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Behind the Rise of Contemporary Peruvian Art

Five artists weigh in on the forces pushing talent with ties to Peru into the international spotlight and whether they think that momentum will last.

In January, Antonio Paucar won the Artes Mundi Prize; his work was shown across multiple venues in Wales. That same month, Andrea Canepa wrapped Madrid’s Palacio de Cristal, part of the Reina Sofía Museum, with an installation that will remain in place through 2026. In February, Grimanesa Amorós unveiled two large-scale commissions—one at the Los Angeles Philharmonic and another in New York’s Wall Street district—while Ximena Garrido-Lecca opened a major solo exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio. And in March, Sandra Gamarra Heshiki, who represented Spain at the last Venice Biennale, opened her first retrospective at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, directed by Adriano Pedrosa.

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None of them are new to the international scene, but having so many awards, exhibitions and institutional projects involving Peruvian contemporary art and artists happening in such a short time is striking and points to growing visibility for Peruvian talent and Andean cosmologies. Based on indigenous knowledge and ancestral worldviews, these perspectives highlight the relationship between environment, territory and colonial memory through contemporary artistic practices.

Many contemporary Peruvian artists live and work abroad, in Berlin, New York, Madrid or Mexico City, while maintaining strong ties to Lima and other parts of Peru. Some also move between Peru and these international contexts. Born in Huancayo, Paucar developed his........

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