Sandra Gamarra Heshiki
Bio/CV
Available works
Sandra Gamarra Heshiki
Sandra Gamarra Heshiki
Sandra Gamarra Heshiki (Lima, 1972) lives between Madrid and Lima. She holds a BFA at the Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima and has a PhD at the Academia de Arte de Cuenca in Spain.
Bio/CV
Sandra Gamarra Heshiki
Her recent solo exhibitions include “Construcción de los hechos”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima (MAC) (2026); “Réplica”, Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo (2026); “Pinacoteca Migrante”, National Library of Spain, Madrid; “Pinacoteca Migrante”, Spanish Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, Venice; “El mundo al revés”, Livia Benavides Gallery, Lima; Museo Amparo, Puebla; Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela; Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid; Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima; Fundación Rac, Pontevedra; Bass Museum, Miami; and Casa de América, Madrid; among others.
Her recent group exhibitions include Dorado, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires; Inelcom Collection, Madrid; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; El Espacio 23, Miami; Matadero, Madrid; Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (MACBA); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC); Centro Botín, Santander; Pera Museum, Istanbul; Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo; Museo de Arte do Rio de Janeiro (MAR); and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; among many others. Her work has also been presented in major international biennials including the 11th Berlin Biennial; the 29th São Paulo Biennial; and the 53rd Venice Biennale; among others.
Gamarra Heshiki’s work is held in collections including Harvard Art Museums, Massachusetts; Kadist Foundation, San Francisco; Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), Brazil; Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho; Museo Amparo, Puebla; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid; Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin; Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela; Inelcom Collection, Madrid; Artium, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del País Vasco, Vitoria-Gasteiz; Botín Foundation, Santander; MALI, Lima; Museo de Arte do Rio de Janeiro (MAR); Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC); Patio Herreriano Museum, Valladolid; Tate Modern, London; and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; among others.
Sandra Gamarra Heshiki’s work has been published in Phaidon’s Great Women Painters (2022) and Phaidon’s Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now (2023).
Her recent group exhibitions include Dorado, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires; Inelcom Collection, Madrid; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; El Espacio 23, Miami; Matadero, Madrid; Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (MACBA); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC); Centro Botín, Santander; Pera Museum, Istanbul; Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo; Museo de Arte do Rio de Janeiro (MAR); and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; among many others. Her work has also been presented in major international biennials including the 11th Berlin Biennial; the 29th São Paulo Biennial; and the 53rd Venice Biennale; among others.
Gamarra Heshiki’s work is held in collections including Harvard Art Museums, Massachusetts; Kadist Foundation, San Francisco; Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), Brazil; Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho; Museo Amparo, Puebla; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid; Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin; Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela; Inelcom Collection, Madrid; Artium, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del País Vasco, Vitoria-Gasteiz; Botín Foundation, Santander; MALI, Lima; Museo de Arte do Rio de Janeiro (MAR); Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC); Patio Herreriano Museum, Valladolid; Tate Modern, London; and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; among others.
Sandra Gamarra Heshiki’s work has been published in Phaidon’s Great Women Painters (2022) and Phaidon’s Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now (2023).
Available works
“Máscaras Mestizas VI”, 2024
250 x 170 cm
Red iron oxide, oil, press cuttings, wooden mask, alpaca fabric, cotton fabric and imitation gold leaf on canvas
“Extinction VI (Conch Shells on Trujillo Codex)”, 2024
19 x 22 cm each
Oil on facsimile pages of the book “Trujillo del Perú a Fines del Siglo XVII” by Baltasar Jaime Martínez de Compañón.
“Imágenes crocantes sobre un ambiente húmedo. Buen Gobierno X”, 2021
40 x 40 cm
Oil on canvas
“Imágenes crocantes sobre un ambiente húmedo. Buen Gobierno VIII”, 2021
40 x 40 cm
Oil on canvas
“Imágenes crocantes sobre un ambiente húmedo. Buen Gobierno VII”, 2021
40 x 40 cm
Oil on canvas
“Imágenes crocantes sobre un ambiente húmedo. Buen Gobierno VI”, 2021
40 x 40 cm
Oil on canvas
“Imágenes crocantes sobre un ambiente húmedo. Buen Gobierno IV”, 2021
40 x 40 cm
Oil on canvas
“Imágenes crocantes sobre un ambiente húmedo. Buen Gobierno II”, 2021
40 x 40 cm
Oil on canvas
“Criptomnesia VI (o en algunos museos nunca sale el sol)”, 2020
120 x 120 cm
Oil paint and newspaper clippings on canvas
“Cryptomnesia V (or in some museums the sun never shines)”, 2020
120 x 120 cm
Oil and newspaper clippings on canvas
Sandra Gamarra Heshiki
Sandra Gamarra Heshiki (Lima, 1972) lives between Madrid and Lima. She holds a BFA at the Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima and has a PhD at the Academia de Arte de Cuenca in Spain.
Sandra Gamarra Heshiki
Her recent solo exhibitions include “Construcción de los hechos”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima (MAC) (2026); “Réplica”, Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo (2026); “Pinacoteca Migrante”, National Library of Spain, Madrid; “Pinacoteca Migrante”, Spanish Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, Venice; “El mundo al revés”, Livia Benavides Gallery, Lima; Museo Amparo, Puebla; Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela; Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid; Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima; Fundación Rac, Pontevedra; Bass Museum, Miami; and Casa de América, Madrid; among others.
Her recent group exhibitions include Dorado, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires; Inelcom Collection, Madrid; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; El Espacio 23, Miami; Matadero, Madrid; Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (MACBA); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC); Centro Botín, Santander; Pera Museum, Istanbul; Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo; Museo de Arte do Rio de Janeiro (MAR); and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; among many others. Her work has also been presented in major international biennials including the 11th Berlin Biennial; the 29th São Paulo Biennial; and the 53rd Venice Biennale; among others.
Gamarra Heshiki’s work is held in collections including Harvard Art Museums, Massachusetts; Kadist Foundation, San Francisco; Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), Brazil; Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho; Museo Amparo, Puebla; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid; Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin; Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela; Inelcom Collection, Madrid; Artium, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del País Vasco, Vitoria-Gasteiz; Botín Foundation, Santander; MALI, Lima; Museo de Arte do Rio de Janeiro (MAR); Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC); Patio Herreriano Museum, Valladolid; Tate Modern, London; and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; among others.
Sandra Gamarra Heshiki’s work has been published in Phaidon’s Great Women Painters (2022) and Phaidon’s Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now (2023).
Her recent group exhibitions include Dorado, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires; Inelcom Collection, Madrid; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; El Espacio 23, Miami; Matadero, Madrid; Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (MACBA); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC); Centro Botín, Santander; Pera Museum, Istanbul; Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo; Museo de Arte do Rio de Janeiro (MAR); and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; among many others. Her work has also been presented in major international biennials including the 11th Berlin Biennial; the 29th São Paulo Biennial; and the 53rd Venice Biennale; among others.
Gamarra Heshiki’s work is held in collections including Harvard Art Museums, Massachusetts; Kadist Foundation, San Francisco; Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), Brazil; Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho; Museo Amparo, Puebla; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid; Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin; Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela; Inelcom Collection, Madrid; Artium, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del País Vasco, Vitoria-Gasteiz; Botín Foundation, Santander; MALI, Lima; Museo de Arte do Rio de Janeiro (MAR); Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC); Patio Herreriano Museum, Valladolid; Tate Modern, London; and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; among others.
Sandra Gamarra Heshiki’s work has been published in Phaidon’s Great Women Painters (2022) and Phaidon’s Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now (2023).
“Máscaras Mestizas VI”, 2024
250 x 170 cm
Red iron oxide, oil, press cuttings, wooden mask, alpaca fabric, cotton fabric and imitation gold leaf on canvas
“Extinction VI (Conch Shells on Trujillo Codex)”, 2024
19 x 22 cm each
Oil on facsimile pages of the book “Trujillo del Perú a Fines del Siglo XVII” by Baltasar Jaime Martínez de Compañón.
“Imágenes crocantes sobre un ambiente húmedo. Buen Gobierno X”, 2021
40 x 40 cm
Oil on canvas
“Imágenes crocantes sobre un ambiente húmedo. Buen Gobierno VIII”, 2021
40 x 40 cm
Oil on canvas
“Imágenes crocantes sobre un ambiente húmedo. Buen Gobierno VII”, 2021
40 x 40 cm
Oil on canvas
“Imágenes crocantes sobre un ambiente húmedo. Buen Gobierno VI”, 2021
40 x 40 cm
Oil on canvas
“Imágenes crocantes sobre un ambiente húmedo. Buen Gobierno IV”, 2021
40 x 40 cm
Oil on canvas
“Imágenes crocantes sobre un ambiente húmedo. Buen Gobierno II”, 2021
40 x 40 cm
Oil on canvas
“Criptomnesia VI (o en algunos museos nunca sale el sol)”, 2020
120 x 120 cm
Oil paint and newspaper clippings on canvas
“Cryptomnesia V (or in some museums the sun never shines)”, 2020
120 x 120 cm
Oil and newspaper clippings on canvas