AppointmentOctober 2, 2019
Aimé Iglesias Lukin has been named as the Director and Chief Curator of Visual Arts at Americas Society
Susan Segal, President and CEO of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas announced that Aimé Iglesias Lukin is the new Director and Chief Curator of Visual Arts at Americas Society. Iglesias Lukin will assume her new role in early October.
“We are thrilled that Aimé will join us at the Americas Society. We believe that the sum of her rich experience, commitment to excellence, as well as her enormous enthusiasm is the perfect combination as we commence this new chapter in our Visual Arts Program,” said Susan Segal. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Aimé Iglesias Lukin is an art historian and curator based in New York since 2011. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at Rutgers University specializing in modern and contemporary Latin American art.
Iglesias Lukin has received grants for her research from the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Terra, and Mellon Foundations, as well as the Peter C. Marzio Award from the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. She has presented her research at international conferences and published articles and chapters in numerous academic journals and museum publications, including the New Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim Museum. She previously worked at the Modern and Contemporary Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Institute for Studies in Latin American Art, and Fundación PROA in Buenos Aires.
“We are thrilled that Aimé will join us at the Americas Society. We believe that the sum of her rich experience, commitment to excellence, as well as her enormous enthusiasm is the perfect combination as we commence this new chapter in our Visual Arts Program,” said Susan Segal. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Aimé Iglesias Lukin is an art historian and curator based in New York since 2011. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at Rutgers University specializing in modern and contemporary Latin American art.
Iglesias Lukin has received grants for her research from the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Terra, and Mellon Foundations, as well as the Peter C. Marzio Award from the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. She has presented her research at international conferences and published articles and chapters in numerous academic journals and museum publications, including the New Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim Museum. She previously worked at the Modern and Contemporary Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Institute for Studies in Latin American Art, and Fundación PROA in Buenos Aires.
