Jerónimo was the C-MAP (Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives) Fellow for Latin America at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He is a PhD candidate in Spanish and Latin American Literatures and Visual Studies at Harvard University. He holds a B.A. in Law and Literature, an M.A. in Literature and Modern and Contemporary Art History and Theory from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, and an M.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University.
His research cultivates dialogues between Contemporary Latin American Visual Arts and Literatures. His work produces projects deeply rooted in pertinent academic research that encourage conversations between both scholarly and non-scholarly audiences, and that present artistic practices as communal experiences rather than as inaccessible objects. He has worked as an editor, curator, researcher and teacher.
Throughout 2016, the C-MAP Latin America Group focused on the study and research of Colombian modern and contemporary artistic practices. The group held more than twenty meetings where scholars, artists, and curators were invited to present their work and talk about the historical, political, and social conditions that have shaped modern and contemporary art scene…
In 2016, The Museum of Modern Art received a major gift from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, which added more than 100 works of modern art by major artists from Latin America to the Museum’s collection and established the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America.
The Museum of Modern Art has just received what is arguably one of the most transformative donations in its history: more than one hundred modern works produced by thirty-seven Latin American masters, which have entered the collection through the generosity of the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. This theme was developed to share information about…
During the last week of September, members of the C-MAP Latin America group traveled to Chile. This trip was part of a research focus on that country which, over the past year, has brought a number of artists, scholars, critics and curators to MoMA–all this in an effort to better understand the complexities of the…
