Lucero Del Castillo Ames (1981) es una artista que vive y trabaja en Lima.
Su trabajo se concentra en las dinámicas entre identidad, género y poder generadas por las condiciones socioeconómicas y el consumo cultural. Trabajó como fotoperiodista y editora gráfica durante doce años y de esa relación con las imágenes emerge su interés por los discursos de verdad. Su obra rastrea diversos archivos haciendo uso de la fotografía, el video y el texto.
Tiene un Magíster en Antropología por la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2021) y otro en Fotografía Contemporánea por el Centro de la Imagen (2018). Fue elegida como artista residente de Light Work (AIRs) 2025, y finalista del PHmuseum Women Photographers Grant 2018. Publicó, en coautoría con Víctor Vich, el fotolibro Contrapunto y dirigió el cortometraje El principio de lo terrible.
Ha participado en exposiciones en Perú, Reino Unido y Francia y es docente en la PUCP y UPC.
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Lucero Del Castillo Ames (1981) is an artist who lives and works in Lima.
Her work focuses on the dynamics between identity, gender, and power generated by socioeconomic conditions and cultural consumption. She worked as a photojournalist and graphic editor for twelve years, and it was from this relationship with images that her interest in discourses of truth emerged. Her work traces various archives using photography, video, and text.
She holds a Master's degree in Anthropology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (2021) and another in Contemporary Photography from the Centro de la Imagen (2018). She was selected as an artist-in-residence at Light Work (AIRs) 2025 and was a finalist for the PHmuseum Women Photographers Grant 2018. She co-authored the photobook Contrapunto with Víctor Vich and directed the short film The beginning of terror.
She has participated in exhibitions in Peru, the United Kingdom and France and is a university professor at PUCP and UPC.
SOLO SHOWS
2025 El club de la Unión, Special Collections in the Albert Sloman Library at the University of Essex.
2023 El principio de lo terrible, Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC-Lima) and Lugar de la Memoria, la Tolerancia y la Inclusión Social (LUM), Lima/Peru
COLLECTIVE SHOWS
2024 El principio de lo terrible, Festival de Cine Al Este
2023 Contrapunto, L'Imaginaire gallery - Alianza Francesa, Lima/Peru
Bipersonal: Lucero Del Castillo and Víctor Vich
2023 Contrapunto (photobook), Athens Art Book Fair
2023 Contrapunto (photobook), Turma Buenos Aires/Argentina
2023 Contrapunto (photobook), Hay Festival Arequipa/Peru
2022 1922-2022 Vusco Volvvver. 77 artistas con Trilce, PLAM, Lima/Peru
2018 Paracosmos - Family of No Man, Cosmos, Arles/France
2018 Paracosmos - Transterritorialidades, Ojo Ajeno Gallery, Lima/Peru
RECOGNITIONS
2024 2025 Light Work Artist-in-Residence (AIRs)
2024 Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
FAI Award
2023 Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
FAI Award
2022 Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Cap-Creación Award
2022 Ministry of Culture of Peru
Winner of the Economic Stimulus in Visual Arts
2018 Photograhic Museum of Humanity
Finalist Phmuseum 2018 Women Photographers Grant
2018. Ministry of Culture of Peru
Winner of the Economic Stimulus for Creative Projects in Children's and Young Adult Literature for the photobook "Why don't the stars fall? and more questions that
curious girls ask themselves"
COLLECTIONS
Jan Mulder collection
David Solo collection