Octavio Zaya

Who is 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 Documenta 11, as part of the group directed by Okwui Enwezor. He was also one of the curators of the first and second Johannesburg Biennials