Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Victoria Sancho Lobis is the Prince Trust Associate Curator at the Art Institute of Chicago. She is an expert in early modern European art and has been leading the museum’s efforts to develop exhibitions and strategize collection development in the field of colonial Latin American art. She organized A Voyage to South America: Andean Art in the Spanish Empire (2015), the Art Institute’s first presentation of Latin American paintings from the time of Spanish rule, and she is currently planning a large-scale, international loan exhibition featuring colonial Latin American paintings, textiles, and decorative arts.

Lobis joined the curatorial staff of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2013. Before the Art Institute, Lobis worked for four years as the inaugural curator of the print collection at the University of San Diego. Her current research engages artistic training in Europe and colonial Latin America as well as the history of collecting. Among her curatorial and administrative responsibilities, Lobis directs the Art Institute’s Latin American initiative as it engages the art of the viceregal period.

In addition to her curatorial work, Lobis has given art history courses at Columbia University, New York University, the University of San Diego, Claremont McKenna College, and the University of Chicago.

Lobis received her B.A. from Yale College, her M.A. from Williams College, and her Ph.D. from Columbia University, where she wrote her dissertation on workshop practice in the time of Peter Paul Rubens.

Dr. Lobis' Athenaeum talk is co-sponsored by the Culture and History of the Americas grant, provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

View Video: YouTube with Victoria Sancho Lobis