Celia Prado

Descripción del Profesional del arte

Celia Prado nace en Vigo, en 1956, y reside y trabaja en Estocolmo (Suecia) desde 1978. Directora artística del Konstnärshuset /SKF, desde mayo de 2013. Es escritora y comisaria, a la vez que produce y gestiona exposiciones nacionales/ internacionales en el ámbito de la imagen-movimiento y arte contemporáneo o dirige actividades culturales relacionadas con ese campo. Le han sido asignadas distintas, e importantes, responsabilidades en entidades nacionales suecas y nórdicas dentro de esa disciplina, entre otras, el Consejo Escandinavo de las Artes (The Nordic Art Found), en el que desempeña labores de experta en la actualidad. Fue una de los cofundadores y comisaria-jefe de Tensta Konsthall, (Estocolmo), primera comisaria de arte contemporáneo en el Museo Nacional de Antigüedades (Estocolmo), comisaria en The Swedish Traveling Exhibitions de Suecia, co-comisaria de La 5ª Bienal Internacional de Arte en Gotemburgo (Suecia), en 2009, y del 51º Salón de Octubre de Belgrado (Serbia), en 2010. Ha comisariado una amplia gama de exposiciones entre cuyos artistas se encuentran, entre otros, Kutlug Ataman, Candize Breitz, Chris Cunningham, Amar Kanwar, Eva Koch, Rosa Barba, Susan Hiller, Tracey Moffatt, Shirin Neshat, Diana Thater, Salla Tykkä. Amit Goren, Mats Hjelm, Eva Koch, Ma Liuming, Tim Etchells, Luis Jacob, William Kentridge, Catherine Sullivan, Fiona Tan, Alexander Vaindorf, Artur Zmjewski, Harun Farocki, Judi Werthein, Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler, Jonas Dalhberg, Aernout Mik, Steve McQueen, Omer Fast. 1981 - 1988 Art Studies at Vasteras art School and The School of Printing Arts, Stockholm. 1988 - 2009 Art teaching, tutorials, lectures, articles and essays. 1997 - 2004 Co-founder, Art director and Member of the Advisory Board at TENSTA KONSTHALL,Stockholm. 2003 - 2009 Scandinavian correspondent for the art magazine art.se www.art-es.es 2003 - 2006 Member of the Managing Board at The University College of Arts and Design (Konstfack) Stockholm. www.konstfack.se 2004 - 2006 First appointed curator of Contemporary Art at The Museum of National Antiquities (Historiska Museet) 2006 - 2007 Member of the Managing Board at The National Public Art Council Sweden www.statenskonstrad.se/ 2006 - 2009 Board member of the reference group for the distribution of grants at The Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs (Statens Kulturrad). www.kulturradet.se/ 2007 - 2008 Curator of Contemporary Art at Bildmuseet. www.bildmuseet.umu.se/ Curator of National/International Contemporary Art, Swedish Travelling Exhibitions www.riksutstallingar.se Member of IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art) www.iktsite.org 2009 - 2010 Curator of the 5th Göteborg International Biennale for Contemporary Art in collaboration with Johan Pousette. http://goteborg.biennal.org/ 2010 Curator of the 51st October Salon in Belgrado in collaboration with Johan Pousette. http://oktobarskisalon.org Co- editor of the annual publication Future Exhibitions 2 www.riksutstallingar.se Member of the Advisory Board at the Swedbank Art Award http://artaward.swedbank.ee/eng/kunstnikud_vaindorf.html Jury member of the reference group for the distribution of Cultural grants at The Region of Vastra Gotaland http://www.vgregion.se Jury member of the Advisory Board for the distribution of BALTIC ART CENTER/BAC - AIR artists - in - Residence program http://www.balticartcenter.com/docs/sve/residence/air/air.html Advisory board member for IASPIS archive of Contemporary Art