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Luis Pérez-OramasLuis Pérez-Oramas (August 7, 1960 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan/American poet,[1] art historian and curator. He is the author of eleven poetry books, seven recollections of essays, and numerous art exhibition catalogs. He has contributed as Op-Ed author to national newspapers in Venezuela (El Nacional and El Universal) as well as to various literary and art magazines in the U.S,[2] Latin America and Europe.[3] Early lifeHe studied Comparative Literature in Caracas at the Andrés Bello Catholic University, graduating Summa Cum Laude after writing a thesis on the Mexican poet José Gorostiza. Later he pursued his studies in Philosophy and Art History in Toulouse and Paris (France), receiving a Ph.D. from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHHSS, Paris) in 1994, under the direction of Louis Marin and Hubert Damisch,[4] after completing his doctoral dissertation on Diego Velazquez. He was a member of Grupo Guaire, in Venezuela, and took part at the Taller Calicanto under the direction of the Venezuelan poet Antonia Palacios, thereafter successfully pursuing his literary production to critical acclaim.[5] CareerHe taught Art History at the University of Rennes 2-Upper Brittany, the Ecole Supérieure de Beaux-Arts de Nantes, and, after returning from France to his native Venezuela, at the Instituto Superior de Estudios Universitarios en Artes Plásticas Armando Reverón, Caracas. He has also taught at the Master Program in Museum Architecture and Museology at the Faculty of Architecture, Central University of Venezuela. Between 1994 and 2003 he was curator of the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, Caracas. He has organized numerous art exhibitions in Venezuela, Brazil, Europe, and the US. In 2011 he was appointed Curatorial Director of the XXXth São Paulo Biennial,[6] which he organized under the title The Imminence of Poetics,[7] an edition extremely well received both nationally and internationally.[8][9][10] He worked as a curator at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, since 2003 where he held the position of Latin American Art curator between 2006 and 2017.[11] He currently lives and works in New York as an independent curator, art consultant and writer. PublicationsBooks – Poetry
Books – Art History and Criticism, Social Issues
Catalogues (A selection)
AnthologiesLopez Ortega A., Gomes Miguel, Saraceni G.: Rasgos Comunes. Antología de la poesía venezolana del siglo XX, Valencia: Pe-textos, 2019. Gina Saraceni: En-Obra. Antología de la poesía venezolana 1983-2008, Caracas: Equinoccio-Universidad Simón Bolívar, 2008. Enrique Andrés Ruiz: Las dos hermanas. Antología de la poesía española e hispanoamericana del siglo XX sobre pintura, Madrid: Fondo de Cultura Económica de España, 2011. Syntaxis: una aventura creadora. 30 años del nacimiento de una revista, Santa Cruz de Tenerife: TEA, 2014. AwardsMonteávila Poetry Award 1983. References
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