Miguel A. López

Born in Lima in 1983
Curator at TEOR/éTica and Lado V en San José, Costa Rica

Writer, researcher, and curator. His work investigates collaborative dynamics and transformations in the understanding of and engagement with politics in Latin America in recent decades. His work also focuses on queer re-articulations of history from a Southern perspective. He has published in periodicals such as Afterall, ramona, Manifesta Journal, e-flux Journal, Art in America, ArtNexus, Art Journal, and The Exhibitionist, among others.

Between 2012 and 2013 he has been invited as a curator of Lugar a Dudas in Cali, Colombia. He is co-founder of the independent art space Bisagra, active in Lima, Peru, since 2014.

Some publications :

– El dedo en la llaga / To Hit a Raw Nerve. Jaime Higa, 1982 – 2015 (ICPNA, 2016)
– Caderno Sesc_Videobrasil 11: Alianças de Corpos Vulneráveis (Videobrasil, 2015)
– Dos monografías sobre la estética queer de Sergio Zevallos, The obscene death. Sergio Zevallos. Drawings 1982 – 1987 (AMIL, 2015) y A wandering body. Sergio Zevallos in the Grupo Chaclacayo, 1982 – 1994 (MALI, 2014).

Some exhibitions :

– 2015 en TEOR/éTica, San José (2016)
– Teresa Burga. Estructuras de aire (junto con Agustín Pérez Rubio) en MALBA, Buenos Aires (2015)
– “Utopian Pulse. Flares in the darkroom” en Secession, Viena (2014)
– “Dios es marica” para la 31 Bienal de Sao Paulo (2014)
– “Un cuerpo ambulante. Sergio Zevallos en el Grupo Chaclacayo (1982-1994)” en el Museo de Arte de Lima y Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (2013-2014)
– “Pulso Alterado. Intensidades en la colección del MUAC y sus colecciones asociadas” (con Sol Henaro) en el MUAC-UNAM, México D.F (2013)
– “Perder la Forma Humana. Una imagen sísmica de los años 80 en América Latina” (con la Red Conceptualismos del Sur) en el Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid (2012)