Aimée Labarrere de Servitje

She holds a degree on Art History at the Instituto de Cultura Superior (Mexico City), with a thesis on The origins and the Cuban Avant-Garde; and a master degree on Art Studies at Universidad Iberoamericana. Since 2000 she is an active member of several boards on museums and independent spaces. She has been Board President at: Fundación Olga y Rufino Tamayo; SOMA; and InSite/Casa Gallina. She has also been a member of the board of Museo de Arte Moderno, at Mexico City; the Latin American - Caribbean Committee Fund at MoMA; and Latin American Acquisitions Committee at Tate. Aimée Servitje supports those contemporary art practices that institutional associations do not comprise, such as alternative spaces and curatorial work.

 

Javier Arredondo

Founder and President at Travesías Media, with more than 15 years of experience on the media and tourism industry. With a degree on International Affairs at Universidad Iberoamericana. and postgraduate studies in International Studies at Georgetown University; Human Geography at UNAM; and Senior Management AD2 at IPADE. In 2002 he was selected as 'Endeavor entrepreneur' since then, he is a member of the organization. 

 

Issa Ma. Benítez Dueñas

Gallerist, writer and art historian by Universidad Iberoamericana. She holds a Masters degree at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a Ph. D. at Universidad Carlos III (Madrid), specialist on contemporary art and theory. She has published in several international specialized magazines; member of CURARE; and in 2004 she directed the third edition of the International Symposium on Contemporary Art Theory, SITAC III: Resistance in México City. She has curated several exhibitions and she is director of Proyecto Paralelo gallery (Mexico City). 

 

Ery Camara

Graduated in Restoration has a Master in Museology and a Diploma in Visual Arts. He has been Advisor for the Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño, Museography Assistant Director for The National Museum of Anthropology, Assistant Director for The National Museum of Popular Cultures, Assistant Director for The Museo Nacional del Virreinato. He is currently curator at The Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso. He has also been professor at the postgraduate division of the Master Degrees in Museums in the Universidad Iberoamericana and a member of the Advisory Committee of SITAC. His publications include The Language that We Share; Mirando al Xoloítzuintle; África Hoy; Arte Animista; and Senegal nuestro país Tradiciones culturales de las etnias.

 

Gabriela Cámara

 

Magda Carranza

Curator at Gelman Collection since 1998. From 2000-2005 she was founder and director of Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo, afterwards she remains as a board member. She has been involved in relevant institutions for the contemporary art scene in Mexico, such as Museo de Arte Moderno, Museo Tamayo, Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo (Televisa) and Museo Muros.

 

Carmen Cuenca

Cultural manager and curator. Art Historician by Universidad Iberoamericana; she has been researcher and curator at Museo Nacional de San Carlos (Mexico City) and Cultural Attaché in Mexican Consulate in San Diego, California (1994-1997), she was museographer at Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), and director of Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo. She was coordinator of Binational Projects and Visual Arts Committee, in CECUT, where she also was sub-director of exhibitions (2008), and co-director in inSITE. She has been a speaker on national and international academic events. She is now Executive Director in inSite / Casa Gallina.

 

Tatiana Cuevas

An art historian, she completed a Master's degree in contemporary art curatorship at the Royal College of Art in London. In 2004, she received the Hilla Rebay International Curatorial grant from the Guggenheim Foundation. From 2008 to 2011 she was curator of contemporary art at the Lima Art Museum (MALI). Between the samples that she organized during this period, stand out: Gordon Matta-Clark: Undo the space, co-curator of Gabriela Rangel (2009-2010); Art to the step. Contemporary Collection of the Lima Art Museum, in collaboration with Rodrigo Quijano (2011); Fernando Bryce: drawing modern history, co-curator of Natalia Majluf (2011-2012). It is part of the founding committee of the Open Center call. Specific site interventions in the historical center of Lima (2009, 2010, 2012). She has worked as an associate curator of the Museo Rufino Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City, where her participation stands out in the curatorship Jesús Rafael Soto. Vision in movement, interstices and homonym of line, in collaboration with Paola Santoscoy.

 

 

Vanesa Fernández

She directed Celeste, editorial for the magazines Celeste and BabyBabyBaby, as well as some thematic books. She was a weekly columnist as art critic in newspapers in Mexico and Monterrey (El Norte, Reforma and Milenio). She has curated several exhibitions and was Exhibitions Coordinator at MARCO and Curator at Museo de Monterrey (up to its closing date), where she developed the Mediateca Arte Acceso. She has a Master on Post-War and Contemporary Art in Sotheby's Institute, Manchester University. She is now Frieze representative for Mexico and Director of the Fundación Olga y Rufino Tamayo. 

 

Christian Gómez

(Mexico) Journalist and researcher, he studied Art History and Communications Sciences at Mexico’s National Autonomous University. As a member of its Political and Social Sciences faculty, he has taught Art and Communications, Journalism and Narrative Language, and has led a workshop in Aesthetic Appreciation and Media Narrative. In the Arts-Education Mediation realm, he designed and led the Museo Jumex workshop entitled “Desde el arte el entorno” (“From Art, Environment”), and served as “resident interlocutor” at the Centro Cultural Border’s Art Education Platform. He also participated in an “Art and Materiality” seminar that emerged from post-graduate Art History studies. He has worked as editor in the arts section at La Ciudad de Frente as well as a reporter for the National University’s Office of Cultural Awareness. Since 2009, Gómez Vega has written on contemporary art in both academic and general-audience publications. His research is oriented toward contemporary arts practice mediation and its political and social implications. 

 

Enrique Guerrero

 

Ramiro Martínez

Graduated at Saint Marys University in San Antonio, Texas, where he cursed a degree on Business administration. He was curatorial projects and budgets coordinator for MARCO: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, in Monterrey. He directed the Museo Tamayo from 2002-2009. Since 2010 he is director of Museo Amparo, in Puebla. 

 

Nina Menocal

Born in La Habana, Cuba; lives in Mexico since 1965. She is mentioned in Claudia Herstatt's book Women Gallerists of the 20th and 21st Centuries as one of the 30 remarkable contemporary art gallerists; and in Denise Dresser's Gritos y Susurros, as one of the 38 leader women in Mexico. She is owner and director of the Nina Menocal gallery. First woman to patronize contemporary cuban art. In 1990 and 1993 her gallery brought the work of cuban artists of the movement La Generación de los Ochenta, born at the beginning of the Cuban Revolution in 1959: she offered them housing, exhibited their first solo exhibition and produced their first exhibition catalogs. 
She holds a degree in Universal History, by Universidad Iberoamericana, where she was also professor. She's author of the best seller Mexico: Visión de los Ochenta and was awarded with the Premio Nacional de Periodismo (1982) 

 

Fernando Mesta

 From 1999-2002 he worked at the galllery Air de Paris (France), and Kurimanzutto (Mexico). Along with Adriana Lara and Agustina Ferreyra he founded 'Perros Negros' (2003-2007), an alternative art office that organized artist's residences, exhibitions and publications. In 2008, with Josué Rojas, he opened Gaga Fine Arts, a commercial gallery in Mexico City that represents artists such as Guillermo Santamarina, Juan José Gurrola, Karl Holmqvist, Vivian Suter among others. 

 

Mariana Munguía Matute

Sociologist by Universidad de Guadalajara, she served as coordinator of Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo AC from 2001-2004, where she coordinated the I, II and III International Symposium on Contemporary Art and Theory (SITAC). She was Curatorial Assistant for the exhibition and catalog Mexico City: an exchange rate of bodies and values, for PS1 (2001). She was director of Laboratorio de Arte Alameda (2006-2007) in Mexico City; director of Fundación Omnilife, where she opened the space 'La Planta' (2007-2008) and Oficina para Proyectos de Arte (OPA, 2008-2010), both in Guadalajara, Mexico. She was Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach representative for Mexico and was part of the artistic committee at the 8th Berlin Biennal  

 

Patricia Ortíz Monasterio

Member of a family of architects, photographers, editors and historians. As museographer she was part of Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City) for a period of time; then she was Head of International Cultural Affairs at Secretaría de Reacopmes Exteriores. By 1983 she opened OM (as in Ortíz Monasterio) a contemporary art gallery. The next year, her husband, Jaime Riestra, architect and filmmaker, quit his job at Instituto Nacional Indigenista to develop OMR, the actual name of the gallery. Recently, their younger son Cristobal, is in charge of the management of the Gallery.

 

Paloma Porraz

Curator in chief at Museo Universitario del Chopo (1989-1997). By 2000 she shaped the Laboratorio Arte Alameda, and she directed it from 2000-2004. Director of Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso (2004-2013) and right after she became director of Special Cultural Projects for Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. She has participated in several exhibitions catalogs, and has been jury in different contests of visual arts.

 

Haydée Rovirosa

She has been involved in the art world for more than 30 years.
Ph. D Haydée Rovirosa was also curator of Ex-Teresa Arte Actual; she supported young artists with the project Temístocles 44; and directed Art&Idea, in Mexico City and New York. 

 

Lucía Sanromán

(Mexico, 1971; lives in Chicago), independent curator. She worked as associate curator at the San Diego Museum of Art, California (2006 and 2011). In 2008, she was co-curator along Ruth Estevéz, of the exhibition "Proyecto Cívico", and currently she is curating "Proyecto Coyote", a show that looks into community regeneration processes through art and social-cultural activism, in response to the social and physical disintegration of Colombia by the trafficking violence during the 1980s.

 

Patricia Sloane

Founder of Galería Sloane-Racotta (1980) in Mexico City, meeting place for artists of different generations. The Gallery closed by 1994, and when she began her practice as independent curator; she coordinates Mexico's participation at Johannesburg and Estabul Bienal. By 2000, she is part of the foundation of PAC (Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo) and she is appointed director of Museo Carrillo Gil (Mexico City, 2002). After she creates, along with Olivier Debroise and Magalí Arriola the projects: Curaduría Express and CANAIA (National Chamber of the artistic industry). From 2013-2016 she was Treasure Secretary at CIMAM. Since 2003, she collaborates with MUAC (Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo) as advisor for the Direction of Visual Arts Department, at UNAM. 

 

Current

Board of Patrons

• Armando Beltrán
• Amanda Echeverría
• Nadine Karachi de Estrada

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