PAMELA CEVALLOS (Quito, 1984)

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Pamela Cevallos is a visual artist, anthropologist, and curator based in Quito. Her practice moves between contemporary art and ethnographic research to investigate how the past is constructed, contested, and put into circulation. She works across installation, video, painting, drawing, and collaborative processes, engaging with artisanal knowledge, museum collections, and archives to ask who has the authority to speak about heritage and who has been systematically silenced. Since 2015, her work has been rooted in an ongoing collaboration with the community of La Pila, Manabí, where artisans have produced ceramic replicas of archaeological objects for generations. In 2017, she initiated, together with the community, the Museo Histórico y Artesanal La Pila, a community-led institution centered on local memory and craft knowledge.

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Recent exhibitions include Corrientes de Restitución: Abolir o Museu, Hangar, Lisbon (2025); Unarchive the Museum, Denison Museum, Ohio (2024); Xiulant el temps, Ethnological and World Cultures Museum, Barcelona (2024); the 22nd Sesc_Videobrasil Biennial, São Paulo (2023); Replicas and Reunions, Gardiner Museum, Toronto (2022); the 15th and 14th Cuenca Biennials (2021, 2019); and Lost and Found, Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore (2019). Her work is held in the collection of the National Museum of Ecuador. She received the Paris Prize at the 15th Cuenca Biennial (2021) and the Mariano Aguilera Prize (2017). Recent residencies include SOMA Summer, Mexico City (2025); Delfina Foundation, London (2024); Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2022); and MeetFactory, Prague (2018).

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She has written extensively on heritage, collecting practices, and contemporary art. She coordinates the Ecuadorian node of Beyond Restitution: Appropriation, Replica, Life and Display of Colonial Objects in Latin America (BEYOND), an international research project led by Roger Sansi at the University of Barcelona (2025–2029). Her curatorial projects include the anthological exhibition of Pablo Barriga (2016) and Amarillo, azul y roto. Años 90: arte y crisis en Ecuador (2019), both at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito.

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Cevallos is a PhD candidate in Society and Culture at the University of Barcelona and Associate Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.​​​