative, non-traditional photographic media, she has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad, with 49 one-person exhibitions and over 300 group exhibitions.
She is the recipient of the Oolite Arts 2020 Michael Richards Award, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation 2016 Photography Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation 2014 Visual Arts Fellowship, a Cintas Fellowship; a National Endowment for the Arts award; and a Fulbright-Hays Grant, among others. Her works are included in the permanent collections of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; The Museum of Modern Art in New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco; The Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona; and the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC; among many others.
Her works are represented by Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, and Julie Saul Projects, New York. She lives and works in Miami since 1986.
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LILLIANA RAMOS COLLADO writes on art, architecture and curatorial practice. She is full professor at the UPR''s School of Architecture, was chief curator at the Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art, curated some 30 full-museum exhibitions, and then became Puerto Rico''s Minister of Culture. Some of the books written by Lilliana for her exhibitions are: Jean-Michel Basquiat: una antolog?a para Puerto Rico (MAPR, 2006); Careos/Relevos: 25 a?os del Museo de Arte Contempor?neo de Puerto Rico (MAC, 2010); NosOtros: David LaChapelle's Humanity on the Edge (MAC, 2011); and Puerto Rico: Puerta al Paisaje (MAC 2012). Lilliana has recently curated exhibitions on other museum/art galleries, the most important: The Blue of Ruins: Arnaldo Roche Rabell (Point-of-Contact Gallery, Syracuse University NY 2016); Mater Materia: Edgard Rodr?guez Luiggi (UPR 2016); and Caracol Tormenta Ola: Retrospectiva de Consuelo Gotay/ The Shell The Storm The Rose: A Consuelo Gotay Retrospective (MAFO 2017-18). Right now, Lilliana is curating an exhibition of Puerto Rican women architects for next fall. Also, Lilliana has published extensively on cultural commentary, criticism, theory, photography, architecture and culture in general in newspaper and professional reviews. Most of her essays have been added to her blog, Bodeg?n con Teclado
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ANDREW KACHEL is a New York-based curator, writer, and Director & Felix Gonzalez-Torres Liaison at Andrea Rosen Gallery. He received an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Recent curatorial projects include Constantina Zavitsanos''s L&D MOTEL (2019) and the multidisciplinary initiative A new job to unwork at (2018) both presented at PARTICIPANT INC. As a core organizer of the activist platform Galleries Commit (est. 2020), he is part of a group of New York gallery workers organizing laterally toward more resilient and climate-conscious gallery models.
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ROSA DE LA CRUZ is an established collector within the international contemporary arts community. Born in Havana, Cuba, she lived in New York City and Madrid, Spain, before moving to Miami, Florida in 1975, where she currently resides with her husband, Carlos de la Cruz. They have 5 children. Built over the span of more than 30 years, Rosa and Carlos have opened their home to share their personal art collection with the public, which has been credited by ARTNews (among others) as being ?one of the topmost influential in the world. Rosa''s drive and philanthropic vision have effectively spearheaded efforts pivotal in establishing Miami as a cultural destination. In 2009, Rosa and Carlos opened the de la Cruz Collection, a 30,000 square foot private museum in Miami''s Design District. Annual exhibitions, lectures, and workshops are accessible to the public free of charge. In partnership with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, scholarship programming associated with the collection has impacted the lives of over 1,000 students from New World School of the Arts (NWSA) and Design and Architecture Senior High (DASH) through annual travel domestically and abroad, summer pre-college programming at Parsons and SVA, and design competitions. From 2001-2008, Rosa was the Chairperson and Founder of the Moore Space, an alternative space located in the Design District, and has long been an active member of the Art in Public Places Board, Key Biscayne. Awards and distinctions include: American Federation for the Arts Cultural Leadership Award, 2015; Knight Art Champion Award, Young Designers Scholarship Fund, 2015; Juror of the Marcel Duchamp Prix, Paris at the Centre Pompidou, 2011; Red Cross Chairmen's Spectrum Award, 2004; Juror of the Hugo Boss Prize, Guggenheim Museum, 1998; Alexis de Tocqueville Award from United Way for Community Service, 1997.
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ELENA FILIPOVIC is director and curator of Kunsthalle Basel, where she has organized over forty exhibitions with emerging artists. She has a Ph.D. in Art History from Princeton University. She previously served as senior curator of WIELS, Brussels, where she curated numerous solo exhibitions of emerging artists in addition to organizing several traveling retrospectives, including Felix Gonazalez-Torres: Specific Objects without Specific Form (2010), Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972 (2012, with Joanna Mytkowska), and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker: Work/Travail/Arbeid (2015). In 2008, she co-curated When things cast no shadow, the 5th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, with Adam Szymczyk. Her writings have appeared in numerous artists' catalogs and journals and she has edited several compendiums, including The Artist as Curator: An Anthology (Mousse Publications, 2017) and The Biennial Reader: Anthology on Large-Scale Perennial Exhibitions of Contemporary Art, with Marieke van Hal and Solveig ?vsteb? (Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010). She is the author of David Hammons, Bliz-aard Ball Sale (Afterall Books, 2017), for which she was awarded an Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant, and The Apparently Marginal Activities of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2016), winner of Honorable Mention, 2017 PROSE Awards in Art History and Criticism.
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ANDREA ROSEN opened Andrea Rosen Gallery in 1990 with a seminal exhibition of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and has for more than 30 years advocated for some of the most important artists of our time. She is the executrix of the Estate of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and in 2002 she established the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation. In 2017, Andrea Rosen Gallery closed its physical space in order to concentrate on the representation of Gonzalez-Torres, and to function as a conduit for identifying, supporting, and working to help others create rigorous experiential programming, flexible economic models, and non-object-based practices.
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MELISSA WALLEN is the Director of the de la Cruz Collection, located in Miami's Design District. Since its opening in 2009, she has worked to further its mission of education and accessibility through the development of its annual exhibitions, lecture series, scholarship programming, and workshops. She received her BFA in painting from Florida International University.
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