Cuauhtémoc Medina, born in 1965, Mexico City. He is an art critic, curator and historian, holding a Ph.D. in History and Theory of Art from the University of Essex in Britain and a BA in History from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Since 1993 he has been a full-time researcher at the Institute de Investigaciones Estéticas at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), lecturer at the Philosophy Faculty and the Postgraduate Department of Art History of the same university, and between 2002 and 2008, he was the first Associate Curator of Latin American Art Collections at the Tate Modern.

He has widely published texts in books, catalogues and periodicals, and among other things between 1999 and 2013 he was in charge of the art critical section of the Reforma newspaper in Mexico, titled "Ojo Breve". A recent compilation on his critical interventions on art in Mexico has been published with the title Mutual Abuse by Cubo Blanco and RM in 2017.

11.07 On the Ideas of 12th Shanghai Biennale and Beyond

Cuauhtémoc Medina, the Chief Curator of the 12th Shanghai Biennale, will introduce the curatorial concepts and work experience of this programme in the lecture, including the interpretation of the current double theme from the various levels of art, society, history and politics, as well as detailed thinking on the decomposition and composition of the curatorial concepts. At the same time, as a curator and art historian who was mainly active in Europe, America and Latin America, how can he gradually observe the development of Chinese contemporary art in the past year, accumulate thinking, and finally show the particular environment responds to some extent of China and Shanghai by exhibition. Thus, the main goal is to achieve local relevance to the exhibition.