Aimé Iglesias Lukin

Aimé Iglesias Lukin is the Director and Chief Curator of Art at Americas Society in New York. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, she lives in New York since 2011. Since joining the organization in 2019, she has led a program of exhibitions, publications, and programs aiming to rethink the Americas beyond political cartographies and to highlight the value of the local among the global. Her two-part exhibition and book “This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York 1965–1975,” was based on her Ph.D. dissertation at Rutgers University. She also organized the exhibition “El Dorado: Myths of Golds”, and solo shows on Bispo do Rosario, Sylvia Palacios Whitman, Geles Cabrera, Terence Gower, and Feliciano Centurión. She completed her M.A. at The Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and her undergraduate studies in art history at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She curated exhibitions independently in museums and cultural centers and previously worked in the Modern and Contemporary Art Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, and Fundación Proa in Buenos Aires.