Cristina Figueroa Vives

Function: Art historian and curator specializing in New Media Art from Cuba and Latin America Country: Cuba Visiting period: 14 - 18 May Visiting year: 2018

Curator at the independent art space Estudio Figueroa-Vives in Havana since 2013 and at Casa de las Américas since 2006 where she is focused in the development and research of its art collection. M.A in Art History (University of Havana) and M.A in Arts and New Media (Ramón Llull University, Barcelona). She has carried out several independent projects of curatorship in national and foreign institutions. She has published in specialized magazines, catalogs and blogs and has taught courses and conferences on Contemporary Art and New Media at the University of Havana and at the Havana insitute of Art (ISA). She is a member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) and the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Paris.