Jorge Lopera is an art historian and independent curator. His work explores the intersections of Latin American art, intellectual history, and the production of regional visual thought, with a particular focus on processes of epistemic decolonization through the construction of historiographic narratives grounded in their own terms and vocabularies. He holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Since 2011, he has been engaged in research, curatorial, and pedagogical practices related to contemporary art in Latin America.
His recent projects include Non-Objectualisms: Toward an Independent Visual Thought (Museum of Modern Art of Medellín, 2024; Museo Universitario del Chopo, 2026) and Latin America: Art and Critical Citizenship (1960–2025), funded by Grupo Sura and co-authored with Pablo Santamaría. With Melissa Aguilar, Lopera was the curator of the exhibition Gestural Deployments: Adolfo Bernal, Jorge Ortiz, María Teresa Cano, which received the 8th National Award for Historical Curatorship granted by the Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation (Colombia).
He has been the recipient of several research grants, including the Visual Arts Research Grant from the Ministry of Culture of Colombia (2016), the Curatorial Research Grant from the City of Medellín (2018), and the Research Grant from Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo (2021). He organized the international symposium "Art Criticism in Latin America: Agents, Networks, and Theories," held jointly by UNAM’s Institute of Aesthetic Research and the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City. He also served as researcher and coordinator of the project "Art Criticism as a Producer of Theory in Latin America, 1959–1989," directed by Dr. Rita Eder at UNAM’s Institute of Aesthetic Research.
