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November 02, 2006

Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Director/Chief Curator, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation and the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, 11-3-06


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Cecilia Fajardo-Hill is a British-Venezuelan art historian and curator of contemporary art. She has been Director/Chief Curator of Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation and the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection since January 2005. Ms. Fajardo-Hill was General Director of the Sala Mendoza, an alternative space for contemporary art in Caracas, Venezuela, from 1997 to 2001. She has curated and organized numerous exhibitions of the work of emerging artists in Venezuela, including Alexander Apóstol, José Antonio Hernández-Diez, and Javier Téllez; as well as solo shows of internationally recognized artists such as Laura Anderson, Candice Breitz, Susan Hiller, Mona Hatoum, and Steve McQueen.

Ms. Fajardo-Hill has written about the work of Hatoum, Anderson, Jimmie Durham, José Bedia, Miguel Angel Ríos, and Carlos Capelán, and on contemporary art and artists from Latin America.

CIFO, the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, is a non-profit organization, established in 2002 by Ella Fontanals-Cisneros and her family to foster cultural and educational exchange within the visual arts.

CIFO has three primary initiatives —

  • CIFO Art Space — a permanent venue for the presentation of engaging and provocative contemporary art exhibitions highlighting works from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection

  • Works by it’s grantees and commissioned artists and experimental, challenging art programs

  • Grants and Commissions Programs supporting emerging and mid-career contemporary multi-disciplinary artists from Latin America; and offering support to other cultural endeavors including Miami Art Central

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