Competition: Latin America & Caribbean

Pablo Helguera

Pablo Helguera (born in Mexico City in 1971) is a New York–based artist working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, and performance. Considering the relationship between history, cultural production, and language, Mr. Helguera fictionalizes the real, generating commentary and discussion about our surrounding cultural reality and our relationship to time. His work often adopts the format

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Carlos Motta

Colombian-born artist Carlos Motta works primarily in photography and video installation.  He uses strategies from documentary film and sociology to engage specific political events in an attempt to observe their effects and suggest alternative ways to write and read these histories. For example, he traveled throughout Latin America, interviewing citizens of various countries about their

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Cao Guimarães

Cao Guimarães, filmmaker and visual artist, was born in 1965 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where he lives and works. He studied philosophy at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and completed a Masters of Arts in photographic studies at Westminster University of London. Since the end of the 1980s he has been showing his work

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Fernando Omar Zuloaga

Fernando Zuloaga is the Director of the Instituto de Botánica Darwinion in San Isidro, Argentina, and a member of the scientific editorial board for its journal Darwiniana; Fellow of CONICET; and Senior Researcher at the museum of and Professor of Phytogeography at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), the institution where he earned his

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Lila Zemborain

Lila Zemborain is an Argentine poet and critic who has lived in New York City since 1985.  She is the author of the poetry collections Abrete sésamo debajo del agua (Buenos Aires: Ultimo Reino, 1993), Usted (Ultimo Reino, 1998), Guardianes del secreto (Buenos Aires: Tsé-Tsé, 2002), Malvas orquídeas del mar (Tsé-Tsé, 2004; published as Mauve

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Oscar Adolfo Zanetti Lecuona

  Born in Havana in 1946, Oscar A. Zanetti Lecuona received his doctorate in history in 1986. His thesis, about Cuban commercial policy in the first half of the twentieth century, was published in 1989 under the title Los Cautivos de la Reciprocidad. His subsequent research regarding Cuba´s external commerce in its transit from a

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María de la Luz Urriola González

Since the publication of Piedras Rodantes (Ed. Cuarto Propio, 1988) when she was only twenty-one, Malú Urriola has become one of the premier poets in Chile and all of Latin America. That first collection was written with the support of a Fellowship from the Pablo Neruda Foundation, and at the time of its release was

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Mayra Santos-Febres

Born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, Mayra Santos-Febres is a novelist, poet, essayist, radio and television personality, and a professor in the humanities division of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. While still an undergraduate at the University of Puerto Rico, Ms. Santos-Febres was already an internationally published author, with her stories and articles appearing

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Adriana Rodríguez-Pérsico

Adriana Rodríguez-Pérsico is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and, since 2005, an Independent Investigator for CONICET. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Salvador in 1975 and her Ph.D. from UBA in 1992. Her dissertation, entitled Un huracán llamado progreso. Utopía

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Renato de Lima Santos

Renato de Lima Santos was born in Franca (São Paulo State, Brazil) on August 5, 1970. He received a D.V.M. degree from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 1993, and a master’s degree from the same institution in 1995. Dr. Santos became a faculty member at UFMG

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Angela Ramírez

Artist Angela Ramírez Sanz lives and works in Santiago, Chile. Educated at the University of Chile (Licenciatura in Fine Arts, 1993) and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Certificate, 1996), where she studied with Hubert Kiecol and Beate Schiff, Ms. Ramírez creates ephemeral installations, usually with a pointedly critical statement about the current political and cultural state

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María Clemencia Ramírez

María Clemencia Ramírez joined the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History-ICANH as a researcher in 1977 and was appointed Director in 2005, a position she held until July 2007, when she became a research associate. She attended the Universidad de los Andes, where she earned a B.A in anthropology; the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, where

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Enrique Peruzzotti

Enrique Peruzzotti is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, an appointment he took up after receiving his Ph.D. in sociology from the New School for Social Research in New York City in 1996. Interested in the politics of social accountability, Mr. Peruzzotti early

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Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia

Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia is Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Maryland. Before joining the faculty at College Park in 2001, Mr. Quintero-Herencia held an appointment in the Department of Hispanic Studies of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, as an assistant (1995-99) and then associate (1999-2001) professor. During

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Rolando Peña

Rolando Peña is an internationally known multimedia artist who has been involved in theatre, dance, and fine arts since 1958. A student of architecture and design at Universidad Central de Venezuela, he joined the theater faculty of that university in 1963. In 1965 he staged the pioneering multimedia shows Testimonio and Homenaje a Henry Miller

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Elías José Palti

Argentinian Elías José Palti is one of the most innovative and prolific writers on the intellectual history of Latin America. The depth of the knowledge of the political, literary, and cultural history of Central and South America that he has brought to his researches has been largely responsible for reshaping the debate about not only

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