PABLO HELGUERA

Mexico , 1971

Helguera is a Mexican visual artist living in New York. His work focuses on themes that oscillate between history, pedagogy, sociolinguistics, ethnography, memory and the absurd, using varied formats such as the lecture, museum exhibition strategies, musical performances and written fiction.

Helguera has presented his work in multiple biennials and museums in Latin America, Europe and Asia. He has received Guggenheim, Creative Capital and Blade of Grass fellowships. From 1991 to 2020 he worked in different contemporary art museums, such as the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where he was head of public programs in the Department of Education (1998-2005) and from 2007 to 2020 he was director of academic programming at MoMA. Currently a professor at the College of the Performing Arts at the New School in New York, he is the author of the following books (among others): Handbook of Contemporary Art Style (2005), The Child in the Letter (2008), Theatrum Anatomicum (and other performance lectures) (2009), The Juvenal Players (2009), What in the World (2010), Urÿonstelaii (2010), The School of Panamerican Unrest (an anthology of papers, edited by Sarah DeMeuse, 2011), Education for Socially Engaged Art (2011), Art Scenes: The Social Scripts of the Art World (2012), The Parable Conference (2014), and A Journal of the Year of the Pharmacy (2021).

Lives and works in New York, USA.

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