In a show-and-tell presentation style, Sofía unpacks a curatorial toolkit that is in the making. In that process, she references collaborations with a number of artists, curators, and designers, including Goda Budvytytė, Alejandro Cesarco, Sarah Demeuse, Bernardo de Souza, Mario García Torres, Inés Katzenstein, Iris Kensmil, Jessy Koeiman, Irene Kopelman, Raimundas Malasauskas, Manuel Raeder, and Team Thursday, among others. People attending this program are encouraged to bring a tool; to briefly speak about it; to share it with the group. Take note that tools, as much as retooling, are used here to link art with public engagement. Consider tools that were newly acquired. Shared tools. Borrowed ones. Basic tools. Tools to replace; to forget about; to invent.
From from 2018 to 2023, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy was director of Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam, the institution formerly known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art. In 2023, she was also a Mellon Visiting Lecturer in the Art History Department at CUNY Graduate Center in New York. Sofía regularly participates in jury panels and advisory committees. Among these are the 2023 Frieze Tate Acquisition Fund in London, the 2018 Hugo Boss Prize at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award in 2017, and the 55th Venice Biennial in 2013. Since 2022, she is a board member of International Manifesta Foundation.
Previously, Sofía was the curator of contemporary art at Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, a foundation with offices in New York and Caracas. She has also been director at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City; held curatorial positions in New York at Art in General and Americas Society; and worked as the artistic director and chief curator of the 9a Bienal do Mercosul (2013) in Porto Alegre. Additionally, Sofía has guest-curated exhibitions at several spaces and museums internationally, including CCA in Vilnius, Kadist Art Foundation in Paris, and MALBA in Buenos Aires.
Sofía was born and raised in Baja California, Mexico.
CCS Bard Speaker Series
Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are selected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. All lectures are free and open, and are documented through audio recordings that reside in the CCS Bard Library & Archives and online here.
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