Pablo Helguera (b. Mexico City, 1971) is a New York-based artist working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, socially engaged art, and performance. Helguera’s work focuses on topics ranging from history, pedagogy, sociolinguistics, ethnography, and memory, to the absurd, in formats that are widely varied including the lecture, museum display strategies, musical performances, and written fiction. Helguera has exhibited or performed at venues such as the Museo de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; ICA Boston; RCA London; 8th Havana Biennal, PERFORMA 05, Havana; Shedhalle, Zurich; MoMA P.S.1, New York; Brooklyn Museum; IFA Galerie, Bonn; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; MALBA museum in Buenos Aires, Ex-Teresa Espacio Alternativo in Mexico City; The Bronx Museum; Artist Space; and Sculpture Center, amongst others. Reviews of his work have appeared in publications like Art in America, Artforum, The New York Times, and ArtNews. In 2008, he was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and was the recipient of a 2005 Creative Capital Grant. He is the author of many books, including Education for Socially Engaged Art (2011) and The Parable Conference (2014). He writes a weekly column titled Beautiful Eccentrics.