Mario Torres Author

Antonio Sergio Bessa is director of programs at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. A distinguished curator, Bessa has organized several critically acclaimed exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including Paulo Bruscky: Art is Our Last Hope (2013) and Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100 (2008) at the Bronx Museum; Re: La Chinoise, Baumgartner Gallery, New York (2002); and Animating Fahlström, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France (2002). He is the author of Öyvind Fahlström: The Art of Writing (2008). Bessa received a PhD in art education from New York University. Mario Torres was a Milton and Sally Avery Curatorial Fellow at the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2011) and curatorial associate for Beyond the Supersquare at the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2012–14). Trained as an urban planner and art historian, Torres uses social theory frameworks to understand art, architecture, and the built environment as structures of culture, politics, and economics.