Bio
Lorena has presented her work in Latin America and Europe. In Lima, she has participated in group exhibitions in spaces such as the Metropolitan Museum of Lima, Inca Garcilaso Cultural Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Limas National Library, Amano Museum (Pre-Columbine Textile Museum) as well at the Gallery El Olivar Cultural Center, among others.
She has held eight solo exhibitions: Compass, Of the ambiguous; Colonization of the space, Geography of time I and Geography of time II; Matter and mathematics of a new landscape; Natural history lesson; and Connection times, the latter selected to be part of BIENALSUR – International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South, as well as MACFOTO Photography Festival, organized by the Lima Contemporary Art museum MAC.
Internationally, she has exhibited in photography festivals and colloquia such as PHotoEspaña (São Paulo and Madrid), the Cuatro Caminos Museum (Mexico City), and House of America (Madrid). Her work is part of both public and private collections including FOLA (Buenos Aires), the Jan Mulder Collection (Lima), and the San Marcos Art Museum (Lima). Likewise, her work has been published in volumes such as Lima, Perú by Mario Testino, Estratos de un paisaje, Fotografía Contemporánea. Colección Jan Mulder, and La Mirada Persistente. Fotografía peruana, siglos XIX–XXI (Marisa Mujica, ed.).
She studied Fine Arts at the Escuela de Artes Corriente Alterna and attended photography workshops at what is now the Centro de la Imagen. She was a finalist in Descubrimientos PHotoEspaña 2017, selected in 2021, and finalist of the Máster PhE PhotoEspaña Grant 2023 (Madrid). She was also a finalist in the MUCEN National Painting Competition (Lima, 2023). She lives and works in Lima, Peru.
My motivation in making art lies in generating ways of drawing attention to issues I consider essential, proposing works in different media that invite reflection on what it means to inhabit the world today.
My visual thinking is focused on observing and questioning the place human beings occupy on the planet, as well as the power societies have exerted over different territories and their resources. I am particularly interested in data visualization methods and the tools that allow us to collect and analyze information about the natural world. I work with both scientific and para-scientific resources such as measurement, cartography, landscape photography, filming, and the recording of phenomena, to construct images that interrogate our relationship with nature and history.
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2025 Connection times. Inca Garcilaso Cultural Center, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lima, Peru. (Curated by Jorge Villacorta).
2022 Natural history lesson, Lima (Curated by Jorge Villacorta).
2020 Matter and mathematics of a new landscape. Del Paseo Gallery, Punta del Este (Curated, Jorge Villacorta).
2019 Geography of time II. Gallery Felipe Cossio Del Pomar, El Olivar Cultural Center of San Isidro, Lima.
2019 Geography of time I. Galería del Paseo, Lima.
2016 Colonization of space. Forum Gallery, Lima.
2014 Of the ambiguous. Forum Gallery, Lima.
2009 Compass. Forum Gallery, Lima.
SELECTION OF COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2025 Strata of a Landscape | Jan Mulder Collection, Inca Garcilaso Cultural Center, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lima. Curatorship (Alejandro Castellote)
2021 Perú 200 años, Peruvian collective, Galería del Paseo, Uruguay.
2021 Otra Feria, contemporary art, Buenos Aires.
2020 5 Fotógrafos Peruanos Contemporáneos. Galería del Paseo, Punta del Este Uruguay.
2020 Canteen. Campo Garzón, Galería del Paseo, Uruguay.
2019 Visual Dialogues, Official Art Lima. Galeria del Paseo, Lima.
2019 Stratum of a Landscape. ARCO Madrid, Spain. Jan Mulder´s Collection, Casa de América, Madrid (Curated, Alejandro Castellote).
2018 Qulla Raymi Killa. Amano Museum (Pre-Colombine Textile Museum), Lima.
2018 Variations. Gallery del Paseo, Punta del Este (Curated, Luisa Fernanda Lindo).
2017 Pacific Horizons. Galería del Paseo, Punta del Este (Curated, Luisa Fernanda Lindo).
2016 Art for Ayacucho. National Library of Lima (Curated, Rocio Rodrigo).
2015 45 Peruvian photographers. Cultural Center Inca Garcilaso, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lima (Curated, Maria and Mario Acha).
2014 Lima: Territory and memory. Metropolitan Museum of Lima.
2012 Projection of the book Common Places (author of the book Lorena Noblecilla). Night in white, Art in public space, Lima (Curated, Christian Bendayán).
2010 Photo Shop. Vértice Gallery, Lima.
2008 Love and rejection City. Forum Gallery, Lima.
2008 Nature. Flujo project, Lima.
BIENNIALS AND FAIRS
2025 Connection times was part of Bienalsur, the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South.
2025 PArC, Contemporary Art. Galería Del Paseo, Lima.
2023 PArC, Contemporary Art. Galería Del Paseo, Lima.
2021 Otra Feria, contemporary art, Buenos Aires.
2019 International photography Fair, Limaphoto. Galería Del Paseo, Lima.
2018 International photography Fair, Limaphoto. Galería Del Paseo, Lima.
2012 Common Places book (author Lorena Noblecilla). Photography Biennial of Lima.
2012 From the illusion of unreality. Parallel exhibition I Photography Biennial of Lima. Forum Gallery, Lima (Curated, Ana María Rodrigo).
2010 to 2016 International photography Fair, Limaphoto. Forum Gallery, Lima.
FESTIVALS AND COLLOQUIA
2025 Connection times was part of the MACFOTO photography festival, organized by the Lima Contemporary Art museum MAC.
2023 Finalist for the Master PhE PHotoESPAÑA, Madrid
2021 Selected for the Descubrimientos PHotoESPAÑA, event of the international photography festival PHotoESPAÑA.
2017 Selected in the international photography festival of Getxophoto in the contest Popular Participation. Collective exhibition of The future is here. Culture of Algorta Classroom, Getxo, País Vasco, Spain.
2017 Transatlantic 10 years, PHotoESPAÑA International Photography Festival, official festival exhibition celebrating the ten years of the Transatlantic project, exhibition entitled Confluences. Casa de America, Madrid.
2017 Transatlantic 10 years, PHotoESPAÑA International Photography Festival, celebrating the ten years of the Transatlantic project with the exhibition entitled Confluences. Sesc Vila Mariana, São Paulo.
2017 Selected by the Pedro Meyer Foundation through Cuatro Caminos Photo Museum viewing with representatives of the photographic setting such as Joan Foncuberta, Fred Ritchin, Claudi Carreras, Andrea Jösh, among others. Latin American Photography Colloquium: Where are we going?, Mexico City.
2016 Selected at the international thematic photography festival Getxophoto in the Popular Participation contest within the theme Time. Getxo, País Vasco, Spain.
2016 Selected for the Transatlantic Viewing, event of the PHotoESPAÑA international photography festival. Cultural Center of Spain in Lima.
PUBLICATIONS
2025 La Mirada Persistente Fotografia Peruana. Siglos XIX – XXI. Marisa Mujica. Editorial Fund ©ULima.
2021 International Seminar La Etica en el Arte with Luis Camnitzer.
2020 Collection Jan Mulder, Photography book Contemporary Photography, Editorial ©RM y Meier Ramirez, Ciudad de México.
2019 Colección Jan Mulder Stratum of a Landscape. ©Printing Brizzolis Madrid, Spain.
2017 XX Internacional Festival of Photography and visuals arts PHotoESPAÑA ©La Fábrica, Madrid.
2017 Trasatlántica Photoespaña, Sao Paulo ©La Fábrica, Sao Paulo.
2016 Book Andean Eye Perú by Luciano Benetton Collection. ©The Factory editorial, Italy.
2015 Fola Catalog, Collection Fola, Fototeca latinoamericana ©Fola, Buenos Aires.
2012 Photography book project Common places(author of the book Lorena Noblecilla) selected at the book Fair of photo authors. Centro de la Imagen, Photography Biennial of Lima.
2007 Photographic image selected in the photography book titled Lima – Perú by Mario Testino. Damiani editorial, London.
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Jan W. Mulder Collection, Lima.
Permanent collection at the San Marcos Art Museum, Lima.
Fototeca Latinoamérica Fola Collection, Buenos Aires.
CONTESTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2023 Finalist for the Master PhE PHotoESPAÑA, Madrid
2023 Selected to participate with the works Aracne / Cambio de piel, in the Video-project section of PArC (curated by Irene Gelfman), Lima.
2021 Selected in Descubrimientos PHotoESPAÑA, Madrid.
2017-2018 First finalist of Discoveries PHotoESPAÑA for the PHotoEspaña Master’s degree in photography. Theories and artistic projects with the Colonization of space project, Madrid.
2016 Finalist in the sea photography contest, Amalamar, selected photography with the title of Conquering of the space. Cultural Association Yaku Azul, Lima.
DIRECTION AND REALIZATION FOR PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS
2015 Bridge of Queswachaca. Great National Theater. Within the framework of the activities of the annual Board of Governors, Ministry of Culture, Lima.
2014 Yuyanapaq: to remember. FILBO. Center of historical memory of Bogotá, Ministry of Culture, Bogotá.
2014 The poet who loved life, Antonio Cisneros. FILBO. Corferias, Perú Pavilion, Ministry of Culture, Bogotá.
TEACHING
She has been teaching photography since 2011. She has been a professor at Corriente Alterna, Centro de la Imagen and Fuera de Foco.
OTHERS
2021 Virtual workshop Introduction to image analysis, by Carlos Zevallos, Lima.
2020 Virtual Workshop Topics and Agents of Contemporary Art in Peru, by Sharon Lerner, Lima.
2020 Virtual workshop Heterochronies and skin changes, by Jorge Villacorta, Lima.
2020 Virtual workshop What do images think?, by Alejandro Leon Cannock, Lima.
2020 Virtual workshop U-turns and drifts without antidote, by Jorge Villacorta, Lima.
2020 Virtual seminar Ethics in Art, by Luis Camnitzer, Centro de la Imagen, Lima.
2020 Virtual workshop U-turns and drifts, by Jorge Villacorta, Lima.
2017 What is post-photography? workshop, by Alejandro Leon Cannock, Lima.
2017 Participation in the Latin American Photography Colloquium, where are we going? Cuatro Caminos Museum, Pedro Meyer Foundation, Mexico City.
2013 Participation in the seminar of curatorial and creation of exhibitions, by Gerardo Mosquera, School of Art, Corriente Alterna, Lima.