Biography
Pablo Helguera is a Mexican artist, cultural educator and writer based in New York. His work addresses themes ranging from history, pedagogy, sociolinguistics, ethnography, memory, and the absurd, which he treats through various formats such as reading, museum exhibition strategies, musical performances, and written fiction. Helguera has presented his work in multiple biennials and international museums in Latin America, Europe and Asia. He has been awarded several international art grants and prizes, including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the Creative Capital Grant. Since 1991 he has worked in different museums of contemporary art, 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 and adult programs at the MoMA. He is currently a professor at the College of the Performing Arts of the New School in New York.
In 2010 he was appointed pedagogical curator of the 8th Mercosul Biennial, held in 2011 in Porto Alegre (Brazil). He has a doctorate from Kingston University (United Kingdom) and two honorary doctorates, from the Kansas City Art Institute and the Plymouth College of Art. He is the author of the following books (among others): Manual de Estilo del Arte Contemporáneo (2005), El niño en la letra (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 Documents, 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).