Wynnie Mynerva
Wynnie Mynerva is an artist whose work spans installation, performance, sculpture and primarily painting. They graduated from the Escuela Nacional Autónoma de Bellas Artes del Perú and studied Art History at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Their projects are an extension of their body—an erotic and synthetic field of plastic exploration. Their pieces are both pictorial and performative. Pigment on canvas and plastic operates on the same level as the incisions they choose to make on their body: both are technologies aimed at disrupting the normative truth of sex and gender.
Their most recent solo exhibitions include The Sweet Nectar of Your Blood at Mayoral (Barcelona, Spain), My Weaponized Body at Gathering (London, UK), Presagio at Fondazione Memmo (Rome, Italy), The Original Riot at the New Museum (New York, USA), and A Garden of Earthly Delights at the Museo Amano (Lima, Peru). They have also participated in numerous group exhibitions, such as MALI Colecciones. Adquisiciones y donaciones (2019–2023), Museo de Arte de Lima; Territorios: Arte Contemporáneo Latinoamericano en la Colección Jorge M. Pérez at the Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía; Tierra de Nadie at Ill Posto; Restraint at Sargent’s Daughters; and Bodies of Resistance at Pedro Cera; among others.
They have been a finalist for several awards, including Pasaporte para un Artista (2020), the Banco Central de Reserva Painting Contest (2019 and 2020), the Contemporary Art Award (2019 and 2020), the Visual Arts Award Salon, and the National Visual Arts Meeting of Trujillo (2018). In 2024, they were selected to participate in the Rijksakademie residency program, where they are currently pursuing their studies.
b. 1992, Lima, Peru
Lives and works between Berlin, Germany and Lima, Peru
Solo and Group Exhibitions
2026
Volveré Y Seré Milliones, Société, Berlin, Germany
2025
Dust of Love, Société, Berlin, Germany Vein Lines, Kunstplatform LINK, Zwolle, the Netherlands States of Being, Société x Hauser & Wirth, Berlin, Germany Rijksakademie Open Studios, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands El Dulce Néctar de tu Sangre, Galeria Mayoral, Barcelona, Spain Les Apparitions, Reiffers Art Initiatives, Paris, France I Sought My Soul, Zabludowicz Collection, Berlin, Germany Fall I, medianoche0, Granada, Spain
2024
My Weaponised Body, Gathering, London, UK
Presagio, Fondazione Memmo, Rome, Italy
Tierra de Nadie, II Posto, Santiago de Chile, Chile
2023
The Original Riot, The New Museum, New York, USA
Bone of My Bones, Flesh of My Flesh, Gathering, London, UK
Restraint, Sargent's Daughters, New York, USA
Bodies of Resistance, Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal
2022
Closing to Open, ARCOMadrid, Madrid, Spain
Paradiso, with Maria Abbadon, Proyecto AMIL, Lima, Peru
Desire, Tube Culture Hall, Milan, Italy
Paper, Beers London, London, UK
2021
Closing to Open, Ginsberg Galeria, Lima, Peru
Sweet Castrator, Latchkey Gallery, New York, USA
TRANS11.603, Galeria Studio, Warsaw, Poland
2020
A Garden of Earthly Delights, Museo AMANO, Lima, Peru
Procesos, Centro Cultural, PUCP, Peru
2019
La Cernicería, AMIL, Lima, Peru
Sex Machine, Ginsberg Galeria, Lima, Peru
El Otro Sexo, Fundación Euroidiomas, Lima, Peru
La Cernicería, AMIL, Lima, Peru
SINCRÓNICAS, CIFO ART, Miami, USA
Homenaje a Herman Braun-Vega, CCPUCP, Lima, Peru
2018
Mercado de Arte Contemporaneo 2018, MAC, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Relaciones Peligrosas, Museo Genaro Perez, Córdoba, Argentina
2017
Salon del Premio Nacional de Artes Visuales, Trujillo, Peru
Nuevas Visiones 2017, Galeria ICPNA, Lima, Peru
2016
Enmascara el Contexto, Proyecto AMIL, Lima, Peru
Seres, Galeria Seres, Boulevard de Asia, Lima, Peru
Exposición Contemporánea Pintura Grabado, Escultura 52, Lima, Peru
Gathering Exhibitions
Selected Press
1 May 2026
Ocula includes Wynnie Mynerva's show, Volveré y seré millones, at Société, Berlin in their article, The Top 10 Exhibitions to See Around the World This May
1 May 2026
Wallpaper* includes Wynnie Mynerva's exhibition in Berlin in their article of must-sees during Gallery Weekend Berlin
29 Apr 2026
Dazed features Wynnie Mynerva's upcoming show with Société in their article, 7 artists to have on your radar at Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026
14 Apr 2026
On the occasion of her Gallery Weekend Berlin exhibition at Société, Monopol Magazine interviews Wynnie Mynerva
6 Feb 2026
Wynnie Mynerva is awarded the Fundación Casa Wabi Woman Artist Residency Award 2026