Marimar Benítez, a critic, art historian, and director of the Escuela de Bellas Artes in San Juan, has written extensively on the contemporary art of Puerto Rico, and has previously organized exhibitions on old Puerto Rican painters José Campeche and Francisco Oller for the Museo de Arte de Ponce. She was also the curator of the Puerto Rico section of The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States 1920–1970, a New York exhibition held at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 1988.Pepon Osorio (b. 1955) grew up in Santurce, Puerto Rico; and later moved to New York City in the wake of Minimalism and Conceptualism, two movements defined by their “less is more” sensibility. After receiving an undergraduate degree in sociology from Lehman College in the Bronx, and a master’s degree in art education from Teacher’s College, Columbia University, he began to work primarily with Latino communities as a social worker for the Child Abuse Prevention Unit of the Human Resources Administration in New York. This experience as a social worker would lay the foundation for his later artistic collaborations with Puerto Rican/Latino communities. Today, Osorio is one of the most significant artists in the United States; a master of installation art, his work is known for baroque and polemically charged environments. The artist’s use of mass-produced objects, coupled with his socio-anthropological savvy—gained in part from his having been a social worker in the South Bronx—offers the spectator the potential for multiple readings of his work. In the end, his work speaks to the Latino community, as well as to society in general. Numbering among the most important of the many awards Osorio has received, are the CalArts Award in the Arts, and the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship.This is the Spanish version of document 842787.