GUEST JUROR: ERNESTO PUJOL Ernesto
Pujol's contribution to the arts is very well-noted: as an internationally
celebrated conceptual artist, as a curator, as a professor, and as an
advisor to numerous important arts organizations nationwide.
Ernesto Pujol has exhibited throughout the United States, Europe,
Africa, and Latin America, including biennials in Havana, Johannesburg, and
Eastern Europe. He has developed a complex body of multimedia work that
includes sculptural installation, painting, video and photography. His most
recent work is characterized by site-specific
projects and collaborative community-based processes addressing the
human body, individual and collective memory, and our relationship with the
environment.
Born in Cuba and raised in Puerto Rico, Ernesto Pujol currently teaches
in the graduate fine arts program at Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn, New York.
He has been awarded fellowships from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, The
Joan Mitchell Foundation, and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and has been a
board member and panelist of such important art organizations as: New Museum
of Contemporary Art, Art in General, New York Foundation of the Arts, New
York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts,
Washington, DC. His work is also found in numerous museum collections, such
as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Museo Rufino Tamayo,
Mexico City. |