Untitled Art Miami Beach guest curator Miguel A. López in conversation with Moving Feeling artists Jim Denomie (Bockley Gallery) and Sylvia Fernandez (Galería del Paseo)
Miguel A. López is a writer, researcher, and curator. Between 2015 and 2020, he worked at TEOR/éTica, in Costa Rica, first as chief curator and, from 2018, as co-director and chief curator. Recent curatorial projects include: ‘and if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?’ at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2021); ‘Cecilia Vicuña, a Retrospective Exhibition’ at Witte de With, Rotterdam (2019) and MUAC-UNAM, Mexico City (2020); co-curated ‘Virginia Pérez-Ratton. Central America: Desiring a Place’ at MUAC, Mexico City, (2019); ‘Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Give Me What You Ask For’ at the Americas Society, New York (2019); and ‘Social Energies/Vital Forces. Natalia Iguiñiz: Art, Activism, Feminism (1994–2018)’ at ICPNA, Lima (2018njj). Recent books include: Ficciones disidentes en la tierra de la misoginia (Dissident Fictions in the Land of Misogyny) (2019), and Robar la historia. Contrarrelatos y prácticas artísticas de oposición (Stealing History: Counter-narratives and Oppositional Art Practices (2017). His writing has appeared in Afterall, Artforum, Art in America, e-flux journal, and Manifesta Journal, among others. López is also a co-founder of the independent art space Bisagra, active in Peru since 2014.
