Roundtable: ReVisión: Art in the Americas

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The curators of the Denver Art Museum Victoria Lyall and Jorge Rivas join Valéria Piccoli, Ken and Linda Cutler Chair of the Arts of the Americas and Curator of Latin American Art at Mia, for a conversation around the exhibition ReVisión: Art in the Americas. Considering 2,500 years of artistic production, the narrative of the exhibition brings together historical objects and contemporary art to form a single interwoven story, devoid of chronology. The thematic presentation addresses issues that are at the core of the region’s cultural legacy and will be at the center of this conversation.

Victoria I. Lyall is the Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of Art of the Ancient Americas at the Denver Art Museum. She received her bachelor’s in anthropology and history of art from Yale University, her master’s in art history from Tulane University, and her PhD in pre-Columbian art history from UCLA. Lyall worked at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for 10 years and during her tenure participated in organizing the exhibitions Lords of Creation (2005), Olmec (2010), and Contested Visions( 2011). From 2014-2017, she taught museum studies as part of San Francisco State University’s master’s program in museum studies. Most recently, she is co-editor and contributor to ReVisión: A New Look at Art of the Americas (Hirmer, 2020), editor of Murals of the Americas (2019), and co-editor and contributor to Children of the Plumed Serpent (2012).

Jorge F. Rivas Pérez, PhD, is the Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of Latin American Art at the Denver Art Museum. He previously served as the curator of Spanish colonial art at the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in Venezuela, and as the associate curator of Latin American art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Since joining the Denver Art Museum in 2016, Rivas Pérez has focused on reimagining the Latin American art department, reinstalling the permanent collection galleries, and on the acquisitions program of the department. Under his leadership the department has strengthened historic Latin American art holdings and widened the breadth of its renowned collections expanding into modern and contemporary art from the region. He is the Latin American art editor and organizer of the Mayer Center Symposium program and publications and has contributed essays to publications on a wide range of Latin American art, design and material culture topics. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela, received his master’s from the University of Florence, Italy, and his master of philosophy and PhD from the Bard Graduate Center in New York City.

ReVisión: Art in the Americas is on view July 1, 2023-September 17, 2023. Contributor+ member on-sale date: Monday, June 5, 2023. Explorer member and public on-sale date: Tuesday, June 20, 2023.