Artes Mundi 2 Jury
Gerardo Mosquera
Gerardo Mosquera is a freelance curator and art critic based in Havana. In addition he is Adjunct Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, advisor at the Rijksakademie van Beeldenden Kunsten, Amsterdam, and a member of the advisory boards of several art journals. He was a founder of the Havana Biennial, and has curated many exhibitions, including the international urban art event MultipleCity. ArtePanama 2003 and Panorama da Arte Brasileira Contemporanea in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Recife and Vigo from 2003-2004. Author of numerous books and texts on contemporary art and art theory, Mosquera co-edited Over Here. International Perspectives on Art and Culture (Cambridge 2004).
Paolo Colombo
Paolo Colombo is the Curator of MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle arti del XXI Secolo in Rome. From 1989 to 2000, he was Director of the Entre d’ Art Contemporain, Geneva and in 1999 he curated the 6th Istanbul Biennale. He curated exhibitions by Kara Walker (2000), Zaha Hadid (2002) and Margherita Manzelli (2003). He is also a member of the Board of the ICI (Independent Curators International), New York, and of the Artist Advisory Board of the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia.
Thelma Golden
Thelma Golden is Director and Chief Curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Since her appointment in 2005 she has organised a number of exhibitions, including Isaac Julien: Vagabondia; Martin Puryear: The Cane Project; Glenn Ligon: Stranger; Material and Matter; Freestyle; Yinka Shonibare: Red, Black and Green; Black Romantic; harlemworld: Metropolis as Metaphor; and Chris Ofili: Afro Muses 1995-2005.
In addition to her curatorial work, Golden teaches, lectures and writes about contemporary art, cultural issues, and curatorial practice nationally and internationally.
Cai Guo-Qiang
Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang is best known for his dramatic gunpowder projects at locations ranging from nuclear test sets in Nevada, to Edinburgh Castle, Scotland. Cai Guo-Qiang’s spectacular and beautiful works take inspiration from a wide range of references, such as Chinese tradition, symbols, dragons, fengshui, computers and vending machines. He is an internationally recognised artist who has shown extensively throughout the USA, Europe and Asia and has received a number of awards, including the Golden Lion at the 48th Venice Biennale and the 2001 CaArts/ Alpert Award in the Arts. Cai Guo-Qiang also curated the first ever official Chinese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2005. Cai Guo-Qiang was born in the Fujian Province, China. He currently lives and works in New York.
Jenni Spencer-Davies
Jenni Spencer-Davies is Curator of the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales. She has organised many exhibitions, working with a wide variety of artists including Mark Wallinger, Bill Woodrow, Richard Deacon, David Nash, Terry Setch and Philippa Lawrence.
From 1989-1998, Spencer-Davies was Head of Gallery at Oriel, the Arts Council of Wales Gallery, Cardiff, where she worked collaboratively with Chapter and Ffotogallery to raise the profile of Wales-based artists. She has also lectured at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and was Director for the post-graduate course in Arts Administration at University College, Dublin.