Pablo Helguera

Pablo Helguera is highly regarded in the field of socially engaged art as both practitioner and educator. Since 2007, he has served as Director of Adult and Academic Programs in the Department of Education at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His visual art incorporates pedagogy, social engagement, historical research, and language. Past projects included a phonographic archive of dying languages, 14 visual artist "heteronyms," an alternative radio station in Italy, and an exhibition of four fictional opera composers. In 2006, as part of The School of Panamerican Unrest project, Helguera drove from Anchorage to Tierra del Fuego with a collapsible schoolhouse, organizing discussions, activist happenings and civic ceremonies along the way. He is the author of many books, including Manual of Contemporary Art Style (Jorge Pinto Books, 2007); and Education for Socially Engaged Art: A Materials and Techniques Handbook (2011). Helguera has received Creative Capital, Guggenheim, and Franklin Furnace Fellowships, and in 2011 he was the first recipient of the International Award for Participatory Art, given by the Assembly of Emiglia-Romagna in Italy. 

Helguera contributed to the Center's 2013 publication Pigeons on the Grass, Alas: Contemporary Curators Talk About the Field.