'''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 Atlántica, a bilingual quarterly magazine published by CAAM <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.caam.net/|title=Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno - CAAM|website=www.caam.net}}</ref>(Las Palmas, Spain); he is Curator at Large and Advisor of MUSAC <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.musac.org.es/ |title=Bricks and Parts |access-date=2006-10-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181026105338/http://musac.org.es/ |archive-date=2018-10-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref> MUSAC](León, Spain);and a member of the advisory board of Performa <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://performa-arts.org/|title=PERFORMA|website=performa-arts.org}}</ref> (New York). He is on the editorial board of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nkajournal.org/|title=Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art|website=www.nkajournal.org}}</ref> and a NY correspondent for Flash Art.
He was one of the curators of<ref>http://www.documenta12.de/archiv/d11/data/english/index.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402102036/http://www.documenta12.de/archiv/d11/data/english/index.html |date=2015-04-02 }} Documenta 11</ref> (Kassel, 2002), as part of the group directed by Okwui Enwezor. He was also one of the curators of the first and second<ref>http://universes-in-universe.de/car/africus/english.htm Johannesburg Biennials</ref> (1995 and 1997. The large list of exhibitions he has curated include<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artnetweb.com/guggenheim/insight/|title=IN_SIGHT: AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHERS, 1940 TO THE PRESENT|website=artnetweb.com}}</ref> In/Sight, African Photographers 1940 to the Present (Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1997, and Versiones del Sur. Latinoamerica at Centro de Arte Reina Sofia<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.museoreinasofia.es/index.html|title=Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía|date=May 26, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090526101011/http://www.museoreinasofia.es/index.html|archive-date=2009-05-26}}</ref> [ (Madrid, 2000). He was one of the curators of Fresh Cream (Phaidon Press, London, 2000),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.phaidon.com/|title=Home|website=Phaidon}}</ref> has authored more than a dozen books on artists, and has contributed to numerous other books and catalogues.
He recently{{when|date=February 2020}} curated important exhibitions of the works of Cerith Wyn Evans and Paul Pfeiffer at MUSAC.
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