MARCO NAMES SOFÍA HERNÁNDEZ CHONG CUY AS CURATOR-AT-LARGE
With a career spanning more than two decades, Hernández Chong Cuy joins the museum tasked with developing a critical curatorial vision for its permanent collection.
The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO) announces the appointment of Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy as the institution's Curator-at-Large, a position from which she will lead the analysis and study of the museum's holdings. The Curator-at-Large role is conceived around collaboration with specialists in the specific fields for which the position was created. In this instance, it emerges with the mission of building arguments that allow for a vision of contemporary art from northern Mexico, taking into account its cultural complexity, its border dialogues, and its ties to artistic production in the United States.
Positions of this kind are held mainly at museums of great international prestige, particularly at Anglo-Saxon institutions. This is the first time the position has been established in Mexico, and it will be sponsored by philanthropist and collector Yolanda Santos de Hoyos, who has a long trajectory in contemporary art and who served on MARCO's Board of Directors during its founding period. Although she is no longer a member of the board, Santos de Hoyos was closely involved in the process of creating the Curator-at-Large position, engaging actively with the current Board of Directors, chaired by Alfonso Barragán, as well as with the museum's general director, Taiyana Pimentel Paradoa.
A native of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy is a contemporary art curator who served as director of Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam, Netherlands, formerly known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art. She also served as contemporary art curator for the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection (United States/Venezuela) and as director of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City. She holds a degree in Visual Arts from the Universidad de Monterrey and a master's degree in curatorial studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in New York. Together with Diana Jiménez, Minoru Kiyota, and Mayté Miranda, Hernández Chong Cuy is part of the collective 100 Grados de Arte in Mexicali, which organized the first edition of that Baja California capital's art week.
"After reviewing the profiles and trajectories of two finalists, we chose Hernández Chong Cuy for the critical vision she has developed, particularly through the work she is currently carrying out in the Mexicali-Calexico border region," said Pimentel. "The new plans for a second floor dedicated to contemporary visual production focused on northern Mexico will take shape through the museum's collection in dialogue with contributions—in the form of loans—from several collections in the region, and will unfold in different stages," Pimentel Paradoa continued.
"This project is intended as a work in constant motion and dialogue with our audience, and it will incorporate an educational dimension and encourage debate. Finally, this project is part of a series of critical strategies through which the museum partners with multiple agents of Monterrey society in order to pursue a critical positioning of the concept of northern Mexico," added.
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