Artist Tribute Curator
In the framework of the celebrations being held for the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jorge Eduardo Eielson (Lima, 1924 - Milan, Italy, 2006), Pinta PArC will have a special section entitled Artist Tribute dedicated to the artist and curated by Sharon Lerner. The artistic proposal will feature works from public and private collections from the 1980s and will highlight the B-side of the artist's production.
Sharon Lerner
She was Curator of Contemporary Art at MALI between 2012 and 2019 and Chief Curator at the same institution between June and December 2021. She received her M.A. in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts in San Francisco (2010). In 2010 she was awarded the 101 Curatorial Fellowship from the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and in parallel she worked as a researcher for the Kadist Art Foundation in San Francisco, USA. She has edited the book Arte contemporáneo. Colección Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI, 2013), as well as catalogs on the work of Armando Andrade Tudela, Fernando Bedoya, Johanna Hamann, Alejandro Alayza, Emilio Rodríguez Larraín and Jorge Eielson. In 2015 she was part of the curatorial team of the 3rd Medellin Encounter (MED15). Between 2015-2017 she was part of the curatorial team for the project Memories of Underdevelopment, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, MALI and Museo Jumex in Mexico, as part of the PST: LA/LA initiative of the Getty Foundation. In 2019 she was in charge of the Perú País Invitado section at ARCO Madrid. Since January 2022 she has been director of MALI - Museo de Arte de Lima.
