Miguel A. López is a writer and curator. In his practice, he focuses on the role of art in politics and public life, collective work and collaborative dynamics, and queer and feminist rewritings of history. He is a co-curator for the 2024 edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art. From 2015 to 2020, he worked as Chief Curator, and later Co-director at TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica. Previously, López was curator of Lugar a Dudas, Colombia, in 2012-2013. In 2014, he curated the section Deus é bicha (God is Queer) and the presentation of Giuseppe Campuzano’s Transvestite Museum for the 31st Bienal de São Paulo.
In 2019, he curated the retrospective exhibition Cecilia Vicuña: Seehearing the Enlightened Failure at the Witte de With (now Kunstinstituut Melly), Rotterdam, which traveled to Mexico City, Madrid, and Bogota. Between 2023 and 2024, a second retrospective Cecilia Vicuña. Dreaming Water, curated by López, is being presented at the Fine Art Museum (MNBA) in Chile, MALBA in Argentina, and Pinacoteca de São Paulo in Brazil. Other recent curatorial projects include Sila Chanto & Belkis Ramírez: Aquí me quedo / Here I Stay en el ICA-VCU, Richmond (2022), Hard to Swallow. Anti-Patriarchal Poetics and New Scene in the Nineties at ICPNA, Lima (2021), and And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers? at the Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2021).
He is the editor and author of more than twenty books on issues of art, sexuality, social justice, cultural infrastructure, and political memory, including INSITE Journal 6: Common Thread (2023), And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers? Aesthetic Responses to Extraction, Accumulation, and Dispossession (2022), Virginia Pérez-Ratton. Central America: Desiring a Place (2019), Ficciones disidentes en la tierra de la misoginia (2019), Patricia Belli. Balance and Collapse (2018), Agítese antes de usar. Desplazamientos educativos, sociales y artísticos en América Latina (2017), The Words of Others: León Ferrari and Rhetoric in Times of War (2017), Caderno Sesc Videobrasil 11. Alianças de Corpos Vulneráveis (2016), Teresa Burga. Structures of Air (2015), and Sergio Zevallos. The Obscene Death. Drawings 1982-1987 (2015).
He was a recipient of the ICI's 2016 Independent Vision Curatorial Award. He lives and works in Toronto.
