Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy is a curator of contemporary art. Aside from organizing exhibitions and producing events, she also advises individuals and organizations on art matters ranging from programming to philanthropy. Since the 2008 fall semester, she is curator-in-residence at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College in New York, where she received her graduate degree eight years ago.

Sofía writes regularly for exhibition catalogs and magazines and, more recently, 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.

Recent exhibitions curated by Sofía include: Autopsia de lo invisible (February-April 2008) at MALBA in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Foreign Correspondents (September 21-28), as part of the exhibition and convergence center of “Democracy in America” organized by Creative Time in New York, and; Archaeology of Longing (September 20-November 9), at Kadist Art Foundation in Paris, France, where she was in residence for part of 2008.

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, including Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, Bernadette Corporation, Alejandro Cesarco, Sharon Hayes, Andrea Geyer and Judi Werthein, among many others. All of these artists’ projects or exhibitions have an accompanying publication, designed by Project Projects and available on print-on-demand through Amazon.com.

Sometime in between this, she co-curated together with Raimundas Malasauskas and Alexis Vaillant the IX Baltic Triennial (2005), also known as “Black Market Worlds” or simply “BMW,” organized by the Center for Contemporary Art in Vilnius, Lithuania. A version of this exhibition was presented in 2005 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK, and, in 2006, at the O.K Contemporary Art Center in Linz, Austria. The Black Box, a box-set of publications including anthologies, artist’s books and exhibition ephemera conceived in place of a traditional exhibition catalog is distributed by Revolver.

Earlier, Sofía worked as exhibition coordinator and eventually associate curator at Americas Society in New York, where she curated two exhibitions of contemporary art: Pictures of You (2002), a group exhibition including works by Mexican artists Iñaki Bonillas, Minerva Cuevas, Mario Garcia Torres, and Yoshua Okon, and Puerto Rican Light (2003), the first New York solo-exhibition of Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla. The accompanying books for both of these exhibitions were designed by -1:0:1 in Monterrey, Mexico. At Americas Society, she also initiated a number of programs, including the round-table discussion, Conversation Circles, and AS a Satellite, a project-based program in collaboration with independent artist-run cultural initiatives in the Americas.

Born in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, Sofía studied a Licenciatura en Artes at the Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico. In 2000, she received the Ramapo College Curatorial Award for her thesis exhibition at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. She was also awarded a study grant by Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes in Mexico in 1998-1999, and an Independent Travel and Research Grant by the American Center Foundation in 2007.