Jorge Rivas

Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of Latin American Art | Denver Art Museum

Jorge F. Rivas Pérez, PhD, is the Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of Latin American Art and department head. 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 scheduled to reopen in 2021, 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. Rivas Pérez recent curatorial projects at the museum have included The Light Show and ReVisión: Art in the Americas. 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.