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Residency Program
  Tamara Díaz
curator, San José, Costa Rica
April 15 - May 13, 2006
 
 

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.