Pablo Helguera

PABLO HELGUERA (Mexico City, 1971), cultural pedagogue and writer who lives and works in New York. He has presented his work in multiple museums and international biennials in Latin America, Europe and Asia, including Manifesta, the Liverpool, Havana and Performa biennials. In Mexico he has shown his work in the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Museum of Modern Art and Museo Jumex, as well as in the Enrique Guerrero gallery, in Mexico City, and in Spain at the Juan March Foundation (Palma de Mallorca and Museum of abstract art in Cuenca) among many others. In 2009 he presented an individual performance at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid (performance Revólver, 2009). In 2023 he exhibited his work at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Kiosk in the city of Ghent, Belgium, and PROA 21 in Buenos Aires, among others.
The project The Pan-American School of Disquiet (2003-2006) is considered a pioneer in the field of social interaction art. He has been awarded several international art fellowships and awards, such as the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the Creative Capital Grant, as well as the first participatory art prize of the Emilia Romagna (Bologna) region in Italy. Since 1991 he has worked in different contemporary art museums, such as the Guggenheim Museum in New York or the MoMA. He is currently a professor at the College of the Performing Arts at the New School in New York. In 2010 he was elected pedagogical curator of the 8th Mercosur Biennial, held in 2011 in Porto Alegre (Brazil).