Jury 2025
Ángela López Ruiz
Visual Artist, Researcher & Curator / 2025 Jury
Bio
Ángela López Ruiz (b. 1963, Montevideo, Uruguay) is a visual artist, researcher, and curator with a Master’s in Latin American Studies and a degree in Visual Arts from UdelaR. Her work focuses on experimental cinema and decolonial practices.
She has participated in ISMO ISMO ISMO: Experimental Cinema in Latin America at the Los Angeles Film Forum for Pacific Standard Time LA/LA by the Getty Foundation. Her project Archaeology of the Image was exhibited at the 29th São Paulo Biennial, NYU’s Orphan Film Symposium, and Working Documents in Barcelona.
As a curator, she has organized Women Experimentalists in Latin America (Hammer Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, Cine Tonalá, 2017), Pioneers of Action Art (Montevideo, 2016), Southern Latitude (Filmmakers Coop, 2016), and Anthology of Video Performance in Uruguay (El Museo del Barrio, 2008). She co-founded Focos de Acción, presented at the 30th São Paulo Biennial (2012) and the 9th Biennial of Salto (2011).
In 2019, she co-published La Era Plasteozoica with Victoria Thomen, presenting it at the Madrid Book Fair, Cuesta Libros, and Centro León. Recently, she participated in Experimental Loop 2023 in New York, the Air Digital exhibition at the Alliance Française in Santo Domingo, and closed the year with her solo show Hablando en Serie at Bodden Art Gallery.
Alexis Mendoza
NYLAAT Executive Director / 2025 Jury
Bio
Alexis Mendoza (b. 1972, Cuba) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and independent curator based in New York City. His work spans painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, and installation, often exploring the transition and layering of colors as metaphors for Afro-Cuban customs, rituals, and traditions.
He has exhibited in museums and galleries across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, England, France, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. His work has been featured in Cuban Art News, Sing for Hope, Artnet, JCAST, HFFNY, and Manhattan Times.
Mendoza is co-founder and co-creator of The Bronx Latin American Art Biennial, which in 2019 expanded into the New York Latin American Art Triennial, addressing themes such as migration, women’s rights, and social justice while celebrating Hispanic heritage.
Leonardo González
Cultural Producer & Contemporary Art Curator / 2025 Jury
Bio
Leonardo González (b. 1982, Tegucigalpa, Honduras) is a curator, cultural producer, and co-founder of LL Proyectos, a contemporary art platform. Active since 2003, his work fosters international visibility for Latin American artists.
A graduate of the National School of Fine Arts in Comayagüela and a degree holder in Social Communication, González has participated in artist residencies in Barcelona, Valencia, Miami, and New York. His curatorial projects have been showcased in the Venice Biennale (56th International Art Exhibition) and institutions across the United States, Switzerland, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Spain, Cuba, Ecuador, Chile, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Morocco, Canada, Belize, and El Salvador.
His curatorial practice bridges contemporary artistic production with critical discourse, redefining cultural management in Latin America.
María Belén Moncayo
AANME Archive Director & Experimental Film Curator / 2025 Jury
Bio
María Belén Moncayo (b. Quito, Ecuador) is a graphic designer, researcher, and curator specializing in experimental cinema and video art. With over two decades of self-directed study and investigative practice, she has built a career exploring the intersections of film, media, and feminist activism.
She is the Director of the AANME Archive and founder of Malcriada Total Producciones, a feminist platform that supports women affected by gender-based violence. In addition to her curatorial work, she is an editor, translator, and educator through Spanish with Belén.
Moncayo is the author of Ecuador 100: Experimental Audiovisual Artists 1929–2011 and Fax Factory Solá Film, a study of Eduardo Solá Franco’s filmography. Her curatorial and research projects focus on audiovisual preservation, contemporary Latin American visual culture, and gender representation in media.
Naivy Pérez
Visual Artist, Experimental Loop Executive Director & NYLAAT Deputy Director / 2025 Jury
Bio
Naivy Pérez (b. 1986, Cuba) is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and curator based in New York City. Her work examines control structures and individual consciousness, integrating art, technology, and experiential processes.
She holds a Gold Diploma in Visual Arts from the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) in Havana and studied at the Provincial Academy of Visual Arts “Raúl Corrales” and “Raúl Martínez.” She was awarded a prestigious technology and robotics scholarship at Kungliga Konsthögskolan in Stockholm, Sweden, which deeply influenced her experimental approach.
Pérez is the Founder and Executive Director of the Experimental Loop International Video Art Festival and Deputy Director of the New York Latin American Art Triennial (NYLAAT). She has curated major exhibitions and contributed to the Tenth Havana Biennial, reinforcing her expertise in global, interdisciplinary curatorial projects.
Néstor Prieto Martínez
Curator & Cultural Manager / 2025 Jury
Bio
Néstor Prieto Martínez (b. 1982, Ourense, Spain) is a curator and cultural manager based in Madrid. He is a founding member of Art House Madrid, a cultural management company dedicated to artistic internationalization.
In 2012, he and Francisco Brives transformed a 19th-century railway warehouse into a contemporary arts center integrating memory and avant-garde. In 2016, it became a museum and joined the ICOM network. Two years later, they launched Zapadores Ciudad del Arte, a 23,000-square-meter cultural complex housing a permanent collection of over 300 large-format works, temporary exhibitions, artist residencies, and independent galleries.
In 2019, they expanded into rural artistic development with Kárstica Espacio de Creación in Cuenca, converting an early 20th-century train station into an artist residency and eco-social research hub.
Pancho López
Independent Curator & Performance Art Researcher, Experimental Loop Chief Curator / 2025 Jury
Bio
Pancho López (b. 1972, Mexico City) is a curator, researcher, and cultural manager specializing in performance art. He studied Journalism at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of UNAM and has played a key role in shaping Mexico’s performance art scene.
For eleven years, he led the Performance Art Department at the Chopo University Museum, coordinating festivals such as Performagia, Transmuted, and Extra!. He directed the EJECT International Video Performance Festival at Ex Teresa Arte Actual and Laboratorio Arte Alameda. López has presented his work in performance festivals across Colombia, Chile, Canada, Uruguay, Brazil, Germany, Poland, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, China, Spain, Portugal, Cuba, Finland, El Salvador, and the United States.
He is the founder of perfoREDmx, the Mexican Performance Network, and collaborates with the Central American Art Network (RACA). His book Central America in Action examines performance art in the region and was published by the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MADC) in Costa Rica, Centro Cultural España, RACA, and La Neomudéjar Museum.