Margarita Gonzalez Lorente

Biography

Margarita Gonzalez Lorente is the Curator of International Contemporary Art at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana. Previously, she was the Deputy Director of the Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center and has served as the curator of the Havana Biennial (2005-2019).

She has curated several exhibitions, including, Tres Miradas, Alejandro Otero Museum, Caracas (2007) and Cuban Masters (coordinator), Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Cuenca, Ecuador (2004).

Lorente has contributed to many publications, including the 13th Biennial of Havana; An experience of life, Amano magazine (Amano Empire Corporation, Canada, 2019); What Biennial? Havana, always Havana, Cuban Art Magazine (2015); Kelvin López: between the islands, storms and common friends, On Cuba Magazine (2014); and India in the biennials of Havana, UCA Magazine, University of the Bicentennials, Cádiz (2012).

She has been honoured with numerous awards, including Recognition of Metropolitan Radio (2020); Tropical Gypsy Distinction, Provincial Directorate of Culture of Havana (2013); and ICA Award for The Best Curation of a Collective Exhibition (1991).

Lorente holds a Bachelor degree in Art History from the University of Havana (1985) and Master’s degree in Art History, I module, Faculty of Arts and Letters from the University of Havana (1996). She has completed doctoral courses in art history from the faculty of Geography and History at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (1996-1998).

Born in 1962 in Havana, she currently works and lives in Havana, Cuba.

SAF participation:
March Meeting 2021