CIFO appointed Jesús Fuenmayor as its new Director and Curator
The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation welcomes Jesús Fuenmayor as CIFO's new Director and Curator. Fuenmayor has been the Director, since 2005, of Periférico Caracas, a contemporary art space in Venezuela, where he organized more than 30 exhibitions.
This year, he has been the advisor for "Ciudad Sensorial", a program of urban interventions by artists which he founded for the Sucre Municipality in Caracas.
Fuenmayor has also been a member of CIFO's Honorary Advisory Committee since 2009. Also he was Advisor to Museo Jacobo Borges, Caracas, 1992-1995; Associate Curator at Espacio 204, Caracas, 1995-1997 and held a post as a Curator for the Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, in 2004.
Fuenmayor co-curated two traveling exhibitions: Jump Cuts. Venezuelan Contemporary Art, from the Mercantil Collection, which traveled to the Americas Society, New York (2005) and CIFO Art Space, Miami (2007); and Demonstration Room / Ideal House, which traveled through art institutions in Caracas, New York, Antwerp and Chicago between 2001 and 2002.
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Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection
