Carlos Basualdo

Lives and works in Columbus, Ohio und New York.
Co-curator Documenta11.
Chief Curator of the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio.
Education

Whitney Independent Study Program, Critical Studies Program,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1994 - 95.
National University of Rosario (UNR), Rosario, Argentina, 1982 -89.
Professional Experience

2000
Member of the Jury for the Hugo Boss-Award, Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Member of the Jury for the Art-Award of the Central Health Insurance, Cologne.
since 1998
Editorial Board Member of the Atlántica Magazine, Spain.
1998
Co-founder (with Hans Ulrich Obrist) of the Union of the Imaginary (VOTI), a permanent forum for the discussion of issues pertaining to curatorial practice.
since 1996
International Coordinator at Apex Art Curatorial Program, New York.

Regular contributor to Artforum International and Art Nexus.
Curatorial works (Selection)

2001
Eztétyka del Sueño, a section of Versions of the South, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. (co-curated with Octavio Zaya).
2000
Steve McQueen: Southern Steps, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela
Institute for Contemporary Art, Capetown, South Africa
Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brasil
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico. (co-curated with Thomas Mulcaire).
Worthless (Invaluable): The Concept of Value in Contemporary Art, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Painting 0 Degree. Independent Curators International, New York. Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Fred Jones Jr. Art Museum, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
University of Maryland, Baltimore County Fine Arts Gallery, Baltimore
Fuller Art Museum, Brockton
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
1999
Untitled (Bogotá, Caracas, São Paulo):
The Public Works of Felix Gonzalez-Torres.
Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Columbia.
Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas.
Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo.
1998
Insertions "Archipelago: Stockholm 98". The Nordic Museum and Museum of Technology, Stockholm.
1997
Tunga: 1977-1997. Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami.
Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela.
The Crystal Stopper. Lehmann Maupin, New York.

Publications (Selection)

Books:
Edgard de Souza, Cosac and Naify, Sao Paulo 2000.
Cream, Phaidon Press, London 1998.
Tunga 1977-1997, Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson New York, 1997.

Catalogue Essays:
Interview with Doris Salcedo. In: Doris Salcedo, Phaidon Press,
December 2000.
Life in the Mirror's Edge. In: Mirror's Edge. Exhibition Catalogue Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden, November 1999.
Panic Desire. Exhibition Catalogue for the Exhibition L'Autre Sommeil, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, November 1999.
Notes on the Work of Lygia Clark. In: La Casa, il Corpo, il Cuore: Construction of Identity. Exhibition Catalogue Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna 1999.
Form as Process as Form. Ernesto Neto. Ed. Camargo-Vilaça Gallery on the occasion of participation from Ernesto Neto at the XXIV São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo 1998.
Notes Towards the Dematerialization of the Art Exhibition. Insertions. Archipelago, The Nordic Museum and The Museum of Science and Technology, Stockholm 1998.
Monuments Without Attributes. Sophie Tottie. Archipelago Project Room, The Museum of National Antiquities, Stockholm 1998.
The Proliferation of Paths. In: The Garden of Forking Paths. Exhibition Catalogue ed. by Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen.
Edsvik Konst & Kultur, Stockholm. Helsinki City Art Museum und Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg 1998.
A Viperine Avant-Garde. In: Tunga 1977-1997. Bard College and MoCA, Miami, 1977.
Bodywise. Future, Present, Past. Catalogue der XLVII Venecia Biennial, 1997.
Around Some Supplementary Comments on the Parangolé. In: L'art au corps. Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseille 1996.