[Art Galleries] Video 2013
(PV) PINTA VIDEO presents a selection of new video art curated by Octavio Zaya (New York/Boston/Leon).
Octavio Zaya, is a writer, curator, and editor, born in the Canary Islands, Spain, and living in the US since 1978. He is the Director of Atlántica: Journal of Art and Thought, published by the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas, Spain. He is Curator at Large for the Museum of Contemporary Art (MUSAC) of Castilla y León, as well as Guest Curator at CAAM. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Performa, New York, and of NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Duke University Press; a contributing editor of Flash Art; and a regular contributor to several art publications, including Art Agenda, New York, and ART-iT, Tokyo, and Arte al Día, Miami. He was one of the curators of Documenta11, under the directorship of Okwui Enwezor, and a curator at the 1st and 2nd Johannesburg Biennials. He has curated over 25 exhibitions in museums such as the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, MNCARS, Madrid; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Helsinki City Art Museum; MARCO, Vigo, Spain; Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark; and Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona. He has published over 20 monographic books and catalogues devoted to contemporary artists, including those on Cerith Wyn Evans, Paul Pfeiffer, Shirin Neshat, Georges Adéagbo, Candice Breitz, Yinka Shonibare, and Miki Kratsman, in addition to contributing to many other publications. He is the Curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition-la Biennale di Venezia.
Photo: Sergio Fernandez Majluf
- Carlos Aires, ADN Galería, Barcelona
- Dani Marti, Breenspace, Sydney
- Jose Luis Martinat, Galería Lucía de la Puente, Lima
- Zoe T. Vizcaino, Galería Moriarty, Madrid
- Richard Garet, Julian Navarro Projects, Long Island City
- Lucia Pizzani, Oficina #1, Caracas
- Carlos Motta, Y Gallery, New York
Octavio Zaya (Curator of PINTA Video)