Veronica Mijelshon is the Gallery Director & Curators' Liaison for the
NURTUREart Gallery and Emerging Curators’ Resource Center and an 
independent curator. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and completed 
her architecture degree at the University of Buenos Aires. She worked as 
the assistant to the Director at both the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes 
(Buenos Aires Fine Arts Museum) and at the Salas Nacionales de Pintura, in 
Buenos Aires.  After moving to New York in 1997 Veronica Mijelshon worked 
at the Argentinean Consulate organizing art and cultural events. She has 
also worked in art galleries such as Urban Architecture and Nohra Haime 
Gallery and with Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz, an independent public art consultant.

Currently Veronica Mijelshon is working on two independent projects:
GACHU --which stands for G: gifts, A: art, C: colors, HU: hugs-- a welcoming 
kit for hospitalized children which will contain objects created by selected
visual artists, and also a project to put up a glass mosaic mural on the
façade of the Marcy Ave. Building, a Bedford-Stuyvesant residency for 
the mentally ill.  

Past independent curatorial exhibitions include: Flight, a site-specific work 
installed in a warehouse in DUMBO, Brooklyn made of aircraft cable by artist 
Lucia Warck Meister in 2003; an installation commissioned by Technics to 
showcase the legendary evolution of their turntables, made by artist Sharon 
Louden in Miami, FL in 2004; Projections, a rotating show of digital works 
projected onto various surfaces; Paper, Papel, Papier…a group exhibition 
re-interpreting the use of this ancient material, and  it was here a minute 
ago, a multi-media show about ephemeral art at the NURTUREart Gallery in 
Williamsburg, NY in 2004/05.