Raúl Zamudio

Raúl Zamudio [born June 19, 1959 in Tijuana, Mexico) is a New York-based independent curator, art critic, art historian and teacher. He was Director of Exhibitions at [http://www.whiteboxny.org/ White Box] NY, NY and was Curator-at-Large at [http://theartistnetwork.org/ the:artist:network] , NY, NY. He has curated over 40 exhibitions in the U.S., Europe, Mexico, and China including solo shows of Dennis Oppenheim, Javier Téllez, and Miguel Angel Rios, as well as group shows including Surge (Beijing), Body Double (Wroclaw), The Pictures of Dorian Gray (Mexico City), Under Your Skin (New York), The Phantom Limb (Chicago), The Crystal Land Revisited (Newark), The Bermuda Triangle (Miami) and Theater of Cruelty (New York).

His curatorial work is distinguished by his unique conceptual approach underscored, for example, in an exhibition titled Hopscotch based on the novel by the Argentine writer Julio Cortazar; another show based on a film by the Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni; an exhibion based an aphorism by Marcel Duchamp; another exhibition based on a medical condition; and a talk show in which he serves as host that is both an interview program with artists and an art exhibition masked as dialogue and discussion [http://theartistnetwork.org/streaming06/Sindex.html] . He was invited to co-juror the 2004 and 2007 Cuenca Biennials, Cuenca, Ecuador, co-curated an official off-site exhibition titled Poles, Apart, Poles Together for the 2005 Venice Biennial, and is co-curator of the [http://mediacityseouleng.tistory.com/ 2008 Media_City Seoul International Media Art Biennial, Seoul, South Korea] .

As an art critic, he has published over 150 articles in books, museum and gallery exhibition catalogs, magazines and journals. Some of the artists he has written essays on include Damien Hirst, Rebecca Horn, Lucio Fontana, Jesús Rafael Soto, Waltercio Caldas, Daniel Senise, Cildo Meireles [http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/arthi/part/part5/raul.html] , Santiago Sierra, Francis Alys, Lygia Clark, Helio Oiticica, Javier Téllez [http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=d2p33px_13cr5dkn] , Miguel Angel Rios, Atelier Morales,Vik Muniz, Ana Mendieta, Teresa Serrano, Gabriel Orozco and Teresa Margolles. He is contributing editor of Art Nexus and a U.S. correspondent for Flash Art, and other texts appear in numerous periodicals including Contemporary, TRANS, Estilo, Art in Culture, Zingmagazine, [Art Notes] , Laboratory, Frame: The Finnish Art Review, Tema Celeste, and the L.A. Times.

He has taught at numerous universities and colleges in the U.S. including Parsons School of Design, John Jay College, City College, and Kean University. He has been a visiting critic/curator at Ehwa Women's University, Seoul, Royal College of Art, London, Tampere Polytechnic, Tampere, FRAME, Helsinki, Centrum Cultura Zamek, Wroclaw, Oaxaca Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Szamzie Space, Seoul, and Location One, NY, NY. He has lectured, presented papers, delivered talks and participated on panels at numerous universities and museums including Harvard Divinity School, UC Berkeley, Stanford, University of Southern California, University of Washington, CAM/New York University, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cleveland Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, Drawing Center, National Museum of American History, Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington D.C., and the Americas Society.

External links

* [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Zamudio Wikipedia in Spanish]
* [http://raulzamudio.blogspot.com/ weblog]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE2DD133DF93BA25753C1A9649C8B63 NY Times Review of Javier Téllez: Alpha 60 (the mind-body problem)]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D07E1DA1031F931A25751C1A9629C8B63 NY Times Review of The Crystal Land Revisited]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/arts/design/03wart.html?_r=4&adxnnl=1&oref=login&adxnnlx=1186146204-iYwFS6wU/5KYoowsLHwBmQ&oref=slogin&oref=slogin NY Times Review of Theatre of Cruelty]
* [http://www.newyorkartworld.com/reviews/under-your-skin.html NY Art World Review of Under Your Skin]