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Octavio Zaya

Born in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, date unknown

Octavio Zaya is an art critic and curator, born in Las Palmas (Canary Islands), and living in New York City since 1978. He is Director of Atlàntica, a bilingual quarterly magazine published by CAAM (Las Palmas, Spain); he is Curator at Large and Advisor of MUSAC MUSAC(Leàn, Spain) and a member of the Advisory Board of Performa (New York). 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 co-curators of Documenta 11 (Kassel, 2002), as part of the group directed by Okwui Enwezor.

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click to show details of Documenta 11- Frieze Review 2

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Review relating to an exhibition, 2002

click to show details of Documenta 11_Platform 5 : Exhibition / Catalogue

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Catalogue relating to an exhibition, 2002

click to show details of Documenta 11_Platform 5 : Exhibition / Short Guide

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Catalogue relating to an exhibition, 2002

click to show details of In the heart of the black box

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Article relating to an exhibition, 2002

click to show details of The show that maps out art’s future

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Review relating to an exhibition, 2002

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Kassel, Germany