Pablo Helguera

PABLO HELGUERA (Mexico City, 1971) creates work that focuses on history, pedagogy, sociolinguistics and anthropology in formats such as lectures, museum displays, performance and written fiction. His project The School of Panamerican Unrest (2003-2011), an early example of pedagogically-focused social practice, consisted of a nomadic think-tank that physically crossed the continent by car from Anchorage to Tierra del Fuego. He has widely exhibited internationally (MoMA, Havana Biennial, Performa, Reina Sofia, amongst many other venues) and has been the recipient of the Guggenheim and Franklin Furnace Fellowships and the Creative Capital and Art Matters grant. He was the first recipient of the International Award of Participatory Art of the Emilia Romagna Region in Italy. His book, Education for Socially Engaged Art (2011), a primer for social practice, has quickly become adopted as a main textbook for art schools and university programs internationally. He is also the author of several other books, including: The Pablo Helguera Manual of Contemporary Art Style; Theatrum Anatomicum (and other performance lectures); What in the World; and Art Scenes: The Social Scripts of the Art World, a book on the sociology of contemporary art.