Jesús Fuenmayor

Jesús Fuenmayor is an academic curator with more than twenty-five years of experience in the field of modern and contemporary art exhibitions. From 2005–2011, he served as Director of the contemporary art space Periférico Caracas in Venezuela, and from 2012–2015, he was Director and Curator of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO). Some of his exhibitions include Impulse, Reason, Sense, Conflict (2015), which focused on abstract art in the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection. In 2015, he also curated the retrospective Eugenio Espinoza: Unruly Supports 1970-1980 at the Pérez Art Museum, Miami in addition to Gego: Autobiography of a Line at the Dominique Lévy Gallery in New York. At CIFO he also organized Permission to Be Global: Prácticas Globales (2014) with curators Jen Mergel and Liz Munsell from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He is currently the general curator of the 14th Cuenca Biennial (Ecuador, 2018).