Visual artist, feminist activist, and social anthropologist. PhD from the Department of Social Anthropology and Ethnology at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris (EHESS), Master’s degree in Critical Research, Curating and Cybermedia from the University of Art and Design of Geneva (HEAD), and Bachelor’s degree with a major in Painting from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in Lima.
The Peruvian artist and scholar has promoted both theoretical and practical research that interrelates inquiry, critique, art, and gender studies to contribute to social reconstruction and political transformation. Her interdisciplinary visual work has been exhibited in more than 12 solo shows and numerous group exhibitions in Museums, Cultural Centers, and Art Galleries, such as the Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid), Museum of Contemporary Art (Mexico), Centro Cultural La Moneda (Chile), San Marcos Museum of Art (Peru), and the Museum of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion (Peru). In this context, she has been part of various artistic collectives both in the Americas and Europe. Likewise, her written and visual work has been published in books and journals within the artistic and academic fields at an international level.
Since 2010, her research and artistic practice have focused on the social issues of public health and women’s rights in Peru, as well as the role of art in transitional justice. Along these lines, she is the author-editor of several investigations on the subject, such as the book Memorias del caso peruano de esterilización forzada [Memories of the Peruvian Case of Forced Sterilization], published by the Editorial Fund of the National Library of Peru (2014). She has been an associate researcher at the French Institute of Andean Studies, IFEA (2013–2017), founder of the artivist project Alfombra Roja (2013–2024), and co-founder of the collective Ni Una Menos Perú: Tocan a Una Tocan a Todas (2016–2019). She is currently coordinator of the research project Ikumi (2022–2024) and Wiphalas por la Memoria (2023–2024).
She has also served as vice-president of the Federation of Kugler Artists in Geneva (2010–2011), academic coordinator of the School of Art and Design Studies (PUCP), coordinator of the Editorial Area of Art and Design (PUCP), and president of the Peru Section of the Latin American Studies Association – LASA (2019–2021). She is currently coordinator of the Follow-up Group on Reparations for Forced Sterilizations – GREF (2022–2025).
As founder and director of the project INCA. Investigación Nacional Crítica y Arte (2013–2016), she received the “Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development” from the Netherlands. Likewise, with the project SOI. Centro de Investigación y Taller Gráfico Shipibo-Conibo (2015), she received the “Arts & Culture Fellowship” from the Council and Tsadik Foundation of France-Switzerland, and in 2017 she won support from Infoartes of the Ministry of Culture. That same year she received the Javier Pérez de Cuéllar Human Rights Award, granted by the French Embassy in Peru, for the collective work of Ni Una Menos Perú: Tocan a Una Tocan a Todas. In 2022 she received the PUCP Research Award; in 2023 she obtained support from the CAP-PUCP competition for the project IKUMI and from the Ford Foundation for the project Wiphalas por la Memoria. In 2024 she received support from the FAU for the project Alfombra Roja.
She is currently a professor in the Painting Program, editorial director of CROMA Journal – PUCP, and member of the Council of the Department of Art and Design at PUCP and member of the "Red Conceptualismos del Sur". She lives in Lima and works across different regions of the country as well as in Europe.