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, and the internationally-recognized education initiative Piensa en arte/Think Art.

Founders
Gustavo A. Cisneros
Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

President
Adriana Cisneros de Griffin

President Emeritus
Pedro. R. Tinoco T.

Director
Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro

Director Emeritus
Rafael A. Romero

Associate Director
Ileen Kohn Sosa

Director of Operations
Antonio Melo

Assistant Director
Rafael Santana

Project Manager
Natalia Afanasiev

Manager of Communications
Mariana Barrera Pieck

Assistant to the Director Emeritus
Katiuska Rivas

Project Assistant
Sara Meadows

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

Education and  Piensa en arte/Think Art

Curator of Education
María del Carmen González

Pedagogical Advisor
Luis Camnitzer

Assistant Curator of Education
Sofía Quirós

Coordinator
Ingrid Melizán Lanser

Collections Management

Registrar
Skye Monson

Assistant Registrars
Natacha del Valle
Nicolas Pérez
John Thomas Robinette, III

Librarian
Satoshi Tabuchi