Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC)
In 2025, the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) will support modern and contemporary art curators, directors, and museum professionals residing in the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and their diasporas (residing in countries with emerging and developing economies - Groups C, D, E of this list according to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita by Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) of every State).
About the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) was founded in the 1970s by Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Gustavo A. Cisneros and is dedicated to preserving and promoting the art and culture of Latin America and the Caribbean. Based in Caracas, the Dominican Republic, Madrid, and New York, the CPPC has been led since 2008 by their daughter, Adriana Cisneros de Griffin.
The collection spans five main areas, including 20th-century Latin American geometric abstraction and the Orinoco Collection, which preserves the cultural expressions of Indigenous communities from the Amazon. It also includes works by artists who depicted Latin American landscapes between the 17th and 19th centuries, colonial art from Venezuela and the Caribbean, and contemporary works by Latin American and Caribbean artists.
The CPPC has developed an extensive publishing program, organized nearly 400 exhibitions, lent artworks to more than 196 museums, and donated works to over 20 museums across the Americas and Europe. It also establishes strategic partnerships with universities and cultural institutions to advance research on Latin American art, with a key initiative being the Cisneros Institute at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. In 2025, the CPPC and MoMA launched the first edition of the Cisneros Research Guide, a new bilingual resource designed to preserve and make available curatorial and scholarly work on Latin American and Caribbean art.
A founding supporter of CIMAM’s Travel Grant Program, the CPPC has enabled over 40 curators and museum professionals from 14 Latin American and Caribbean countries to participate in the Annual Conference. In 2025, the CPPC continues this commitment by supporting two participants from the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and their diasporas.