Plural Domains: Selected Works from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Collection

Elena Damiani was born in 1979 in Lima, Peru, where she currently lives and works.

Damiani has participated in multiple international biennales, including the Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2023), Cuenca Biennial (2018, 2016), Gwangju Biennale (2016), Venice Biennale, Vienna Biennale and IV Poly/Graphic Triennial (all 2015), Bienal de la Imagen y Movimiento (2014), Mercosul Biennial (2013).

Solo exhibitions include MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Lima (2022), Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (2017), Museo Amparo, Puebla (2016), MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City (2015). Her work has been exhibited at the MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, Heide MoMA, Melbourne and ! MACO Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (all in 2023), C3A, Cordoba and Museo de Arte Zapopan, Guadalajara (both 2022), Harn Museum of Art, Florida and A4 Art Museum, Chengdu (both 2021), Dhaka Art Summit, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago and MOCO Montpellier Contemporain (all in 2020), Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon and Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Roma (both 2019), Skissernas Museum, Lund, (2017), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, and MOCAD Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (both 2015). She was awarded the Grants & Commissions Program, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation CIFO (2016) and the commission for the David Rockefeller Atrium, Americas Society, New York (2014).

Her work is represented in the collections of MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York; MALI Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Miami; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco and Paris, Cisneros Fontanals ArtFoundation, Miami; Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunisi; Schoepflin Foundation, Lorrach and FOLAFototeca Latinoamericana, Buenos Aires.