Christian Bendayán

Christian Bendayán was born in the city of Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, in 1973. An artist and curator, he has exhibited his work internationally, as well as curated numerous exhibitions within Peru and abroad. His awards include, in 2000, the National Art Contest Passport and, in 2012, the National Culture Award. He was previously the director of the National Institute of Culture of Loreto, as well as the founding partner and artistic director of Art Lima (2013–2016). He was the founder and director of Bufeo: Amazonía + Arte (2015–2018), a project dedicated to the research, promotion, and management of Amazonian art. In 2019, his exhibition “Indios antropófagos” represented Peru at the 58th Venice Art Biennale, and in 2021, he directed AMA/zones of myths and visions, a documentary miniseries on Amazonian art. His essay “The Artivism of the Amazonia Mythic Imagination” is included in Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology, published by CULTURESCAPES and Sternberg Press in 2021.