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. |