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 [1](Las Palmas, Spain); he is Curator at Large and Advisor of MUSAC [2] MUSAC](León, Spain);and a member of the advisory board of Performa [3] (New York).
He was one of the curators of [5] (Kassel, 2002), as part of the group directed by Okwui Enwezor.
The large list of exhibitions he has curated include [7] In/Sight, African Photographers 1940 to the Present (Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1997, and Versiones del Sur.
curated important exhibitions of the works of Cerith Wyn Evans and Paul Pfeiffer at MUSAC.