Cuauhtemoc Medina

Cuauhtémoc Medina (Mexico City, December 5th 1965.)
Critic, curator and art historian. Doctor in History and Theory of Art (PhD) from the University
of Essex, UK, and a degree in History from Universidad Autónoma de México. He is a
research fellow at Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México. Between 2002 and 2008 he was the first Associate Curator of Latin American Art
in the collections of Tate Modern.
Median has curated, among others, events and exhibitions like Cuando la fe mueve
montañas de Francis Alÿs (Lima, Peru, 2001) 20 Million Mexicans Can’t Be Wrong (South
London Gallery, 2002), La era de la discrepancia. Arte y Cultura Visual en México (19681997) (co-curated with Olivier Debroise, Pilar García & Alvaro Vazquez, 2007-2008). In 2009
he curated ¿De qué otra cosa podríamos hablar?, the project Teresa Margolles presented at
the Mexican Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. He is currently organising Dominó Caníbal, a
year-long exhibition for PAC Murcia, Spain, for 2010.
Among his most recent publications are: Francis Alÿs (Phaidon, 2007), “ ‘The 21st century
has just begun’… beyond the poetic and political divide”, in: Out of the studio! (Hasselt, Z33
Art Centre, 2008) and “Hacia una nueva anarquitectura”, in: Taiyana Pimentel, coord.
Tercerunquinto. Investiduras institucionales, (INBA-Conaculta, 2009). Medina writes "Ojo
Breve", a fortnightly column for the newspaper Reforma in Mexico City.