Clara Galperin

Clara Galperin

Emmanuel College 
Email: cg887@cam.ac.uk 
Supervisor: Dr Carlos Fonseca 

Biography

I was born in Hong Kong, raised in Argentina, and completed my higher education in the United States. I hold a BA and MA in Art History from Stanford University, as well as a second BA in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, graduating with the Christopher Meyer Award for Art History and the Stanford Alumni Association Award for Excellence.

Alongside my academic research, I have held positions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,  the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, Christie’s, Incubator Art Projects, and advise private collections across Europe and the Americas.

Research

My research examines the reconfiguration of artistic practice in Argentina following the disbandment of collective avant-garde movements at the end of the 1960s, focusing on the resurgence of realist painting after 1975. Rather than treating this shift as a necessary retreat or regression, the project reconsiders prevailing interpretations of the return to painting, examining how the medium was reactivated as a way of confronting the changing logics of figuration, negotiating visibility, and sustaining artistic agency in the years surrounding the military dictatorship. Through sustained attention to artworks, exhibitions, and critical debates, the project situates these developments within broader transformations in the Argentine cultural field and the afterlives of the avant-garde.