Cecilia Fajardo-Hill is a British-Venezuelan art historian and curator of contemporary art. She holds a master’s degree in twentieth-century art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Essex. She was general director of 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, among them: 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. Fajardo-Hill has written about the work of Hatoum, Anderson, Jimmie Durham, José Bedia, Miguel Angel Rios, and Carlos Capelán, and on contemporary art and artists from Latin America.
