Luis Pérez-Oramas

The Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art for the Department of Drawing and Prints, The Museum of Modern Art

Luis Pérez-Oramas was appointed The Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art for the Department of Drawing at The Museum of Modern Art. He received his PhD in art history from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, in 1994. He has taught art history at the Université de Haute Bretagne-Rennes 2, Rennes; Ecole Régionale Superieure des Beaux Arts de Nantes; and the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Artes Plásticas Armando Reverón, Caracas. Prior to joining MoMA, he was the Curator of the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Caracas. Among the exhibitions Pérez-Oramas has organized during his tenure at MoMA are: Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings (2006); New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930–2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions (2007); Latin American and Caribbean Art: Selections from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art (2008), for The New York State Museum, Albany; and Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel (2009), a traveling exhibition with venues at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2009–10) and Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre (2010). He has also published six books based on his poetry, including Prisionero del Aire (2008).

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