Iris Lam Chen
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22 September 1989
Iris Lam Chen | |
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| Born | Iris Lam Chen 22 September 1989 |
| Education | University of Costa Rica |
| Occupations | Arts manager and curator |
| Years active | 2015-currently |
| Known for | Centro Cultural de España |
Iris Lam Chen (San José, 22 September 1989) is a Chinese-Costa Rican arts manager and curator known for her work in visual arts project management at the Cultural Center of Spain in Costa Rica, y artistic strategy in Global Metro Art (GMA), organization in which she is director and founder. Her work emphasizes themes related to feminism, the LGBTIQ+ community, migration, strategy, the artistic market, and inter-institutional alliances between public, private, independent and academic entities.[1][2][3]
Iris Lam is the cultural manager of the Cultural Center of Spain in Costa Rica, where she coordinates all the projects and exhibitions of visual arts, music and experimental arts with technology, among which the International Artist Residency program stands out. Much of his work is focused on generating alliances and inter-institutional projects of a public-private, national and international nature, for example with the La Neomudéjar Museum (Spain), MAV Biennial (Spain), espacio/C (Guatemala), Quorum Cultural Laboratory (Panama), Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (Costa Rica), La Revuelta (Guatemala), Plataforma Caníbal (Colombia), Ensayo y Error (El Salvador), Y.ES Contemporary, (El Salvador), Red de Arte del Centro de América (GUA), Building Bridges Art Exchange (USA), NYLAAT (USA), perfoREDmx (MEX), LL Proyectos (Honduras), National Gallery (Costa Rica), Cartago Municipal Museum (Costa Rica), Women's Museum (Costa Rica), Women Watching Women (Spain), among others.[1][2]
Since 2018, at the Cultural Center of Spain in Costa Rica, she has coordinated the International Artists Residency project, which seeks to strengthen contemporary artistic creation and production, at the same time connecting and exchanging artists from different regions.[4] Among the exchanges, she carries out residences with the La Neomudéjar Museum in Spain, Plataforma Caníbal in Colombia and with the Network of Cultural Centers of Spain in Central America and the Caribbean.[5] She also manages the Creative Processes Experimentation Program that seeks to promote new alternative forms of research in various artistic disciplines, promoting an exchange of knowledge of cultural practices between Central American regions. As part of this program, she leads the programming and curatorship of the exhibitions that are given annually both in the halls of the Cultural Center of Spain in Costa Rica and those that are carried out internationally in alliance with other institutions, such as Reactivando Videografías together with the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, a video art exhibition of which she is co-curator.[6] In the same institution, she also seeks to facilitate the conditions to promote a critical approach to contemporary cultural practices, encouraging participation and generating a permanent dialogue between creators, cultural researchers and the diversity of audiences, through the Cultural Contemporary Practices Mediation Program.[7]
On the other hand, in her work at Global Metro Art, she is in charge of the management, consultancy, production and organization of independent and private cultural projects, in which her latest project stands out, the Human Suit Cultural Circuit, declared of national cultural interest in Costa Rica.[3] Related to this, she produced the Costa Rican participation in the artistic exchange program between China, Latin America and the Caribbean of the Ministry of Culture of China (2021), the Tijuana International Triennale of Pictoric Art in Mexico (2024), the SACO Contemporary Art Biennial in Chile (2021) at the Historic Pier of Antofagasta, at the Camagüey International Video Art Festival (2021) at the headquarters of the Circuit for the Exhibition and Development of New Media, the VII Festival of Latin American and Caribbean Art in China (2019) at the Beijing World Art Museum, the Artist-in-Residence for the 6th Season of Beijing Latin American Art (2019) at the Hanwei International Arts Center, and the Official Issue of Envelopes and Stamps China Post 70th Anniversary of the Republic of China (2019) and Beijing International Art Biennale (2017) commemorative at the National Art Museum of China.[2][8][1]
She has been a professor of Cultural Management at the University of Costa Rica with courses related to cultural marketing and strategy. UCR is the only university in Latin America that has a bachelor's degree in cultural management. At UCR she is also a researcher on genealogy and Chinese migration in Costa Rica.[2][9][10]