Miguel A. López
Consider art's role in politics and public life, collaborative dynamics, and queer and feminist views of history with curator Miguel A. López.
Free for all audiences
Film/Video Theater
During his talk, Miguel A. López will explore nontraditional forms of curatorship. He will discuss a collection of strategies and models rising from localized needs and different ways of sharing resources, knowledge, and space.
Audiences will also learn about three specific examples of curatorial work that decentralize authority and foster collaborative working models. The first is the Museo Travesti, founded by the late drag queen and philosopher Giuseppe Campuzano, whose collection became a resource for Peru’s trans community. The second is Losing Human Form: A Seismic Image of the 1980s in Latin America, an exhibition developed by Red Conceptualismos del Sur, which was founded by an international group of researchers, artists, and archivists. Losing Human Form, presented at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid in 2012, offers an effective example of collective curation. The third is TEOR/éTica, a nonprofit visual arts organization in San José, Costa Rica, that switched from a centralized leadership structure to a model of collective directorship based on shared responsibility.
A Q&A will follow the program.
About the Artist
Miguel A. López
Miguel A. López (b. 1983 in Lima, Peru) is Chief Curator at the Museo Universitario del Chopo, UNAM, Mexico City. Recent exhibitions include Fernanda Laguna: My Heart is a Magnet (1992–2025) (Malba, Buenos Aires; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2026–27); Santiago Yahuarcani: The Beginning of Knowledge (Whitworth Art Gallery, MASP, Museo Universitario del Chopo, 2025–27; co-curated with Sook-Kyung Lee, Darren Pih, Hannah Vollam, and Amanda Carneiro); and the traveling retrospective Cecilia Vicuña: Seehearing the Enlightened Failure (2019–22).