Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy (b. 1975, Mexicali, Mexico) is a curator of contemporary interested in artistic practices informed by conceptualism and in politically sensitive and formally sophisticated approaches to art making. In 2008, she is participating in the curatorial residency at Kadist Art Foundation in Paris, France and is conducting research on emerging art scenes internationally thanks to a travel grant by the American Center Foundation. Sofía recently curated the group exhibition Autopsia de lo invisible (February-April 2008) at MALBA in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is currently working on a curatorial project with Nato Thompson that will be part of Democracy in America (September 2008), organized by Creative Time in New York. Prior to this, and for a little over four years, Sofía was curator and programs manger at Art in General, a non-profit gallery in New York where she developed its New Commissions Program and worked in the creation, exhibition and publication of challenging art projects with a number of artists. Puerto Rican Light (2003), the first New York solo-exhibition of Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, was one of the several projects she realized earlier, while working as associate curator at Americas Society in New York from 2000-2003. Some years later, she co-curated together with Raimundas Malasauskas and Alexis Vaillant the IX Baltic Triennial, Black Market Worlds (2005) organized by the Center for Contemporary Art in Vilnius, Lithuania. All of these projects or exhibitions have an accompanying publication. Her texts have been published in catalogs by various galleries, museums and magazines, and she is currently a panelist in ArtworldSalon.com. In late-2007, Sofía initiated the blog-like website www.sideshows.org, where she publishes informal texts about contemporary art and culture to introduce, mostly by way of anecdote, literary references, inspiring walks and site visits, peculiar artistic practices, curatorial processes and arts projects that are influential to her practice.