About Us

Founded in the 1970s by Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Gustavo A. Cisneros, the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) is one of the core cultural and educational initiatives of the Fundación Cisneros. 

Based in New York City and Caracas, the CPPC’s mission is to enhance appreciation of the diversity, sophistication, and range of art from Latin America, advance scholarship of Latin American art, and promote excellence in visual-arts education.  The CPPC achieves these goals through the preservation, presentation, and study of the material culture of the Ibero-American world—ranging from the ethnographic to the contemporary.

CPPC activities include exhibitions, publications, grants for scholarly research and artistic production, as well as other innovative initiatives specially designed to create communities for discussion and reflection.

Founders
Gustavo A. Cisneros
Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

President
Adriana Cisneros de Griffin

President Emeritus
Pedro. R. Tinoco T.

Director and Chief Curator
Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro

Director Emeritus
Rafael A. Romero

Deputy Director
Ileen Kohn

Director of Operations
Antonio Melo

Assistant Director
Rafael Santana

Project Managers
Natalia Afanasiev, Caracas

Sara Meadows, NY

Manager of Communications
Mariana Barrera Pieck

Assistant to the Director Emeritus
Katiuska Rivas

Publications Consultant
Donna Wingate

Curatorial Department

Curator of Contemporary Art
Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy

Curator of Colonial Art
Jorge Rivas

Curator of the Orinoco Collection
Zuleima Jiménez

Curator Emeritus of the Orinoco Collection
Andrés Ortega

Curatorial Advisors
Ariel Jiménez
Paulo Herkenhoff

Curatorial Assistant
Fabiana Lopes

Collections Management

Registrar
Skye Monson

Assistant Registrars
Nicolas Pérez
John Thomas Robinette, III

Librarian, Information + Special Projects Manager
Satoshi Tabuchi