Verónica Muñoz-Nájar Luque is a curator and art historian specializing in colonial and viceregal art of the Spanish Americas, with a particular focus on South America. Her work moves between scholarship and practice, from archival research and writing to exhibition development and collections management. Her exhibitions and editorial projects are shaped by a commitment to collaboration, accessibility, and dialogue across disciplines.

She is Associate Curator of Art of the Spanish Americas at the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation, where she also manages the foundation’s fellowshipS program. Her current project, Spectacles of Power and Faith: Colonial South American Art from the Thoma Foundation, opens at the Meadows Museum in 2026 and brings together painting and devotional imagery from the Andes.

From Arequipa, Peru, Verónica has lived and trained across Vilnius, Madrid, Barcelona, New York, and the San Francisco Bay Area — a transnational path that shapes how she reads the circulation of images, objects, and ideas across the Atlantic world. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and a B.A. from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Before joining the Thoma Foundation, she worked at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museo de Arte de Lima.