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Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy is a curator of contemporary art for Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. Much of her curatorial work has consisted in working closely with visual artists in conceptualizing meetings points—whether these are in the form and space of exhibitions, events or printed matter—for audiences to experience art in unconventional ways. At different times in the past decade, Sofia was director of Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, and held curatorial positions at Art in General and Americas Society, the latter two in New York. In the past, she has curated exhibitions for Kadist Art Foundation in Paris, MALBA in Buenos Aires, Center for Contemporary Art in Vilnius, and MUSAC in Leon; and worked on projects with a number of artists, including Allora & Calzadilla, Alejandro Cesarco, Mario Garcia Torres, Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, and Judi Werthein. Since 2009, she works as an agent for documenta13. Sofía writes regularly for exhibition catalogs, magazines and in the blog she initiated: www.sideshows.org, and through the editorial project www.murmur-print.org.
Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
Biography
Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy is a curator of contemporary art for Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. Much of her curatorial work has consisted in working closely with visual artists in conceptualizing meetings points—whether these are in the form and space of exhibitions, events or printed matter—for audiences to experience art in unconventional ways. At different times in the past decade, Sofia was director of Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, and held curatorial positions at Art in General and Americas Society, the latter two in New York. In the past, she has curated exhibitions for Kadist Art Foundation in Paris, MALBA in Buenos Aires, Center for Contemporary Art in Vilnius, and MUSAC in Leon; and worked on projects with a number of artists, including Allora & Calzadilla, Alejandro Cesarco, Mario Garcia Torres, Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, and Judi Werthein. Since 2009, she works as an agent for documenta13. Sofía writes regularly for exhibition catalogs, magazines and in the blog she initiated: www.sideshows.org, and through the editorial project www.murmur-print.org.
