His work has become a timeless allegory of Philippine pride, such as his seminal piece, The Spoliarium, which portrays a true-to-life depiction of gladiators, whereas The Blood Compact (or Sandugo in Tagalog) captures the historical ritual in 1565 performed by Datu Sikatuna of Bohol and Miguel López de Legazpi. About Us. His work investigates collaborative dynamics and feminist re-articulations of art and culture in recent decades. Between 2015-2020 he worked at TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica, first as Chief Curator, and since 2018 as Co-director. Her practice focuses mainly on collective processes, experimental art, feminist art, and the themes of gender and sexuality traversed by the processes of political memory. His recent books as author and editor include Robar la historia. In a recent lecture, Miguel López, close friend and curator of artist Cecilia Vicuña, spoke of coming across a palabrarma (word-weapon) of hers that he had not seen before: CON o … He has been part of the artists run space and collective Espacio La Culpable in Lima, Peru (2006-2008) and has written about deviant practices, … Highlights from the two-week intensive organized by The Museum of Modern Art with the Center for Curatorial Leadership This March, the 2018 MoMA International Curatorial Institute for Modern and Contemporary Art brought together 11 curators from institutions around the globe for a two-week leadership intensive in New York City. MoMA International Curatorial Institute 2018. Miguel A. López (Lima, 1983) es un escritor, investigador y curador de arte contemporáneo. Miguel A. Lopez: I first heard about Grupo Chaclacayo when I was studying, when I was about 19. She is a 2019–20 Guggenheim fellow. Miguel A. López is codirector and chief curator of TEOR/éTica, San José, Costa Rica. Sergio Zevallos. This year he curated ‘Cecilia Vicuña, a retrospective exhibition’, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam. He has published in periodicals such as Artforum, Afterall, ramona, e-flux journal, Art in America, Art Journal, Manifesta Journal, among others. He has published in periodicals such as Afterall, ramona, Manifesta Journal, Tercer Texto, The Exhibitionist, Art in America, among others. Organized by Pedro Lasch and the FHI Social Practice Lab with support from the Franklin Humanities I World Arts Initiative at Duke University, this Conversation Cycle is part of a larger program entitled '20-22 The Ongoing Biennial'. In person visits with some of our guests will also be presented at a later stage in collaboration with the the AAHVS Department and the Nasher Museum of Art. His work also focuses on queer re-articulations of history from a Southern perspective. He has recently curated Social Energies / Vital Forces: Natalia Iguiñiz: Art, Activism, Feminism (1994-2018), ICPNA, Lima (2018); Balance and Collapse, Patricia Belli: Works 1986-2016, TEOR/éTica and Fundación Ortiz Gurdian, San José and Managua (2016/2017); Teresa Burga. His work investigates collaborative dynamics and feminist re-articulations of art and culture in recent decades. Writer, researcher, and Co-Director and Chief Curator of TEOR/éTica in San José, Costa Rica. Cecilia Vicuña, a retrospective exhibition brings together over a hundred works by the poet, visual artist, and activist Cecilia Vicuña. Moderated by Gabriela Rangel (Director and Chief Curator of Visual Arts, Americas Society). Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke Arts, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Nasher Museum of Art, NEH Virtual and Augmented Reality for the Digital Humanities Institute, PhD in Computational Media, Arts & Cultures, The Civil Rights Movement: Grassroots Perspectives, Virtual and Augmented Reality for the Digital Humanities Institute, Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature @ FHI, Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory, Duke Kunshan University Humanities Research Center, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER), HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Sciences, Technology Alliance and Collaboratory), Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEsd-uhrDgiE9dKfiHakJ_kA58R76wSVlH9, https://sites.fhi.duke.edu/socialpracticelab/team/miguel-a-lopez/. Curator: Miguel A. López. As López explained, various countries in Latin America had an intense period of dictatorships, and as a result many artists looked for asylum elsewhere. 1 Writer, researcher, and Co-Director and Chief Curator of TEOR/éTica in San José, Costa Rica. His work investigates collaborative dynamics and feminist re-articulations of art and culture in recent decades. ‘Everything that’s happened now, with the country having completely collapsed, hadn’t happened, but you could see it coming. Miguel A. López Chief Curator at Teorética and Lado V, San José, Costa Rica Recent career highlight: “Balance and Collapse. His work investigates collaborative dynamics and … His work investigates collaborative dynamics and feminist re-articulations of art and culture in recent decades. Miguel A. López is a Peruvian writer, curator, researcher and artist whose work investigates collaborative dynamics and transformations in the understanding of and engagement with Latin American politics in recent decades. Miguel López, Writer and Independent Curator, Lima Thiago de Paula Souza, Independent Curator and Educator, São Paulo. Miguel A López is a writer, researcher and Co-Director and Chief Curator of TEOR/éTica, based in Costa Rica. Miguel A. López (Sao Paolo Biennial ‘God is Queer’ Curator & TEOR/éTica Former Director) at 20-22 The Ongoing Biennial Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm Between 2015-2020 he worked at TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica, first as Chief Curator, and since 2018 as Co-director. Miguel A. López (Lima, 1983) is a writer, researcher, and curator. He has published in periodicals such as Artforum, Afterall, ramona, e-flux journal, Art in America, Art Journal, Manifesta Journal, among others. His work investigates collaborative dynamics and feminist re-articulations of art and culture in recent decades. INSITE is pleased to announce the appointment of editor-curators for the inaugural cycle of Commonplaces, a new platform to produce work with curators, artists, writers, and thinkers operating locally in different regions of the world. Miguel A. López is a writer, artist, and researcher. Mission Statement; Statement in Support of Black Lives; Learning Outcomes His work investigates collaborative dynamics and transformations in cultural engagement with politics in recent decades. His work investigates collaborative dynamics and feminist re-articulations of art and culture in recent decades. Durham, NC 27708Directions & Parking. Miguel A. López (b. His work investigates collaborative dynamics and feminist re-articulations of art and culture in recent decades. Julia Bryan-Wilson is the Doris and Clarence Malo Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley, and an adjunct curator at the Museu de arte de São Paulo. Drawings 1982–1987 (AMIL, 2015), and A Wandering Body. Smith Warehouse, Bays 4 & 5 Lopez was selected by by Franklin Sirmans , Director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, from 12 curators nominated by international art professionals in ICI’s network. Miguel A López is a writer, researcher and Co-Director and Chief Curator of TEOR/éTica, based in Costa Rica. ​Campus Box 90403 His work investigates collaborative dynamics and transformations in the understanding of and engagement with politics in Latin America in recent decades. Miguel has 6 jobs listed on their profile. Miguel A. López is a writer, researcher and co-director and chief curator of TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica where he lives and works. Miguel A. López (Lima, 1983). He is an active member of the Southern Conceptualisms Network/Red Conceptualismos del Sur (RCS) since it was founded in 2007. Photo by Daniela Morales L. Courtesy of Miguel A López. Miguel A. López (Lima, 1983). Miguel A. López (Lima, 1983) is a writer, researcher, and curator. Miguel A. Lopez, a writer, researcher, and Chief Curator of TEOR/éTica in San Jose, Costa Rica, and Co-founder or Bisagra in Lima, Perú, will receive the 2016 Independent Vision Curatorial Award. All rights reserved. Art, Art History & Visual Studies. © 2020 John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. Miguel López (Lima, Peru, 1983) Miguel López is a writer, curator and researcher. Su práctica se enfoca principalmente en los procesos colectivos, el arte experimental, arte feminista, y las temáticas de género y sexualidad atravesadas por los procesos de la memoria política. https://www.curatorialleadership.org/participants/moma-program/miguel-lopez This fourth iteration ... Read More >, Program Highlights | 2018 MoMA International Curatorial Institute Convenes Curators of Modern and Contemporary Art. Miguel A. López (Lima, 1983) He is writer, researcher, and Co-Director and Chief Curator of TEOR/éTica in San José, Costa Rica. Estructuras de aire (with Agustín Pérez Rubio) at the MALBA, Buenos Aires (2015) and the project God is Queer for the 31 Bienal de São Paulo (2014). López is co-founder of the independent art space Bisagra, active in Lima, Peru, since 2014. Leading up to the same-day exhibition opening, curator Miguel A. López (Co-Director and Chief Curator, TEOR/éTica) and artists Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge introduce Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Give Me What You Ask For in a panel discussion. In this version of horizontal dialogues, the artists participating in the 28 Art Contest Eduardo León Jimenes, Franz Caba and El Editor Cuir will talk with curator Miguel Lopez about appearances, roles, functions of bodies and the process of creating works of art that address these issues. Portrait of Miguel A López. Since the 1960s, the artist has constituted a radical perspective on the relationship between art and politics through her writing and art making. Between 2015-2020 he worked at TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica, first as Chief Curator, and since 2018 as Co-director. His work investigates collaborative dynamics and feminist re-articulations of art and culture in recent decades. Miguel A. López is a writer, researcher and curator. More Information about the series: https://sites.fhi.duke.edu/socialpracticelab/portfolio/20-22-the-ongoing... 114 South Buchanan Boulevard Miguel A. López is writer, researcher, and Co-Director and Chief Curator of TEOR/éTica in San José, Costa Rica. The Exhibitionist was founded in 2010 as a journal by curators, for curators, in which the most pertinent questions of exhibition making today would be considered and assessed. 1983) is a writer, researcher and Co-Director and Chief Curator of TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica. He has published in periodicals such as Afterall, ramona, Manifesta Journal, e-flux Journal, Art in America, Art Journal, and The Exhibitionist, among others. Miguel A. López is a writer, researcher, and Co-Director and Chief Curator of TEOR/éTica in San José, Costa Rica. Commonplaces is a new platform to produce work with curators, artists, writers, and thinkers operating locally in different regions of the world.Beginning in March 2021, Miguel A. López will be working from Lima, Peru; Gabi Ngcobo from Johannesburg, South Africa; and Andrea Torreblanca from Southern California and Baja California, US/Mexico. Miguel A. López is a writer, researcher, and chief curator of TEOR/éTica, a center for exhibitions, research, and publications on Central American and Caribbean contemporary art in San José, Costa Rica. Sergio Zevallos in the Grupo Chaclacayo, 1982–1994 (MALI, 2014). Desplazamientos educativos, sociales y artísticos en América Latina (with Renata Cervetto, MALBA and TEOR/éTica, 2016), Alianças de Corpos Vulneráveis / Alliances of Vulnerable Bodies (SESC and Videobrasil, 2015); The Obscene Death. As soon as ‘300 desenhos’ launched, Miguel A. López, a Peruvian writer and curator based in Costa Rica, realised the project could be adapted to Peru. View Miguel López-Guajardo’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. It probably came out of a conversation in 2002 or 2003 with my colleague curator Emilio Tarazona, who at that time was researching them. Patricia Belli: Works 1986-2016,” Teorética, San José. REGISTER HERE: https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEsd-uhrDgiE9dKfiHakJ_kA58R76wSVlH9, Miguel A. López (Sao Paolo Biennial 'God is Queer' Curator & TEOR/éTica Former Director)in conversation with FHI Social Practice Lab Director Pedro Lasch, Curator's bio: https://sites.fhi.duke.edu/socialpracticelab/team/miguel-a-lopez/, 20-22 The Ongoing Biennial - A Weekly Conversation Cycle with International Curators. Contrarrelatos y prácticas artísticas de oposición (Metales Pesados, 2017), The Words of Others: León Ferrari and Rhetoric in Times of War(with Ruth Estévez and Agustín Diez Fischer, REDCAT and JRP-Ringier, 2017), Agítese antes de usar. From Miguel López’s experience with politicized queer and feminist art in Costa Rica, we can understand the importance of Archives to the curator not only as a space for research, but also as a tool for political engagement. His work investigates collaborative dynamics and feminist re-articulations of art and culture in recent decades. 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