Claudia Coca
Bio
Claudia Coca
Her work prompts a critical reflection on contemporary political and cultural issues such as mestizaje, racism, nature, and gender.
Her works are part of collections including Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru; PAMM, Pérez Art Museum Miami, USA; Museo del Barro, Paraguay; MUNTREF, Museo de la Universidad Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina; MAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima; and MUCEN, Museo del Banco Central de Reserva del Perú, among others.
She has held fifteen solo exhibitions, including:
2025, La piel de mi reino, Espacio Germán Krüguer, ICPNA, Lima, and The Origin of the World, Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York. 2023, Taxonomías y clasificaciones en el reino, Galería del Paseo, Lima. 2021, Landscapes of Desire and Oblivion, Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York. 2018, No digas que no sé atrapar el viento, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2017, Cuentos Bárbaros – Otras Tempestades, Sala Miró Quesada Garland and Galería del Paseo, Lima.
In 2026, she will participate in Dendrofilia at Diablo Rosso Gallery, Panama, and in ¿De dónde vienen las voces? at Mueve Gallery, Lima. In 2025, she participated in Bienal Sur, Tarija, Bolivia, and A World Far Away, Nearby, and Invisible: Territory Narratives in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, El Espacio 23, Miami. She received the Radar Prize at Pinta Lima.
In 2024, she was invited to the InSitu Residency at Galería Metropolitana, Santiago de Chile; Exploración Botánica InSitu, La Paz, Bolivia; and the Solanas Art Experience Residency (Uruguay). She also participated in the exhibition Territorios. Arte Contemporáneo Latinoamericano en la Colección Jorge M. Pérez at CAAC, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville (Spain).
In 2023, she participated in the Santa Cruz de la Sierra Biennial (Bolivia) and Bienal Sur at the Archivo General de Indias, Seville (Spain). In 2022, she was invited to the Campo Air Residency in Pueblo Garzón (Uruguay) and took part in the Women’s Century Forum (Bolivia). She also completed a residency at MUNTREF: Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Buenos Aires (Argentina, 2018).
She received the Premio Luces 2014 for Best Retrospective (Mestiza, MAC Lima, 2014).
She lives and works in Lima.
Statement
Where does the rebel dwell?
Claudia Coca
2026
The landscape, as the territorial memory of peoples, is under constant siege; the politics of “progress” do not seek to preserve nature and its geography. The landscape is continuously attacked, along with everything that lives within it.
The image and the act of “seeing” are taken over; nature and its bodies are framed as concepts tied to the primitive and the exotic—bodies to be civilized.
To draw territories without limits is a wager on their (re)conquest.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
