Florencia Portocarrero

Florencia Portocarrero (Lima, 1981) is a curator, researcher, and writer whose work focuses on rewriting art history from a feminist perspective and challenging hegemonic forms of knowledge. Between 2008 and 2010, she completed a master’s degree in Theoretical Studies in Psychoanalysis at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). From 2012 to 2013, she participated in the de Appel Curatorial Programme in Amsterdam, and in 2015 she earned a second master’s degree in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London.

She has participated in numerous international conferences, and her writings on art and culture appear regularly in specialized publications such as Artforum, Artishock, Atlántica Journal, and Terremoto. In 2017–2018, she received the Curating Connections scholarship, awarded by the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program and the KfW Stiftung.

In Lima, she co-founded and co-directed the independent art space Bisagra (2014–2022) and is currently a member of la Colección Cooperativa (CCP). Portocarrero served as Curator of the Public Program at Proyecto AMIL (2015–2019), was an advisor to the Acquisitions Committee of the Museo de Arte de Lima – MALI (2018–2020), and currently lectures in the MA in Art History and Curatorial Studies at PUCP. She is now pursuing a PhD in History at PUCP, where she is researching the work of Peruvian filmmaker Nora de Izcue and preparing the forthcoming retrospective of Sandra Gamarra at MALI. She is also co-editor of Unmaking to Make: Art as Decolonizing Practice in Latin America, Future, Past and Present, a volume to be published by UCL Press (Modern Americas series) in 2026.