CRISTINA VIVES

Art Historian (University of Havana), leading independent art curator and critic based in Havana. Co-author of the anthology Memoria: Cuban Art of the 20th Century, California International Art Foundation, Los Angeles, 2002. A J. Paul Getty Scholar, Los Angeles, in 1994 and 1995 and National Award for Curatorial Work, Cuba in 2007, 2009 and 2010. Author of monographic books on Cuban artists and critical texts on Contemporary Art and Photography published in books, magazines and national and foreign catalogs. She is a member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), of the Advisory Committee of the CIFO Foundation, Miami and of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Paris.