About

Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy is a curator of contemporary art. Much of her curatorial work has consisted in working closely with visual artists in conceptualizing meetings points—whether these are in the form and space of exhibitions, events or printed matter—for audiences to experience art in unconventional ways. Sofía writes regularly for exhibition catalogs, magazines and in the blog she initiated, Sideshows.org. A selection of texts published in magazines and journals appear here; some books and exhibition catalogs she’s authored or edited are listed here. In 2009, she initiated the editorial project Murmur.

Sofía was recently appointed curator of contemporary art for Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, and, since 2009, works as an agent for documenta 13 and is a board member of Kunstverein in Amsterdam. At different times in the past decade, Sofia was director of Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, and held curatorial positions at Art in General and Americas Society, the latter two in New York. She has curated exhibitions for Kadist Art Foundation in Paris, MALBA in Buenos Aires, Center for Contemporary Art in Vilnius, and MUSAC in Leon; and worked on projects with a number of artists, including Allora & Calzadilla, Alejandro Cesarco, Mario Garcia Torres, Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, and Judi Werthein.