Marcela López Sastre: Salta

Marcela López Sastre (Salta, 1975) finished secondary school in New York. She studied Social Communications at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, where she undertook several self-managed projects related to the visual arts. She studied photography and worked in an art gallery in Barcelona between 2001 and 2003. In 2008, she received the Híbrido y Puro Award for the 10th anniversary of the Centro Cultural España Córdoba (CCEC) and was appointed curator of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC) of Salta, where she worked until 2015. She is part of the 2018 cohort of the PhD in Arts at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, where she is currently finishing her thesis on artistic and curatorial practices in self-managed projects. She has been director of the Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes de Salta since 2019.