Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova presents conceptual works created of found materials in the New Proposals section of Zona MACO.  Cuban born Leyden acts as a curator of found materials that reflect the multicultural landscape of the United States.  His interest in the visual and functional systems inherently present in these objects is evident in his arrangements.  This […]

Design Curator Cecilia León de la Barra Cecilia León de la Barra is an industrial designer, teacher, author, and curator, since 2000 she has been working as an independent designer and collaborating with other designers and architects.  She was co-founder of MOB (2001-2005), a design consultancy studio and showroom that developed furniture and interior design […]

Modern Art Curator Montserrat Albores Gleason Montserrat Albores Gleason is an independent curator and co-founder of the curatorial and investigation project PETRA.  In 2001 Gleason participated in the critical platform of Documenta_11 from Kassel.  During 2010 and 2011 she was the director of the site-specific project TECOH, in collaboration with the artist Jorge Pardo.  Since […]

Zona MACO Sur Curator Juan A. Gaitán Juan A. Gaitán is a curator and writer, based in Mexico City and Berlin.  He is currently the Artistic Director of the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Has the curation always been a part of Zona MACO’s programming? If not, when did it begin and what inspired […]

New Proposals Curator Mirjam Varadinis Mirjam Varadinis is an art historian and has served as curator at Kunsthaus Zürich since September 2002, heading the division of Contemporary art.  In 2013 Varadinis was invited by the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art to curate a large Special Project called 0 Performance – The Fragile Beauty of […]

Main Section Committee Member, Patricia Ortiz Monasterio Owner/co-Director of Galería OMR, Mexico City.  With studies in Museology and Art History, Patricia worked for the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico as Chief of the Exhibitions Department, curator and coordinator in various public Contemporary Art spaces, before […]