List of Peruvian Artists: Parte I

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere. -- Ray Bradbury

My current research is simply a collective one. I'm collecting and noting as many Peruvian artists I can find through an online search, ArtStor database, and other databases, as well as, group exhibitions from galleries who represent exclusively Latin American artists, art museum databases with a Latin American art collection, and books/monographs/catalogues from my personal library.

By far, I have accumulated a list of fifty-or-so contemporary Peruvian artist names, which is organized by artist name, region/country, lifedates, style, influences, and active in fields on a spreadsheet. However helpful a spreadsheet would be on a blog, it would be too involved. Instead, I will note a number of key players, in my opinion, of modern and contemporary Peruvian art. In the future, I do intend on creating separate pages for each artist [refer to left columns "Contemporary" and "Modern"] as a reference library for myself and potential scholars.

Artists ("Artistas Plasticas"):

• Kukuli Velarde (Cuzco, Peru) -- PA
• Ana de Orbegoso (Lima, Peru)
• Maria Maria Acha-Kutscher (Lima, Peru) -- Spain/Mexico [Antimuseo w/ Tomas Ruiz-Rivas]
• Carolina Kecskemethy (Peru) -- Germany
• William Hernandez (Peru) -- OR
• Victor Baselly (Cajamarca, Peru) -- Germany
• Antonio Paucar (Peru) -- Germany
• Rafael Ramirez Maro (Lima, Peru) -- Germany [Director of Ramirez Maro Institute, Son of Antonio Maro]
• Sergio Zevallos (Peru) -- Germany [Grupo Chaclacayo]
• Raul Avallaneda (Peru) -- Germany [Grupo Chaclacayo]
• Hugo Lecaros (Cuzco, Peru) -- CA
• Elena Damiani (Lima, Peru) -- Lima/Copenhagen
• Graciela Arias Salazar (Ayacucho, Peru)
• Monica Luza (Lima, Peru)
• Ximena Garrido-Lecca (Lima, Peru)
• Adriana Ciudad Witzel (Lima, Peru) -- Germany
• Margarita Checa (Lima, Peru)
• Carlos Leon Xijimenez
• Jorge Marroquin-Winkelmann
• Tania Bedrinana

Modern artists:

• Cesar Calvo de Araujo (Yurimaguas/Iquitos, Peru)
• Antonio Maro (Catacaos, Peru)
• Victor Delfin (Lobitos, Peru)
• Andres Molina (Peru)

Collectives:

• Grupo Chaclacayo (1983-1994)
• Colectivo SHAPSHICO
• Colectivo MAKIS