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Natalia Majluf

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Majluf and the second or maternal family name is Brahim.
Natalia Majluf
Majluf in 2018
Born1967 (age 57–58)
Lima, Peru
Occupations
  • Curator
  • historian
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2011)
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisThe Creation of the Image of the Indian in 19th-Century Peru: The Paintings of Francisco Laso (1823-1869) (1995)
Doctoral advisorJacqueline Barnitz
Academic work
DisciplineArt history
Sub-disciplinePeruvian art
InstitutionsLima Art Museum

Natalia Majluf Brahim[1] (born 1967) is a Peruvian curator and historian. She was head curator of the Lima Art Museum from 1995 to 2001, before serving as director from 2002 until 2018. She was a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and the 2018-2019 Simón Bolívar Professor of Latin-American Studies, and wrote the 2022 book Inventing Indigenism.

Biography

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Majluf was born in 1967 in Lima,[2] to a Palestinian-Peruvian family.[3] She was educated at San Silvestre School.[4] She got a BA at Boston College, earned an MA at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts in 1990, and a PhD at University of Texas at Austin in 1995.[5] Her doctoral dissertation The Creation of the Image of the Indian in 19th-Century Peru: The Paintings of Francisco Laso (1823-1869) was supervised by Jacqueline Barnitz.[6]

Majluf joined the Lima Art Museum (MALI) in 1988.[7] In 1995, she became the first head curator of the museum, holding the position until 2001.[5][8] In 2002, she became director of the museum.[9] As director, she supervised a large repertoire of works and exhibitions in the field of Peruvian art.[8] She also curated exhibitions outside of Peru, specifically at the Americas Society and the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac.[4] She was a University of Cambridge Centre of Latin American Studies (CLAS) Visiting Fellow in 2007.[10] In 2011, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in History.[5]

In 2018, Majluf stepped down as director of MALI to serve as Simón Bolívar Professor of Latin-American Studies at the CLAS, a position she held until the next year.[8][11] She continued to operate as director of MALI's "Historias. Arte y cultura del Perú" resource page even after leaving MALI.[9] She was a 2021-2022 Tinker Visiting Professor in Art History at the University of Chicago.[12]

Majluf's historical research is centered around Latin American art (particularly Peruvian art) and post-colonial issues in visual art.[5][12] She has edited and authored several exhibition catalogues and works, including El primer siglo de la fotografía: Perú, 1842-1942 (2001), Los Incas, reyes del Perú (2005), Tipos del Perú (2008), Luis Montero: The Funerals of Atahualpa (2011), Sabogal (2013) and Chambi (2015).[9] In 2021, she published Inventing Indigenism, a history book on the depictions of indigenous people in painter Francisco Laso;[13] it won the 2023 Association for Latin American Art Book Award.[14] She worked for the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru's art history graduate program.[5]

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References

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  1. ^ "Más de 50 mil personas visitaron el Museo de Arte desde reapertura en abril". andina.pe (in Spanish). 31 May 2010. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  2. ^ "Natalia MAJLUF". Hay Festival. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
  3. ^ "Un palestino afincado en el Perú siente a este país como suyo". PuntoEdu PUCP (in Spanish). 2 April 2010. Archived from the original on 21 March 2021. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  4. ^ a b "Majluf, Natalia". Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Natalia Majluf". Guggenheim Fellowships. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  6. ^ Majluf, Natalia (1995). The Creation of the Image of the Indian in 19th-Century Peru: The Paintings of Francisco Laso (1823-1869) (Thesis). University of Texas at Austin. OCLC 1195758323.
  7. ^ "Natalia Majluf". Enel Perú (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 4 July 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  8. ^ a b c "Natalia Majluf leaves the direction of MALI to return to the investigation". Arte Al Dia. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  9. ^ a b c "Natalia Majluf". PAC. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  10. ^ "Natalia Majluf". www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk. 6 November 2023. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  11. ^ "Former Simón Bolívar Professors". www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk. 26 October 2023. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  12. ^ a b "Natalia Majluf". Tinker Foundation. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  13. ^ "Inventing Indigenism". University of Texas Press. Archived from the original on 4 March 2025. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  14. ^ "Book Award Recipients". Association for Latin American Art. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  15. ^ Carrera, Magali (24 May 2022). "Inventing Indigenism: Francisco Laso's Image of Modern Peru". CAA Reviews.
  16. ^ Carrillo, Gisela Salas (2023). "Review of La invención del indio. Francisco Laso y la imagen del Perú moderno". Confluencia. 39 (1): 137–138. ISSN 0888-6091. JSTOR 27262231.
  17. ^ Lehmann, David. "How Francisco Laso imagined modern Peru". Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
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