Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet

Havana, Cuba, 1958. MFA, University of Iowa, 1992.
Interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator and Fulbright scholar. 
PhD Candidate, Romance Studies Department, Duke University.

Ferrera-Balanquet has exhibited at the Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California; Zentral Bibliothek, Zurich, Switzerland;   Fundacion de Arte Contemporaneo, Montevideo, Uruguay; 33ro Festival Internacional Cervantino, Leon, Mexico; Exit Art Gallery, New York City; Alchemy Projects, MAAP Festival,  Australia; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago; Video IN, Vancouver B.C., Canada; LACE, Los Angeles, California; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Centro de Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona, Spain among others.

His writings have appeared in Artecubano, Vol.3-4, Havana, Cuba; SalonKritik, Madrid, Spain; Bienal de La Habana Para leer, Universitat De Valancia, Spain; Public No. 41, Toronto, Canada; Escaner Cultural, Santiago de Chile, Chile; Integración y Resistencia en la Era Global, Evento Teórico Décima Bienal de La Habana, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wilfredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba; Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise, Volume 3, Dossier 1, Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Duke University; Vídeo en Latinoamerica. Una visión crítica, Editorial Brumaria, Madrid; Tierra Adentro, México DF; Forum Idea, 9na Bienal de La Habana 2006; Circus Reader, Melbourne, Australia; Felix: A Journal of Media Arts and Communication, New York; Artpapers, Atlanta; and the Mexican literary magazine Navegaciones Zur.

Executive curator of Arte Nuevo InteractivA: Bienal de las Nuevas Artes, Merida_MX (five edition 2001-2009), Ferrera-Balanquet has organized numerous art, video and new media exhibitions. Among them Traslocalidades en Movimiento, video art, Centro Cultural de España en El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador, 2008; In[ter]vención,  [R]-[R]-[F] – Festival, JavaMuseum: Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art, Cologne, Germany, 2004; Huellas de un Corazón Sangrante en Tropicana, MIX-Brasil, Museo de Sonido e Imagen, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1994; Nomads: Plural Identities in Traveling Territories, Randolph Street Galley, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1993; .

In addition to a Fulbright Fellowship, Ferrera-Balanquet has been awarded grants from The Prince Claus Foundation, FOECAY, US/Mexico Cultural Fund, The Australian Network of Art and Technology, the National Endowment for the Arts and The Lyn Blumenthal Video Foundation.

 

 

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