Ana María Sánchez Lesmes

Ana María Sánchez Lesmes is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History of Art & Architecture at Boston University. Her dissertation explores the professionalization of curatorial practice in Colombia during the 1970s and 1980s through the lens of South–South collaborations, focusing on the partnership between Colombian curator Eduardo Serrano and Australian curator John Stringer. Her research contributes to a growing historiography of curatorial networks in Latin America and the Global South that challenge dominant Euro–U.S. narratives of curatorial history.

Ana María is also a professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, where she teaches in the Master’s Program in Museology and Heritage Management. A Fulbright– MinCiencias Scholar (2021 cohort), she has held fellowships from the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University. In Colombia, she has worked with institutions such as the Instituto Distrital de Patrimonio Cultural (IDPC), the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, and the Museo Nacional de Colombia, developing curatorial, educational, and heritage management projects. Her broader research interests include curatorial historiography, South–South curatorial networks, decolonial museology, exhibition histories, and modern and contemporary Latin American art. 

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