Octavio Zaya


Octavio Zaya is an art critic and curator, born in Las Palmas, and living in New York City since 1978. He is Director of Atlántica, a bilingual quarterly magazine published by CAAM ; he is Curator at Large and Advisor of MUSAC MUSAC];and a member of the Advisory Board of Performa . He is on the Editorial Board of Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art and a NY correspondent for Flash Art.
He was one of the curators of , as part of the group directed by Okwui Enwezor. He was also one of the curators of the first and second . He was one of the curators of Fresh Cream , has authored more than a dozen books on artists, and has contributed to numerous other books and catalogues.
He recently curated important exhibitions of the works of Cerith Wyn Evans and Paul Pfeiffer at MUSAC.