Octavio Zaya

Octavio Zaya is a curator, writer and editor living in the US since 1978. He is Executive Director of the Cuban Art Foundation. He was Director of Atlántica, a bilingual quarterly journal from 2000 to 2018 (Las Palmas, Spain). From 2005 to 2013 he was Curator at Large of MUSAC (Leon, Spain). He is a member of the Artistic Committee at MALBA (buenos Aires), of the Advisory Board of Performa (New York), and is on the Editorial Board of Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art (Duke University); a Contributing Editor of Flash Art, and a contributor to art-agenda/e-flux (New York).

He was a curator in Okwui Enwezor’s team at Documenta 11 (Kassel, 1998-2002). He was also a curator at the 1st and 2nd Johannesburg Biennials (1995 and 1997). He has curated more than 30 museum exhibitions worldwide ((including those at Guggenheim Museum, NY, 1996; Reina Sofia, Madrid, 1999 and 2000; Kunstforeningen, Copenhague, 1997 y 1998, etc.), and he has authored more than 30 books and catalogues on young and contemporary artists, and contributed to numerous artists’ books and catalogues. In 2013 he was the curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the 55th Biennale di Venezia selecting Lara Almarcegui to represent Spain. Recently he organized a large retrospective of the work of Luis Camnitzer for Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid (2018-2019).