Mariluz Hoyos
Senior Consultant
During the last fifteen years, Mariluz has worked with a broad range of organizations including museums, university galleries, artist studios, and independent non-profits. Based in New York, she has managed exhibition projects implemented in thirteen countries and has coordinated teams with diverse specialties, languages, and cultural backgrounds. Before working in the arts, Mariluz worked as an economic history researcher in Colombia.
She most recently consulted for the Asia Society Triennial in New York, managing all aspects of exhibition planning for its inaugural edition, including forty artists, half of them presenting newly commissioned works. From 2005 to 2016, Mariluz worked with Cai Guo-Qiang Studio overseeing the planning and implementation of large-scale exhibitions that incorporated site-specific new commissions and ephemeral events, as well as cataloging, conservation, and research projects.
Mariluz was a Curator at Hunter College, Exhibition Coordinator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and has consulted on archival database development, exhibitions, and research assignments for Art in General, the Blanton Museum of Art, the Americas Society, El Museo del Barrio, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. As a researcher on economic history in Bogotá, Colombia, Mariluz worked for La Lonja de Propiedad Raíz de Bogotá and assisted with projects for faculty at the Centro de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the Universidad de los Andes. Earlier on, she worked as a qualitative analysis assistant for market research at CJS Investigación de Mercado.
Mariluz holds an MA in Latin American Studies with Advanced Certificate in Museum Studies from New York University, and a BA in Economics from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She is a co-founder of Little Meat Up, a series of salon-style presentations that features artists sharing their creative process in a critical and supportive environment. She was also a co-founder and coordinator of the Contemporary Art of the Americas Working Group CAM! and coordinated the Spring Lecture Series in Cultural Policy from 2002-2004 at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University.