
Maylin Pérez is curator, advisor and independent art historian with more than a decade of experience in the cultural economic ecosystem, specialized in projects, exhibitions and collections management across global networks. Have collaborated with international organizations such as the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama, Toledo Foundation in Mexico, Japan Foundation, Accor, Paris Photo, among others. With understanding in contemporary art and museography, working with both established and emerging artists, assist collectors to build, organize and expand their collections.
In 2011, Pérez graduated Summa Cum Laude in Art History from the Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba and in 2022 completed a long-term course certified by Christie’s Education London: “Negotiating the Art Market: Collecting, Buying and Selling Art”. From 2012 to 2015, worked as curator of the Fototeca de Cuba and the Fábrica de Arte Cubano and in 2018 created the Fototeca de Panamá Foundation, a non-profit organization aimed at researching and promoting photography. Currently collaborates as a mentor for Vertical Crypto Art Residency, chief curator of Curo platform, Chile, and the Latin American art pavilion hosted in the Metaverse of DSL-Collection, France. Cuban born, Dutch citizenship and Panamanian by heart, Maylin plays a fundamental role in connecting with the art from Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States and Europe.
Art Advisory
Maylin Pérez offers a comprehensive advisory service on modern and contemporary art to private and corporate collectors. After knowing or formulating the client’s specific preferences and needs, assists them with research, appraisal and acquisition, inventory, curatorship, design and assembly of the collection.
Press
- El fotoperiodismo panameño, una historia con pocos registros y archivos
- Una reivindicación al trabajo de los fotoperiodistas de los años ’80
- “Museums Through Artists” en @museums_through_artists
- “Resistencia’: una muestra de fotógrafas latinoamericanas ante el escenario de la pandemia
- Galardonados en el Concurso Nacional de Artes Visuales Roberto Lewis
- Carlos Agrazal. Dimensiones
- La Casa del Soldado presentará exhibición “Carlos Endara, cien años de fotografías”
- Plástica y teatro para repensar la ciudad
- Invitan a visita guiada por muestra fotográfica
- Rachel Mozman en Arteconsult
- Fotografía como arte y eje componente de la cultura
- Variaciones y autonomía. Grabados contemporáneos de Japón
- Quinta Bienal Latinoamericana, New York, 2016
- Inauguran sede de la Fábrica de Arte Cubano