Monday, May 4, 2015, 7:30pm
Hunter College MFA Campus
205 Hudson Street
Flex Space, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10013
Osvaldo Sánchez lives and works in Mexico City. After obtaining his MA in Art History at the University of Havana he taught there at the Academia de arte San Alejandro and at the Instituto Superior de Arte. In 1990 he moved to Mexico City, where he has been director of the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, and most recently the Museo de Arte Moderno (2007–12). Sánchez has run the International Forum of Contemporary Art Theory in Guadalajara and has organized exhibitions for the Museo Experimental El Eco, the Fundación Jumex, both in Mexico City, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, among other institutions. Since 2013 he has been an Artistic Director of InSite, for which he organized programs and commissioned public art projects in 2000 and 2006. For many years he has written about art for the major Mexican newspaper Reforma, and his essays have appeared in numerous exhibition catalogs and books. Currently, as director of the ongoing project InSite/Casa Gallina Sánchez is continuing his practice of staging experimental platforms for cultural production in the neighborhood of Santa María La Ribera in Mexico City.
Osvaldo Sánchez is a guest scholar of the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Visiting Artists and Critics program. The program brings key figures from Latin America to Hunter College to address topics in contemporary art and scholarship through talks with students and the New York community. In addition to this forum, Cisneros Visiting Artists and Critics conduct studio visits and seminar discussions with Hunter MFA and MA students during their residency.
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For more information about related events organized by Hunter College’s Department of Art and Art History and its initiatives supported by the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, please visit latinamericanartathunter.org.
