Mailyn Machado

Descripción del Profesional del arte

Machado earned a degree in art history from the University of Havana in 2001, and completed postgraduate studies in art criticism at Gerona University, Spain, in 2006. She is the chief editor of the magazine La Gaceta de Cuba. She currently teaches Theory in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Havana. Writer and critic of contemporary art and audiovisual media, she is a member of the Association of Critics of the Plastic Arts within the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC). In 2002 she received an award for Cinemagraphic Criticism for the book Apocalípticos e Integrados: La hibridez de la independencia en la era de su masificación. Her recent curatorial projects include the exhibition Play, video cubano, which since 2006 has toured to cultural centres in Spain and North America, and the group exhibition Ni a favor ni en contra, sino todo lo contrario at Cátedra de Arte de Conducta. She has organized exhibitions for the Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, the Havana Biennial, and the Cultural Centers of Spain in America, among other institutions. Her essays and critical texts have been published in major Cuban magazines and foreign publications.