Sandra Gamarra Heshiki

Lima, Peru, 1972.
Lives and works in Madrid, Spain.

Sandra Gamarra Heshiki’s work employs the mechanisms of the art world – production processes, exhibition, dissemination, and commercialization – to reflect upon reality. For her, fiction, translation, and selection are essential ingredients of the reality we live in, but on a larger scale, these dissolve into spectacle, becoming imperceptible. Her work satirizes these procedures by making them visible in order to question our involvement in them. Her artwork suggests that one of the ways to respond and confront an overwhelming reality is to use its own mechanisms of “creation,” engaging with values such as novelty, authorship, originality, and uniqueness.

Based on appropriation, her work acts as a mirror that shifts exhibition formats, alters the circulation of images, and subverts the ownership of culture as well as the narrative between art and the viewer. Within this realm of investigation, her Peruvian heritage adds a syncretic layer where pre-Columbian, colonial, and Western cultures converge. In 2002, due to the absence of an institutional presence in the field of contemporary arts, she created LiMac (Lima Contemporary Art Museum), a fictitious museum established through a logo on merchandise items (pencils, erasers, cups, bags).

Lima, Peru, 1972. Lives and works in Madrid, Spain.

EDUCATION

2003

Doctorate, Facultad de Arte de Cuenca, Cuenca, Spain

1990-1997

BA in Fine Arts, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lima, Peru

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025

Pinacoteca Migrante (curated by Augustin Perez Rubio), Biblioteca Nacional de Espana, Madrid, Spain

2024

Pinacoteca Migrante, Spanish Pavilion, 60th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2023

El mundo al reves, Livia Benavides – 80m2, Peru

2022

En vias de desarrollo, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Buen Gobierno (curated by Agustin Perez Rubio), CGAC Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Orden de los Factores (curated by Pamela Desjardins), Museo Amparo, Mexico

2021

Produccion/Reproduccion. MALI, Lima, Peru

Buen Gobierno (curated by Agustin Perez Rubio), Sala Alcala, Madrid, Spain

2020

Bodegon-Vitrina-Museo-Vitrina-Bodegon, 80m2 Livia Benavides, Lima, Peru

2018

Esquinas. Paredes. Suelos (curated by Moritz Kung), Fundacion Rac, Pontevedra, Spain

Rojo Indio, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain

2017

Landscape in Quotation Marks, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Hoja de Sala, Koob Gallery en Espacio Multiplos, Barcelona, Spain

2016

Cielo Raso, SITU #5 (curated by Bruno de Almeida), Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2015

Paisaje entre comillas (Landscape in Quotation Marks), Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima, Peru

2014

La Quadrature du Cercle, Studio Sandra Recio, Geneva, Switzerland

Grey Flag Project (commission), Artium Museum, Vitoria, Spain

What Made us Modern / Crisp Images in a Humid Environment, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2013

Blanca, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain; Palacio Molina, Cartagena, Spain

2012

Veronica, Carmen Araujo Arte, Caracas, Venezuela

You are Here, ASA Factory, European Capital of Culture, Guimaraes, Portugal

Self-Portrait / Natural History, Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima, Peru

2011

Mantles, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil

At the Same Time, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA

2010

In Order of Appeareance, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain

They are to see you better, Black Pilar, Madrid, Spain

2009

Natural Selection, Galeria OMR, Mexico D.F, Mexico

The Guest, Rotwand, Zurich, Switzerland

The Ilusion of Utility, Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima, Peru

2008

Miracles, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2007

De la A a la K, Coleccion Cesar Cervantes, Aldaba Arte, Mexico City, Mexico

2006

New Aquisitions, Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima, Peru

Cabinet, Juana de Aizpuru Gallery, Madrid, Spain

Brazilian Aquisitions, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2004

Recent Works, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain

2003

Visita Guiada, Casa de America, Madrid, Spain

Class by Correspondance, Galeria Wu Ediciones, Lima, Peru

2002

Souvenir, Galeria Wu Ediciones, Lima, Peru

2001

Living Room, Sala Luis Miro Quesada Garland, Lima, Peru

2000

Recent Works, Galeria Wu Ediciones, Lima, Peru

Kitchen (with Ivan Esquivel), Centro Cultural Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru

1999

La casa: Espacios Internos, with Rocio Gomez, Galeria Obsidiana, Lima, Peru

1998

Inventario, Galeria Praxis, Lima, Peru

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

Ambient Threads (curated by Luis Pinto Nunes), Kubikgallery + Galeria Leme at Espaco Museologico Museu do Arroz, Comporta, Portugal

Whispers of the Self, Prometeo Gallery, Milan, Italy

2024

XVI Bienal de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador

Poli/Grafica de Puerto Rico: America Latina y el Caribe – Bajo Presion/Under Pressure, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, Porto Rico

2023

Quica manana (curated by Ferran Barenblit), XVI Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador

Mi ropa, la de otros, la de muchos (curated by Sergio Parra and Antonio Echeverria). Il Posto, Chile

El Dorado. Un territorio (curated by Adriana Rosenberg, Aime Iglesias Lukin and Ramiro Martinez), Fundacion Proa, Argentina

Brasil futuro: as formas da democracia (curadoria de Marcio Tavares, Lilia Schwarcz e Paulo Vieira), Museu Nacional da Republica, Casa das 11 Janelas, Museu Solar Ferrao, Brasilia, Para, Bahia, Brazil

2022

Flores y frutos, Sala Banco de Espana, Madrid, Spain

Under Construction, Hamburger Bahnhof, Germany

2021

Vasos Comunicantes. Coleccion 1881-2021, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Espanha

Produccion/Reproduccion. MALI, Lima, Peru

Imagenes Desde el Retrovisor, CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain

Por um sopro de furia e esperanca (curated by Galciani Neves and Natalie Unterstell), MuBE, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Imaginarios Contemporaneos, MALI, Peru

2020

11th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany

Mecaro. Amazonia in the Petitgas Collection, MO.CO, Montpellier, France

Artistas en la Coleccion de Arte de Banco Sabadell, SabadellHerrero, Oviedo, Spain

2019

Time for Change: Art and Social Unrest in the Jorge M. Perez Collection, El Espacio 23, Miami, USA

Feche os Olhos e Veja (curated by Galciani Neve), Almeida e Dale Galeria de Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Menu del dia, Galeria 80m2 Livia Benavides, Lima, Peru

Territorios indefinidos. Perspectivas sobre el legado colonial (curated by Hiuwai Chu), Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona – MACBA, Barcelona, Spain

Amazonias (curated by Gredna Landolt and Sharon Lerner), Matadero, Madrid, Spain

En orden de Aparicion (curated by Estrella de Diego and Luiz Perez-Oramas), Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain

SinCronicas (curated by Max Hernandez Calvo), El Instante Fundacion, Madrid, Spain

2018

Es o no es (curated by Alexandra Baures), Sala de Armas de la Ciudadela, Pamplona, Spain

Todos los tonos de la rabia (curated by Carolina Bustamante Gutierrez and Francisco Godoy Vega), MUSAC, Leon, Spain

Dialogue de l’ombre double (curated by Tiago de Abreu Pinto and Francesco Giaveri), Centro de Arte de Alcobendasm, Madrid, Spain

Scenes: action and representation, Pavillion Mixtos de Cuidadela, Pamplona, Spain

#iff2018, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil

ESTADOS EN CRISIS. Ejerciendo ciudadania desde el arte, MAC Lima, Lima Peru

Todos los tonos de la rabia, MUSAC, Leon, Spain

2017

Juana de Aizupuru. Extracto de una coleccion, Patio Herreriano, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Espanol, Madrid, Spain

Raise the curtain (curated by Antoine Henry Jonqueres), LiMac at Galeria Moises Perez de Albeniz, Madrid, Spain

One thousand roaring beasts. Exhibition dispositifs for a critical modernity, CAAC Centro Andaluz Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain

Legado y divergencia: 78 anos de Artes de la PUCP, Sala German Kruger ICPNA, Lima, Peru

Arte en el cambio del siglo (curated by Benjamin Weil), Centro Botin, Santander, Spain

Ilumina nuestra frontera, Palacio Consistorial, Cartagena, Spain

Doublethink Double vision (curated by Alistair Hicks), Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

El sol lila. Constelaciones poeticas de Luis Hernandez. Casa de la literatura Peruana, Lima, Peru

Acordo de confianca, Biblioteca Mario de Andrade, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Salto de pagina, Calcografia Nacional, Madrid, Spain

Pedra no Ceu: Arte e Arquitetura de Paulo Mendes da Rocha (curated by Caue Alves and Guilherme Wisnik), MuBE – Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, Sao Paulo, Brasil

Mujeres Artistas en la CAC, Museo Patio Herreriano, Madrid, Spain

La idea en un signo. Coleccion Sanchez-Ubiria (curated by Sergio Rubira), Centro de Arte Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain

Proxima Parada. Artistas Peruanos en la coleccion Hochschild (curated by Octavio Zaya), Sala Alcala 31, Madrid, Spain

The Middle Line (curated by Antoine Henry Jonqueres), LiMac, Madrid, Spain

Seleccion natural – This is the Cover of the Book (curated by Moritz Kung), Centro Cultural – Libreria Blanquerna, Madrid, Spain

2016

Juan Acha – Reflexiones contemporaneas Latinoamericanas, MAC-Lima, Peru

3rd Montevideu Biennial, Espejo Enterrado, Montevideu, Uruguay

Vacio Museal. Medio Siglo De Museotopias Peruanas (1966-2016), Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Lima, Lima, Peru

Caleidoscopio y Rompecabezas. Latinoamerica en la Coleccion MUSAC, CAAM – Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

A Cor do Brasil (curated by Paulo Herkenhoff, Marcelo Campos and Clarissa Diniz), MAR – Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Danger. Expansion y corte, (curated by Jorge Villacorta), Coleccion Hochschild, UTEC – Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia, Lima Peru

Permit yourself… (curated by Moritz Kung), Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain

Arte Con-Texto, curadoria de Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig e Oscar Roldan Alzate, Museo de la Universidad de Antioquia y de la Universidad Nacional de Medellin, Colombia

Lembre-se de lembrar, (curated by Alexia Tala), Carbono Galeria, Sao Paulo, Brazil

The Way Things Go (curated by Patrick Hamilton & The 9.99), The 9.99, Guatemala City, Guatemala

Museo do Louvre – Pau Brazyl, ed. Louvre, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2015

Visita guiada: artista, museo, espectador, MUSAC, Leon, Spain

Don’t Shoot the Painter / Paintings from UBS Art Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Milan, Italy

Rio Setecentista, quando o Rio virou capital, MAR – Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

unplace exhibition – networked art: places-between-places, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

MAR – Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2014

Taipa-Tapume, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Contra/cto, Galeria 3+1, Lisbon, Portugal

30 anos de arte contemporaneo, Sala Miro Quesada, Lima, Peru

Horror Vacui, Espacio Liquido, Gijon, Spain

Momento Contemporaneo (curated by Paulo Venancio Filho), Figueiredo Ferraz Institute, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil

La Historia La Escriben los Vencedores, OTR, espacio de arte, Madrid, Spain

The Marvelous Real, Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Art from the MUSAC Collection, MOT, Tokyo, Japan

2013

Siluetas y retratos de mujer, Galeria Pepe Cobo, Lima, Peru

Suspicious Minds, Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Identity, A Window in Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Coleccion los Bragales, Biblioteca central y archivo historico de Cantabria, Santander, Spain

De Madonna a Madonna, Centro de Arte Domus Artium, Vigo, Spain

On Painting, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Spain

2012

Coleccion: El crimen fundacional, MUCA ROMA, Mexico D.F, Mexico

Setting the scene, Tate Modern, London, England

Y que si la democracia ocurre?, Galeria 80 m2, Lima, Peru

Ensayos Autonomos, Espacio OTR, Madrid, Spain

Seleccion del archivo Restos Impresos, LiMAC, Madrid, Spain

Transicao, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brasil

2011

An Other Pace, Lelong Galerie, New York, USA

O Colecionador de Sonhos, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil

Kreemart, Haunch of Venison, New York, USA

Proyecto Informe Pais, Centro Gabriela Mistral, Santiago de Chile, Chile

XI Bienal de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador

El fin de la historia…y el retorno de la pintura de historia, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain; Musem voor Moderne Kunst ARnhem (MMKA), Arnhem, Netherlands

Arte al paso, Collecion Contemporanea del Museo Arte de Lima, Estacao Pinacoteca, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Fiction and Reality, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia

The Draughtsman’s Contract, Estudio Carlos Garaicoa, Madrid, Spain.

29th Bienal Internacional de Sao Paulo’s Touring Program, Fundacao Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Palacio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Kunst und Institution, Kunstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria

2010

There is Always a Cup of Sea to Sail in, 29a Bienal Internacional de Sao Paulo, Fundacao Bienal, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Modelos para Armar, Pensar Latinoamerica desde La Coleccion Del Muasc, Musac Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Spain

Issued, Rendez View, Darsa Comfort, Zurich, Switzerland

2009

Globalizados, Sala de Exposiciones de la Diputacion de Huesca, Huesca, Spain

Des-Habitable, Espacio OTR, Madrid, Spain

31st Panorama da Arte Brasileira, Museu de arte Moderna de Sao Paulo- MAM, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Micromuseo: Lo impuro y lo contaminado III, Trienal de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile

Mundus Novus, IILA Pavillion, 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Die Tropics, National gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

Lecturas transversals de la coleccion fundacion Marcelo Botin, Santander, Spain

2008

Visiones del arte contemporaneo en el Peru, Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima, Peru

Portrait 2, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil

A Proposito del Espacio, OTR espacio de arte, Madrid, Spain

Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Rum: The Art of Appropriation no MoMA, New York, EUA

Die Tropics, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Reliquias e Ruinas, SESC, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Located Work Project, coordinated by Joseph Kosuth, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain

2007

Reliquias e Ruinas, Goethe-Institut, Espaco Cultural Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Tropicos, Goethe-Institut, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasilia, Brazil

Existencias – Coleccion MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Leon, Spain

10o00 S / 76o00 W, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Destino Futuro, Sala de Exposiciones del Jardin Botanico, Madrid, Spain

2006

TINTA, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Homenaje, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain

Urbe y Arte, Museo de la Nacion, Lima, Peru

2005

Exposicao Anden 12: Heteronimos, Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain

Emergencias, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Leon, Spain

Still Life, Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima, Peru

Itinararios, Fundacion Marcelino Botin, Santander, Spain

2004

NeoRetratos, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain

Exposiciones Itinerantes Generacion 2004, Caja Madrid, Spain

Cubo Blanco, Sala Luis Miroquesada Garland, Lima, Peru

2003

Proyecto Boda, MEIAC, Baldajoz, Spain

2002

Gracias por venir, La Fabrica de Pan, Madrid, Spain

Arte Joven Latinoamericano, Universidade Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2001

Unzip, Galeria John Harriman, Lima, Peru

Dibujo sobre Tela, Galeria Forum, Lima, Peru

Presencia de la Mujer en el Arte Peruano, Galeria de Arte de la Embajada del Peru, Washington D.C., USA

Co-razon, Centro Cultural de Espana, Lima, Peru

Envio Peruano para la Bienal de Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2000

Winsor & Newton Worldwide Millennium Painting Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, England, United Nations, New York, USA, World Trade Center, Stockholm, Sweden

Noche de Arte, Residencia de la Embajada de EEUU, Lima, Peru

C.C. Convenio Andres Bello, Nexo: Jovenes Artistas de America Latina y Espana, Bogota, Colombia

Dibujo sobre Tela, Galeria Forum, Lima, Peru

1999

Realidad, Centro Cultural Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru

Dibujo sobre Tela, Galeria Forum, Lima, Peru

Laberinto de la Choledad: Lima Ciudad Abierta, Casona de San Marcos, Lima, Peru

1998

Arte Praxis 98, Galeria Praxis, Lima, Peru

Los Nuevos Angeles, Galeria 2V’s, Lima, Peru

Pintura Peruana Contemporanea, Sala de Arte Petro Peru, Lima, Peru

COMMISSIONS

2014

Grey Flag Project, Museu Artium, Vitoria, Espanha

AWARDS

2006

VI Bienal Internacional de Artes Plasticas Ciudad de Alcorcon Prize, Madrid, Spain

2004

Marcelino Botin, Beca de Proyectos, Santander, Spain

Concurso Generacion 2004, Seleccion, Caja Madrid, Spain

2003

MUSAC, Beca de Creacion Artistica, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon , Leon, Spain

2002

Fundacion Carolina, Beca de Creacion, Madrid, Spain

2001

V Concurso Artes Plasticas Patronato de Telefonica, Honor Mention, Madrid, Spain

2000

Concurso Pasaporte para un Artista, French Embassy, Honor Mention, Lima, Peru

1999

III Concurso Artes Plasticas Patronato de Telefonica, Finalist, Madrid, Spain

Concurso Winsor & Newton Millenium Painting Competition, Finalist

V Concurso de Pintura Johnie Walker, Second Prize

1998

II Concurso Artes Plasticas Patronato de Telefonica, Finalist

1997

Premio Galeria 2V’s, Second Honor Mention

IV Concurso Nuevos Artistas, Banco de Credito del Peru, Double First Prize, Lima

1996

Premio Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Peru, Honor Mention in Painting, Lima, Peru

COLLECTIONS

Alcorcon city hall, Spain

ARTIUM, Basque Museum Art Center, Vitoria, Spain

Banco de Espana, Madrid, Spain

CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Espana.

CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Espana.

Deutsche Bank Art Collection

Fundacion Botin, Santander, Spain

Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum fur Gegenwart, Germany

Inelcom Art Collection, Spain

Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho – MG, Brazil

Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

LiMAC, Peru

MACBA – Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

MALI- Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru

MAR – Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

MASP – Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Micromuseo, Lima, Peru

MoMA, New York, U.S.A.

MUSAC, Leon, Spain

Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico.

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Espana.

PAAM, Miami, USA

Patio Herreriano Museum, Valladolid, Spain

Tate Modern, London, England

UBS Art Collection

Universidad Candido Mendez, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Universidad Castilla La Mancha, Spain

Sandra Gamarra. Finalista del Premio Julius Baer. Artistas latinoamericanas

Agosto, 2020

Expo Buen Gobierno

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