Born in Ayacucho, Peru, and based between Amsterdam and Lima, Claudia Martínez Garay has a wide-ranging practice that comprises painting, sculpture, printmaking, video and site-specific installation. Rooted in her Andean heritage, her work critically engages with historical images, propaganda and mythologies from Peru while interrogating European museum collections and colonialist narratives. Her pieces challenge persistent frameworks and enrich understanding of pre-Columbian cultures.
She recently held solo exhibitions at GRIMM, London and New York; Dundee Contemporary Art; Nottingham Contemporary; Artpace, San Antonio; and the Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing. Her work is in the collections of the AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam; the AMC Art Collection, Amsterdam; Fundación Studie e Richerche Benetton, Treviso; Central Reserve Bank of Peru; Cisnero Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami; the Denver Art Museum; THE EKARD COLLECTION; Hochschild Collection, Lima; the KADIST Collection, Paris and San Francisco; KPMG Art Collection, Amsterdam; the LAM museum, Lisse; the LOOP Collection, MACBA; Micromuseo al fondo hay sitio, Lima; Museo de Arte de Lima; Museu Olho Latino, Atibaia; Museum Arnhem; and Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, amongst others.