Miguel A. López is a Peruvian writer and researcher. His work investigates collaborative dynamics and transformations in the understanding of and engagement with Latin American politics, and feminist and queer re-articulations of art and culture in recent decades.
He is co-curator of the 21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil (2019), and contributed with the curatorial section God is Queer for the 31th Bienal de São Paulo (2014). He curated several historical exhibitions addressing intersections of art, feminism and politics in the Americas, such as Cecilia Vicuña, a retrospective exhibition at Witte de With, Rotterdam (2019), Virginia Pérez-Ratton. Central America: Desiring a Place (with Maria P. Malavasi) at MUAC, Mexico City (2019-2020), Social Energies/Vital Forces. Natalia Iguiñiz: Art, Activism, Feminism (1994-2018) at the ICPNA, Lima (2018), Balance and Collapse: Patricia Belli, Works 1986-2016 in TEOR/éTica, San José, and Fundación Ortiz Gurdian, Managua (2016-2017) and Teresa Burga: Structures of Air (with Agustín Pérez Rubio) at MALBA, Buenos Aires (2015) among others. He was part of curatorial team for the exhibition Losing the Human Form. A Seismic Image of the 1980s in Latin America, curated by Red Conceptualismos del Sur at the Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid (2012-2013).
López is author of Ficciones disidentes en la tierra de la misoginia [Dissident Fictions in the Land of Misogyny] (Pesopluma, 2019), and Robar la historia. Contrarrelatos y prácticas artísticas de oposición (Metales Pesados, 2017). He co-edited book such as The Words of Others: León Ferrari and Rhetoric in Times of War (together with Ruth Estévez and Agustín Diez Fischer, REDCAT and JRP-Ringier, 2017), Agítese antes de usar. Desplazamientos artísticos, sociales y educativos en América Latina (with Renata Cervetto, MALBA and TEOR/éTica, 2016), among others. His texts have been published in journals such as Afterall, Artforum, E-flux Journal, ramona, Art in America, Art Journal, and Manifesta Journal, among others.
Since 2012 he is member of the curatorial advisory team for the Contemporary Art Acquisition Committee of Lima Art Museum (MALI), Peru. In 2016 he received the Independent Vision Curatorial Award, given every two years by Independent Curators International, New York.