Raquel Carrera is an art historian and curator based in Havana, Cuba. She holds a BA in Art History from the University of Havana and a Masters from the University of Salamanca, Spain. From 2005 to 2010 Raquel worked as Associate Director of Visual Arts Programs for the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba (LFC), a non- governmental, non-profit art and cultural institution in Havana. Raquel curated the Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China from 2010 to 2011. Raquel co-founded Yagruma.com, a crowdfunding app for Cuban arts and cultural projects, and was Director of the Cuban art gallery Evolucion in Lima, Peru, from 2015 through 2016.