Mentor Information


Juan Pablo Macias
Location: Mexico-Milano
Languages: English-Italian-Spanish

Interest: cooking and drinking wine, drinking beer sitting on the ocean front, philosophy, art, politics

Email: macias.juanpablo[at]gmail.com

Bio: Mexico 1974. Lives between Mexico and Italy. As curator he has realized Multitudinario: La Pregunta Por La Colectividad Y Sus Formas, SAPS (Mexico City) and actually is curating a cultural Project named Regeneración: órgano independiente de combate sintáctico, and Regeneraciones, Plataformas y Espacios Utópicos. As an artist he has showed his work in Italy, Spain, Germany, Suisse, Southafrica, Brasil, USA, Russia and Mexico. Like Qui vive? NCCA – Nacional Centre for Conteporary Arts of Muscow. Estetica della Resistenza in collaboration with Alfredo Jaar, Fondazione Ratti (Milano-Como). Come-Closer, Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlín). Re(trans)misiones, CENART (Mexico City). Aparentemente Sublime, Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City). Some solo shows are Everything turns, everything revovles, Arena México Gallery (Guadalajara), and Daily Staging: video as public topography, Ciocca Arte Contemporanea (Milano). His work has been published on Flash Art, Tema Celeste, Nero, Exibart, Arte e Critica, Art Nexos and others. He has written for La Colección Jumex, Los Usos de la Imagen: ensayo sobre Andres Serrano (2004), and the catalogue text for I Hate To Talk Even To People I Know. I Don’:t. About the work of Graham Gillmore for OMR Gallery. He is a part of the faculty of the School of visual Arts CEDIM Monterrey.