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Octavio Zaya
Octavio Zaya is an independent curator and art writer living in New York since 1978. He is Director of Atlántica, a bilingual quarterly magazine published by CAAM (Las Palmas, Spain); he is Curator at Large and Advisor of MUSAC (León, Spain), and a member of the Advisory Board of Performa (New York). He is on the Editorial Board of Nka Journal of Contemporary
African Art (Cornell University, NY).
He was a curator in Okwui Enwezor’s team at Documenta 11 (Kassel, 2002), and he was also a curator at the 1st and 2nd Johannesburg Biennials. He conceived and was a curator of Versiones del Sur. Latinoamerica at Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, 2000). He was one of the curators of Fresh Cream (Phaidon Press, London, 2000), has authored more than a dozen books on contemporary and emerging artists, and has contributed to numerous other books and catalogues.
He recently curated important exhibitions on Cerith Wyn Evans and Paul Pfeiffer’s works, both at MUSAC. With Agustin Perez Rubio and Maria Inés Rodriguez, respectively Director and Chief Curator of MUSAC, Zaya is currently organizing Model Kits/Modelos para Armar, a large exhibition on Latin American artists from MUSAC’s Collection (June 2010), and another on the work of Georges Adéagbo (January 2011), both for MUSAC. He is also curating a large show by Yinka Shonibare for Comunidad de Madrid (February 2011).
Octavio Zaya
Biography
Octavio Zaya is an independent curator and art writer living in New York since 1978. He is Director of Atlántica, a bilingual quarterly magazine published by CAAM (Las Palmas, Spain); he is Curator at Large and Advisor of MUSAC (León, Spain), and a member of the Advisory Board of Performa (New York). He is on the Editorial Board of Nka Journal of Contemporary
African Art (Cornell University, NY).
He was a curator in Okwui Enwezor’s team at Documenta 11 (Kassel, 2002), and he was also a curator at the 1st and 2nd Johannesburg Biennials. He conceived and was a curator of Versiones del Sur. Latinoamerica at Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, 2000). He was one of the curators of Fresh Cream (Phaidon Press, London, 2000), has authored more than a dozen books on contemporary and emerging artists, and has contributed to numerous other books and catalogues.
He recently curated important exhibitions on Cerith Wyn Evans and Paul Pfeiffer’s works, both at MUSAC. With Agustin Perez Rubio and Maria Inés Rodriguez, respectively Director and Chief Curator of MUSAC, Zaya is currently organizing Model Kits/Modelos para Armar, a large exhibition on Latin American artists from MUSAC’s Collection (June 2010), and another on the work of Georges Adéagbo (January 2011), both for MUSAC. He is also curating a large show by Yinka Shonibare for Comunidad de Madrid (February 2011).
