Taiyana Pimentel
Taiyana Pimentel
Mexico
Curator on contemporary art and director of Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros and La Tallera in Mexico City since 2009. She conceived and coordinated the renovation project of La Tallera in Cuernavaca, Morelos. She has curated a series of exhibitions such as No Lone Zone-The Redeeming Institution, a collaboration between SAPS and Tate Modern, London-Mexico City; Institutional Empowerment with Colectivo Tercerunquinto at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico; Injured: Project for Ecatepec, Fundación Colección Jumex, Mexico; 1549 State’s Crimes, Santiago Sierra, Centro Cultural Tlatelolco, Mexico; Bridge, Francis Alÿs, La Habana-Key West; Tijuana Sessions: Contemporary Art from Tijuana, Contemporary Art Center Alcalá 31, Madrid, 2005. From 1999 to 2001, she worked at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Rufino Tamayo as the curator of “Sala 7: Proyectos de Arte Contemporáneo”, which included exhibitions of Javier Téllez, Minerva Cuevas; Santiago Sierra or Miguel Calderon. She has a B.A. in Art History from the University of Havana and studied a M.A. in Art History from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).