Elvis Fuentes

Elvis Fuentes was Curator at El Museo del Barrio, New York from 2006 – 2012. Previously he was curator at the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2004-06, where he organised a retrospective exhibition of the early work of Félix González-Torres.

A graduate of Art History from the University of Havana, he was Curator of the Fundación Ludwig of Cuba (1999-2002). In 2005 he received the Grand Prize for XXVI International Biennial of Graphic Arts of Ljubljana, for the curatorial Project El grabado como metáfora and two Premios AICA Puerto Rico for Rewind Rewind… Tres décadas de video-arte puertorriqueño (ICP, 2005-06) and Homo humoris: Caricaturas de Lorenzo Homar (Museo de Arte de Cayey, 2005).

He has been a member of IKT since 2005 and has contributed to numerous periodicals.