Pablo Helguera is Director of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics and The New School Art Collection. He is an artist, educator, and author based in New York. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from Kingston University, UK (2013), and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1993). Since 2020 he has served as Assistant Professor of Arts Management and Entrepreneurship in The New School’s College of Performing Arts, where he oversees the Master’s program in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship. From 2007 to 2020 he was Director of Adult and Academic Programs in the Department of Education at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Helguera’s work as an artist and educator centers on socially engaged practice. He conceived and directed The School of Panamerican Unrest, a project of more than one hundred public programs across twenty-five cities in twenty countries of the Americas, and founded Librería Donceles, a Spanish-language used bookstore of 25,000 titles that has traveled to thirteen cities. His books include Education for Socially Engaged Art: A Materials and Techniques Handbook (2011) and Art Scenes: The Social Scripts of the Art World (2012). He has curated Club Americano at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2017), served as Pedagogical Curator of the 8th Mercosul Biennial, and contributed as Cultural Mediator to Manifesta 15 Barcelona (2024). A mid-career retrospective, Pablo Helguera: Socialscapes, is scheduled for 2027 at the Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Image: Pablo Helguera. Photo by You Hah Kim, courtesy the Vera List Center for Art and Politics.