Coordinated by Miguel A. López
The Pinta Lima 2026 FORO is a reflective platform dedicated to exploring new perspectives within the Latin American art ecosystem. A diverse group of invited guests and specialists will engage in conversations addressing the challenges and opportunities of the contemporary art field in Latin America. The FORO aims to move beyond traditional debates, offering a fresh and critical outlook on the intersection of contemporary art, curatorial practices, collecting, and other pressing topics shaping today’s artistic landscape.
Photo: Daniela Morales L.
Miguel A. López (Lima, 1983) is a writer and currently Chief Curator of Museo Universitario del Chopo in Mexico City. He was a co-curator for the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art. From 2015 to 2020, he worked as Chief Curator, and later Co-director at TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica. In 2019, he curated the retrospective exhibition Cecilia Vicuña: Seehearing the Enlightened Failure at the Witte de With (now Kunstinstituut Melly), Rotterdam, which traveled to Mexico City, Madrid, and Bogota. Between 2023 and 2024, a second retrospective Cecilia Vicuña. Dreaming Water, curated by López, was presented at the Fine Art Museum (MNBA) in Chile, MALBA in Argentina, and Pinacoteca de São Paulo in Brazil. Recent curatorial projects include Sila Chanto & Belkis Ramírez: Aquí me quedo / Here I Stay en el ICA-VCU, Richmond (2022), Hard to Swallow. Anti-Patriarchal Poetics and New Scene in the Nineties at ICPNA, Lima (2021), and And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers? at the Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2021).
