Wynnie Mynerva

Wynnie Mynerva is an artist whose work spans installation, performance, sculpture, and primarily painting. She graduated from the Escuela Nacional Autónoma de Bellas Artes del Perú and studied Art History at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Her projects are an extension of her body—an erotic and synthetic field of plastic exploration. Her pieces are both pictorial and performative. Pigment on canvas and plastic operates on the same level as the incisions she chooses to make on her body: both are technologies aimed at disrupting the normative truth of sex and gender.

Her most recent solo exhibitions include The Sweet Nectar of Your Blood at Mayoral (Barcelona, Spain), My Weaponized Body at Gathering (London, UK), Presagio at Fondazione Memmo (Rome, Italy), The Original Riot at the New Museum (New York, USA), and A Garden of Earthly Delights at the Museo Amano (Lima, Peru). She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, such as MALI Colecciones. Adquisiciones y donaciones (2019 – 2023), Museo de Arte de Lima; Territorios: Arte Contemporáneo Latinoamericano en la Colección Jorge M. Pérez at the Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía; Tierra de Nadie at Ill Posto (2023); Restraint at Sargent’s Daughters; and Bodies of Resistance at Pedro Cera, among others.

She has been a finalist for several awards, including Pasaporte para un Artista (2020), the Banco Central de Reserva Painting Contest (2019 and 2020), the Contemporary Art Award (2019 and 2020), the Visual Arts Award Salon, and the National Visual Arts Meeting of Trujillo (2018). In 2024, she was selected to participate in the Rijksakademie residency program, where she is currently pursuing her studies.