Gladys Garrote

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CORE SKILLS AND COMPETENCES

• Expert in traditional and next-generation curatorial practice, event organization and management, relations with artists, collectors, partners and sponsors, consultancy and sales for physical and digital art, and artistic direction.

• Held seminars and workshops in institutions such as Havana University (Havana, Cuba) and the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Halle, Germany) and served as speaker in dozens of talks around the world on digital art, Web3.0 for culture and Non Fungibles Tokens (NFTs).

• Is capable of conceiving and bringing to life successful multidisciplinary events starting from emerging cultural trends both in the physical world and in the Metaverse.

• Has extensive experience working with emerging and mid-career artists.

• Led the NFT Art Movement in Havana, Cuba during 2020-2023 helping to onboard around 100 artists, creating a new economic model for the arts in the country.

•Excellent communicational and interpersonal skills developed during almost a decade as a professor in the Art History Department at the Havana University and as a saleswoman in 331 Art Space gallery.

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCES (SELECTION)

June 2023 Co-curator / EROTIKA II Pride Festival (Fort Lauderdale, FL), event at MadArts, a 50,000 square foot space and in the metaverse with an exhibition and performance program featuring 27 artists from the five continents. Endeavour organised through ClitSpash, a feminist digital art curatorial collective Garrote co-founded in February 2021.

March 2023 Conceiver, curator and producer / Beyond the Body,(Havana, Cuba), Multidisciplinary hybrid, digital and physical art show held in Galleria Taller Gorría as well as virtually in Ninfa Market Place in Milan Italy. December 2022 – April 2023 Curator / Poesía de Protesta theVERSEverse gallery, a collection of poems written by 10 hispanic female poets and interpreted by international visual artists. The collection was shown at Refraction Festival (Miami, Fl), Ignite,

(MadArts Fort Lauderdale, FL), NFT Biennial (Bogotá Colombia), Proof of People, NFTNYC, NYC), NFT Europe, Valencia Spain.

May 2022 Curator / NFT Liverpool, Adelia Gallery, (Liverpool, UK) Garrote was selected next to key figures of the NFT ecosystem to curate one of the largest physical NFT art events until the date. Her selection consisted on digital art works by 100+ Latin American artists

March 2022 Curator and Art Consulting/ NFT Museum, Lynn University (Boca Raton, FL) Lynn University is the first American University to host an NFT Museum, Garrote curated the first show the Museum held.

CORPORATE WORK

March 2020 - Present Cultural strategist and Consultant for artists, firms and collectors / multiple artists, private collections and Web3 projects such as Snark.art, The Infinite Machine Movie Collection, Scholas Ocurrentes, Latin Builders, theVERSEverse, Nifty’s, among others.

September 2021 - Present Curator and Head of Artists Relations / Infinity Machine Movie Collection. The Infinite Machine NFT Collection is a collaborative effort by 36 emerging artists mainly from countries where decentralization has a major impact on lives and finances, including Cuba, Argentina, Venezuela, Kenya, Bolivia, and Chile. The proceeds will finance the first feature film about the Ethereum Blockchain. The movie will be directed by Scott Free Productions (Ridley Scott Production Company). Garrote selected the artists and coordinate the production of the artworks as well as the further marketing involving them.

April 2016 – December 2020 Collectors’ Relations and Studio Manager / 331 Art Space (Havana Cuba) worked a saleswoman in the gallery space selling contemporary art to high-end international clients.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

September 2014 – June 2022 Instructor Professor at Havana University. Art History Department. (Havana, CU). Courses: Art Appreciation (1st year Art History students), Cultural Marketing (3rd year Art History students), Cuban Art History (5th year Communication Students). Tesis Director of a dozen of undergrad students of Havana University in the subjects of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Market, Cuban and Latin-American Art. Organizers of the 1st Colloquium of Art History . May – June 2022 Guest Professor at Romanistik. Martin-Luther-Universität Halle- Wittenberg (Halle, Germany)

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)

September-December 2021 Columnist / La Revolución Digital / Hypermedia Magazine 2017 Essayist/ Apuntes a propósito de Grand Tour/ CdeCuba. Revista de arte cubano. Valencia, España.

2014 Essayist/ El valor del virtuosismo / CdeCuba. Revista de Artecubano. No. 17, Valencia, España, pp. 14-17.

2012 Essayist/ Impresiones sobre Gangsters en la Habana / Revista Artecubano. No.1 2012, La Habana, Cuba.

EDUCATION

2017 – 2021 Master in Modern and Contemporary Art History / Havana University, Havana (CU). Degree with Honors. Thesis on the relationship marketing of Cuban Contemporary art market.

2009 – 2014 Bachelor in Art History /Havana University, Havana (CU). LANGUAGES

Native language: Spanish.

Speaking and writing fluently (C2) in: English