José Roca – Colombia
Artistic Director of FLORA ars+natura
Curator
José Roca is a Colombian curator working from Bogotá. He is currently the Artistic Director of FLORA ars+natura, an independent space for contemporary art in Bogotá. From 2012 to 2015 he was the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art at Tate, London. From 2012 to 2018, curator of the LARA collection, Singapore. He managed for a decade the arts program at the Banco de la República in Bogotá. José was a co-curator of the I Poly/graphic Triennial in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2004), the 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2006) and the Encuentro de Medellín MDE07 (2007). He was the Artistic Director of Philagrafika 2010, Philadelphia’s international Triennial celebrating print in contemporary art. He served on the awards jury for the 52nd Venice Biennial (2007). And even more, José was the chief curator of the 8 Bienal do Mercosul in Porto Alegre, Brazil (2011).