Aimé Iglesias Lukin Is the Winner of the Vilcek Award
Aimé Iglesias Lukin Is the Winner of the Vilcek Award
"I am very proud to work for an organization that values immigrants' contributions," said the AS chief curator of art according to Arte al Día.
The Vilcek Foundation has named Argentine Director and Chief Curator of Art Aimé Iglesias Lukin as one of the three recipients of the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Curatorial Work.
The award recognizes immigrant contributions to the arts and sciences in the United States. Iglesias Lukin is being recognized "for her leadership promoting the art of the Americas, and her focused initiatives to achieve recognition for historically underrepresented migrant and women artists", said the foundation.
Born and raised in Buenos Aires, she moved to New York in 2011. Her Ph.D. in art history from Rutgers University, titled This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York 1965–1975, became an exhibition at Americas Society in 2021. Iglesias Lukin 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.
