Cuauhtémoc MEDINA
Art critic, curator and historian, Medina holds a PhD in History and Theory of Art from the University of Essex in the UK and has written extensively on contemporary art in Latin America and worldwide. He has been a full-time researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas (Institute of Aesthetic Research) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico since 1993 and Chief Curator at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (University Museum of Contemporary Art) in Mexico City since 2013, where he has curated numerous exhibitions of prominent artists.
Medina was the first Associate Curator of Art, Latin American Collections at Tate Modern from 2002 to 2008. In 2012, he was Head Curator of the Manifesta 9 Biennial in Genk, Belgium, titled The Deep of the Modern. In 2018, he served as Chief Curator of the 12th Shanghai Biennale, Proregress—Art in an Age of Historical Ambivalence, at the Power Station of Art. He also received the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement from the Menil Foundation in Houston, Texas in 2013.