Catherine Petitgas is a London-based collector and art historian specialising in modern and contemporary art and more particularly Latin American art. She chairs the Franco-British Fluxus Art Projects initiative, the Gasworks Triangle Network international artist-in-residence programme and the Tate International Council. She is a member of the board of directors of the Amis du Centre Pompidou and the Guggenheim Collections Council. She was executive editor of Contemporary Art Brazil, Contemporary Art Mexico and Contemporary Art Colombia, published by Thames and Hudson and TransGlobe.
Exhibited artists include: Claudia Andujar (Brazil, 1931); Milena Bonilla (Colombia, 1975); Sol Calero (Venezuela, 1982); Patricia Camet (Peru, 1972); Lygia Clark (Brazil, 1920-1988); Donna Conlon (Panama, 1966); Sandra Gamarra (Peru, 1972); Ximena Garrido-Lecca (Peru, 1980); Anna Bella Geiger (Brazil, 1933); Sonia Gomes (Brazil, 1948); Beatriz González (Colombia, 1938); Sheila Hicks (United States, 1934); Claudia Jaguaribe (Brazil, 1955); Beatriz Milhazes (Brazil, 1961); Maria Nepomuceno (Brazil, 1976); Rivane Neuenschwander (Brazil, 1967); Lucia Nogueira (Brazil, 1950-1998); Lucia Pizzani (Venezuela, 1975); Manuela Ribadaneira (Ecuador, 1966); Mira Schendel (Brazil, 1919-1988); Valeska Soares (Brazil, 1957); and Erika Verzutti (Brazil, 1971).
