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Pablo Helguera is an world-renown artist, performer, cartoonist, poet, writer, author of several books, advice columnist, The Estheticist, lecturer/educator, a professor at the New School, father, husband and he can sing and write songs!\nTo understand Pablo and his work, you really need to listen to this episode of how he has evolved into the artist he's become. Pablo was born in 1971 in Mexico City to a family of classical musicians. His brother, 9 years older, was a poet and a philosopher. Pablo describes how his day to day, his brother was teaching him, opening his mind and having him read all this heavy philosophy shit at a young age. So while you were playing Nintendo, he was reading Nietzsche.\nAll of this powerful and unusual education helped create a precocious young man. When Pablo was still in his twenties, he was awarded a Creative Capital Grant to realize his project: School of Panamerican Unrest.\xa0The core of the project consisted of a traveling schoolhouse which made 30 stops between the U.S. state of Alaska and Chile's\xa0Ant\xe1rtica Chilena\xa0province\xa0between May and September 2006, following the entire length of the\xa0Pan-American Highway.\nPablo's unlimited, curiosity, drive and generous desire to connect with so many disparate communities makes for an extremely compelling Dr. Lisa session like nothing I've ever heard. You can enjoy Pablo's latest project, Beautiful Eccentrics HERE.\nInstagram: helguerapablo\nWebsite: http://pablohelguera.net/\n\nBIO:\nPablo Helguera\xa0(Mexico City, 1971) is a New York based artist working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, socially engaged art and performance. Helguera\u2019s work focuses in a variety of topics ranging from history, pedagogy, sociolinguistics, ethnography, memory and the absurd, in formats that are widely varied including the lecture, museum display strategies, musical performances and written fiction.\nHis work as an educator has usually intersected his interest as an artist. This intersection is best exemplified in his project,\xa0\u201cThe School of Panamerican Unrest\u201d, a nomadic think-tank that physically crossed the continent by car from Anchorage, Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, making 40 stops in between. Covering almost 20,000 miles, it is considered one of the most extensive public art projects on record as well as a pioneering work for the new generation of artworks regarded under the area of socially engaged art.\nPablo Helguera performed individually at the\xa0Museum of Modern Art\xa0/Gramercy Theater, in 2003, where he showed his work \u201cParallel Lives\u201d. His musical composition, \u201cEndingness\u201d has been performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Helguera has exhibited or performed at venues internationally too many to name\u2026His work has been reviewed in \u2026.\xa0Art in America, Artforum, The New York Times, ArtNews, amongst others. In 2008 he was awarded too many to name\nHelguera has worked since 1991 in a variety of contemporary art museums, most recently as head of public programs at the Education department of the Guggenheim Museum in New York (1998-2005). From 2007 to 2020, he was Director of Adult and Academic programs at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He has organized close to 1000 public events in conjunction with nearly 100 exhibitions.\xa0In 2010 he was appointed pedagogical curator of the 8th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which took place in September, 2011. He is currently Assistant Professor of Arts and Entrepreneurship at the College of Performing Arts at the New School in New York.\nHe is represented\xa0by\xa0Kent Fine Art\xa0in New York and\xa0Enrique Guerrero Gallery\xa0in Mexico City.\nHe is the author of many books, including Education for Socially Engaged Art (2011) and The Parable Conference (2014).\nHe writes a weekly column titled\xa0Beautiful Eccentrics.