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 Lima) (2026); “Réplica”, Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo; “Pinacoteca Migrante”, National Library of Spain in Madrid; “Pinacoteca Migrante”, Spanish Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. “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; Casa de América, Madrid; among many others.
Sandra Gamarra has participated in collective exhibitions at: “Dorado”, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires; Inelcom Collection, Madrid; Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; 11th Berlin Biennial, Berlin; El Espacio 23, Miami; Museu do louvre Pau Brasil, Sao Paulo; Matadero, Madrid; Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), Castilla y León; Centro Botín, Santader; Pera Museum, Istanbul; Estación Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo; Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro (MAR), Rio de Janeiro; 29th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo; 53th Venice Biennial, Venice; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; among many others.
Gamarra’s work can be found in the following collections: Harvard Art Museums, Massachusetts; Kadist Foundation, San Francisco; Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), Brazil; Instituto Inhotim Collection, 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; Museum of Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAR), Rio de Janeiro; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León (MUSAC), Castilla y León; Patio Herreriano Museum, Valladolid; Tate Modern, London; Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg; among others.
Sandra Gamarra Heshiki’s work has been recently published in Phaidon’s “Great Women Painters”, 2022 and Phaidon’s “Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now”, 2023
Sandra Gamarra has participated in collective exhibitions at: “Dorado”, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires; Inelcom Collection, Madrid; Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; 11th Berlin Biennial, Berlin; El Espacio 23, Miami; Museu do louvre Pau Brasil, Sao Paulo; Matadero, Madrid; Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), Castilla y León; Centro Botín, Santader; Pera Museum, Istanbul; Estación Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo; Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro (MAR), Rio de Janeiro; 29th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo; 53th Venice Biennial, Venice; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; among many others.
Gamarra’s work can be found in the following collections: Harvard Art Museums, Massachusetts; Kadist Foundation, San Francisco; Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), Brazil; Instituto Inhotim Collection, 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; Museum of Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAR), Rio de Janeiro; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León (MUSAC), Castilla y León; Patio Herreriano Museum, Valladolid; Tate Modern, London; Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg; among others.
Sandra Gamarra Heshiki’s work has been recently 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 Lima) (2026); “Réplica”, Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo; “Pinacoteca Migrante”, National Library of Spain in Madrid; “Pinacoteca Migrante”, Spanish Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. “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; Casa de América, Madrid; among many others.
Sandra Gamarra has participated in collective exhibitions at: “Dorado”, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires; Inelcom Collection, Madrid; Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; 11th Berlin Biennial, Berlin; El Espacio 23, Miami; Museu do louvre Pau Brasil, Sao Paulo; Matadero, Madrid; Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), Castilla y León; Centro Botín, Santader; Pera Museum, Istanbul; Estación Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo; Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro (MAR), Rio de Janeiro; 29th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo; 53th Venice Biennial, Venice; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; among many others.
Gamarra’s work can be found in the following collections: Harvard Art Museums, Massachusetts; Kadist Foundation, San Francisco; Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), Brazil; Instituto Inhotim Collection, 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; Museum of Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAR), Rio de Janeiro; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León (MUSAC), Castilla y León; Patio Herreriano Museum, Valladolid; Tate Modern, London; Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg; among others.
Sandra Gamarra Heshiki’s work has been recently published in Phaidon’s “Great Women Painters”, 2022 and Phaidon’s “Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now”, 2023
Sandra Gamarra has participated in collective exhibitions at: “Dorado”, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires; Inelcom Collection, Madrid; Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; 11th Berlin Biennial, Berlin; El Espacio 23, Miami; Museu do louvre Pau Brasil, Sao Paulo; Matadero, Madrid; Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), Castilla y León; Centro Botín, Santader; Pera Museum, Istanbul; Estación Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo; Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro (MAR), Rio de Janeiro; 29th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo; 53th Venice Biennial, Venice; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; among many others.
Gamarra’s work can be found in the following collections: Harvard Art Museums, Massachusetts; Kadist Foundation, San Francisco; Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), Brazil; Instituto Inhotim Collection, 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; Museum of Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAR), Rio de Janeiro; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León (MUSAC), Castilla y León; Patio Herreriano Museum, Valladolid; Tate Modern, London; Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg; among others.
Sandra Gamarra Heshiki’s work has been recently 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