Carlos Basualdo
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In September 2005 Carlos Basualdo was appointed Curator of Contemporary Art. Basualdo came to the Museum from the Universitá IVAV in Venice, where he is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Art and Design. He was Chief Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, from 2000 until 2002 where he organized a lively series of exhibitions and programs. Basualdo has also organized and contributed to many exhibitions around the world over the past decade. He is the curator of the current Tropicália: Revolution in Brazilian Culture (1967-1972), an interdisciplinary traveling exhibition that received much notice since opening in October at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. He served as curator for The Structure of Survival, as part of the 50th Venice Biennial in 2003, and was one of the co-curators of documenta XI in Kassel, Germany, in 2002. In 2004 he curated The Uses of the Image: Photography, Film and Video from the Jumex Collection at the Buenos Aires Museum of Latin American Art (MalBA) and the Telefonica Foundation. Fluent in English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Basualdo is a native of Argentina. He received his degree in literature from the National University of Rosario in 1982, and also participated in the Independent Study Program of the Critical Studies Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1994–1995).
