Tamara
Díaz Bringas (b. Cuba, 1973) has been living in San Jose,
Costa Rica, since 1999. She is a Curator and art critic with a BA
in History of Art, University of Havana, Cuba (1996); Masters in
Museology, University of Valladolid, Spain (2003). Since late 1999
she has been working as curator and editorial coordinator for TEOR/ética,
an independent non-profit space based in San José. The most
recent shows she has curated include a retrospective exhibition
about the artist Rolando Castellón, Museum of Contemporary
Art and Design (MADC), Costa Rica; What is real?, an urban
intervention project, San José; The mist-making machine,
MADC, San José; Dealing the cards: Intertexts
on Costa Rican plastic arts, TEOR/ética, San José;
the Central American and Caribbean exhibition curated together with
Virginia Pérez-Ratton for the VIII International Biennial
in Cuenca, Ecuador.
Ms. Díaz was formerly
at the Casa de la Américas, Havana, Cuba and was the art
critic for the newspaper La Nación, Costa Rica.
She is the author of En el trazo de las constelaciones,
a series of essays on Costa Rican contemporary art published in
2003 by the Spanish Cultural Centre in San Jose, Costa Rica.
Tamara Díaz was recommended to apexart's program by Virginia
Pérez-Ratton, Director, TEOR/ética, San José,
Costa Rica. |