Osmany Suárez Rivero

OSMANY SUÁREZ RIVERO, Havana (1989): BA in Art History from the University of Havana (2010). He obtained a diploma in Anthropology and Heritage from the Universidad Católica de San Antonio de Murcia (2013) and a master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology from the Universidad Iberoamericana (2018), with a special focus on the field of cultural studies and marginal practices of cultural memory in contexts of transnational consumption. His PhD in Social Anthropology (2021), from the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico, with honours, addresses the dilemmas of the fetishisation of communist material culture in the global era.

For more than 15 years he has worked as a professor and researcher at the University of Havana (2010-2015), Universidad Iberoamericana (2016-2020) and the Universitat de Barcelona (2021-present), teaching subjects on the history of contemporary and modern art, Latin American and Caribbean art issues, cultural, visual and heritage anthropology, aesthetics, contemporary artistic culture theory and sociology of culture, among others.

He has worked as a theoretical assistant for the XII Havana Biennial ‘Between the idea and the experience’ (2015) and the XIII Havana Biennial ‘The construction of the possible’, (2019). He was nominated for the Fray Bernardino de Sahagún Prize of INAH (2018) as a member of the research group El mundo conexionista: consumos contemporáneos en la era global, SIN-III, IBERO- CONACYT; the first mention of the Prize for study and research between France and Cuba of the Victor Hugo House (2015) and the Sociocultural Essay Prize of the Juan Marinello Institute (2010).

He has served as a juror for visual arts in Latin America and the Caribbean; he has lectured on art, film and anthropology for the University of Havana, University of Granada, UNAM, Alabama University, University of Sussex, Universidad Iberoamericana A.C., COLMICH, Universitat de Barcelona, FIU, among others. His writings have appeared in books and magazines such as Artempo: Cutting Edge Art in Havana (2015), El Humanismo: promoción y preservación (2016); Ángel Palerm: un siglo después (2021), Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Arte Cubano, ArtCrónica, Artnexus, etc.

He is currently a member of the R&D research group GRC: Arte, Globalización, Interculturalidad (AGI/ART), attached to the Department of Art History at the University of Barcelona. His topics revolve around cultural memory in transnational spaces, the fetishisation of cultural artefacts, the overlaps between artistic practices and anthropology, and the interrelations between social and artistic imaginaries in the global era.