Graciela Kartofel
U.S. and Mexican Permanent Resident, G.K. is an Art Historian Graduated from the Liberal Arts College at the UBA- University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Works as faculty, lecturer, mentor, adviser, critic and independent curator specializing in Modern and Contemporary Art, and Latin American Art. Graciela Kartofel created the area of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art at UNAM Mexican Nat’l Autonomous University, where she taught for more than a decade. GK has been a member of the faculty and visiting professor in varios universities: Hochschule für Künstleriche und Industrielle Gestaltung in Linz, Austria; UNAM (Mexican National Autonomous University); at Cristobal Colón University, and University of Xalapa, Veracruz; Aguascalientes Autonomous University, all these in Mexico; at the Southwest School of Arts and Crafts, San Antonio, TX, among others.
She has curated, authored, co-authored, & edited books published internationally, among which are the following: Lola Alvarez Bravo and Mariana Yampolsky – Pleasure and developments, Throckmorton Fine Arts. 2018. Nueva York. Lotería de Artistas / Artists’ Lotery. 2017. Box with book, cards, boards, music, beans, and digital animations. Design and Educational Award. Lourdes Almeida -Shoes Mithology. 2017. University of San Lius Potosí. Nine Women Mexican Photographer Pioneers 2015. Ed.Throckmorton Fine Arts, New York. Tzompantli – 48 Visiones Contemporáneas. 2013. Ed. Tres Picos, México. Octavio Bajonero - 50 años de Grabador. 2010. Ed. Univer. Autónoma de Aguascalientes, México. Moctezuma’s Table. 2010. Co-author. Texas University Press. Guillermo Ceniceros, 2009. Ed. Universidad de Durango, Mexico. The Contemporary Mexican Art in the Collection of the National Museum of the Death, UAA University Editions, 2007 Three Years Memory Box of the Guanajuato Printing Center for the Arts,’06, Ed. Guanajuato, Mexico Seven Worlds, Veracruz Ceramics, Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes de Veracruz, México, 2004 La cerámica en la escultura/Clay Sculpture, 2002, Morevallado Ed.,México. Mathías Goeritz, Un Artista Plural, (Mathias Goeritz, a Plural Artists) 1992, CONACULTA, Mexico. The Schirn, Frankfurt, Germany. Ediciones de y en Artes Visuales - Lo formal y lo alternativo (Editions of & in Visual Arts – The established and the alternative), 1992, UNAM, Mex. Mathías Goeritz, Einem Deutsche Kunstler in Mexiko (Mathías Goeritz, a German artist in Mexico), 1987, Jonas Verlag, Germany. José Luis Cuevas, Su Concepto del Espacio (José Luis Cuevas, His Concept of Space), 1986, UNAM, Mexico. Naomi Siegmann, esculturas, (Naomi Siegmann, Sculptures),1984, Katun, Mexico. Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós, 1978/9, CEAL (Centro Editor de America Latina), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Homage to Octavio Paz, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York USA. Traditions of the Day of the Dead, Grand Central Terminal, New York, USA. Joseph Beuys, traveling through eleven Latin American Museums. Manuel Marín, Plaza Mayor, XXI Int’l Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Articles by the author have appeared in a variety of publications, among them American Ceramics, Artes de México, Revista del Colegio de Bachilleres, Los Universitarios, Revista de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Revista de la Frontera Norte, Plural, El ciudadano, Foto-Zoom, Cuartoscuro, Excelsior, Cultura Norte, Novedades, UnomásUno, Reforma, Acento/La Voz de Michoacán, Cerámica, Tiempo, Espacios, Novedades, Magenta, VOGUE, Revista Sin Nombre, Cultura, El Grito, Tramemos, La Prensa, G.A.M, De-Muebles, and ArtNexus.
The author has published numerous forewords for catalogs and has organized and presented papers at conferences, colloquia and symposiums. She has been a member of the jury, portfolio reviewer, and advisor on a broad range of international educational, curatorial and editorial projects including Houston PhotoFest, USA; the Lotz International Triennial, Poland; the Goethe Institute, Mexico; Project ACE, Argentina. She is radio correspondent for La Radio de Todos, Chiapas, Mexico and Radio Cultura, Argentina. She has conducted numerous TV shows and broadcasts from 1976 to 1994, and has participated in film and video from 1983 to the present. Kartofel has designed exhibition spaces for: Center for Foreign Studies, UNAM, University City, Mexico; Mexican Cultural Institute NY; BANCOMEXT, NY and NAFINSA, New York, which earned the team the New York Award for Historical Conservation.
Graciela Kartofel is member of AICA-New York, member of CRSA -Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association, CAA and PEN. She is a Board Member Art21, Magazine of the University Center of Fine Arts, San Paolo, Brazil, and Corresponding Editor at ArtNexus.