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Patricia Phelps de Cisneros is recognized with the ARCO Honorary “A” Award
Patricia Phelps de Cisneros was recognized with the Fundación ARCO Honorary “A” Award for her support of art during the ceremony held on March 4, 2025, at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.
This recognition reflects the commitment she has built through the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC), an initiative that has been dedicated to preserving and promoting the art and culture of Latin America and the Caribbean since the 1970s. Based in Caracas, the Dominican Republic, Madrid, and New York, the CPPC has been led since 2008 by her daughter, Adriana Cisneros de Griffin.
The collection spans five main areas, including 20th-century Latin American geometric abstraction and the Orinoco Collection, which preserves the cultural expressions of Indigenous communities from the Amazon. It also includes works by artists who depicted Latin American landscapes between the 17th and 19th centuries, colonial art from Venezuela and the Caribbean, and contemporary works by Latin American and Caribbean artists.
The CPPC has developed an extensive publishing program, organized nearly 400 exhibitions, and facilitated loans in more than 196 museums, as well as donating works to over 20 museums across the Americas and Europe. It also establishes strategic partnerships with universities and cultural institutions to advance research on Latin American art, with a key initiative being the Cisneros Institute at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
ARCOmadrid, a key contemporary art fair in Spain since 1982, celebrated its 44th edition in 2025 with Wametise: Ideas for an Amazofuturism, featuring the Amazon as its central theme, among other programs. Curated by Denilson Baniwa and María Wills in collaboration with the Institute for Postnatural Studies in Madrid, it will explore new creative forms that merge the human, the natural, and the spiritual.
We also extend our congratulations to the other recipients of the 2025 “A” Awards for Collecting: Fundació Sorigué, Juan Carlos and Tati Maldonado, Fernando Arriola and Yolanda Zugaza, and Álex Ruas Wege.
For more information on ARCOmadrid and its awardees, visit its website.
This recognition reflects the commitment she has built through the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC), an initiative that has been dedicated to preserving and promoting the art and culture of Latin America and the Caribbean since the 1970s. Based in Caracas, the Dominican Republic, Madrid, and New York, the CPPC has been led since 2008 by her daughter, Adriana Cisneros de Griffin.
The collection spans five main areas, including 20th-century Latin American geometric abstraction and the Orinoco Collection, which preserves the cultural expressions of Indigenous communities from the Amazon. It also includes works by artists who depicted Latin American landscapes between the 17th and 19th centuries, colonial art from Venezuela and the Caribbean, and contemporary works by Latin American and Caribbean artists.
The CPPC has developed an extensive publishing program, organized nearly 400 exhibitions, and facilitated loans in more than 196 museums, as well as donating works to over 20 museums across the Americas and Europe. It also establishes strategic partnerships with universities and cultural institutions to advance research on Latin American art, with a key initiative being the Cisneros Institute at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
ARCOmadrid, a key contemporary art fair in Spain since 1982, celebrated its 44th edition in 2025 with Wametise: Ideas for an Amazofuturism, featuring the Amazon as its central theme, among other programs. Curated by Denilson Baniwa and María Wills in collaboration with the Institute for Postnatural Studies in Madrid, it will explore new creative forms that merge the human, the natural, and the spiritual.
We also extend our congratulations to the other recipients of the 2025 “A” Awards for Collecting: Fundació Sorigué, Juan Carlos and Tati Maldonado, Fernando Arriola and Yolanda Zugaza, and Álex Ruas Wege.
For more information on ARCOmadrid and its awardees, visit its website.
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