Natalia Majluf

Natalia Majluf Brahim (born 1967) is a Peruvian curator and historian. She was head curator of the Lima Art Museum from 1995 to 2001, before serving as director from 2002 until 2018. She was a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and the 2018-2019 Simón Bolívar Professor of Latin-American Studies, and wrote the 2022 book Inventing Indigenism. Biography Majluf was born in 1967 in Lima, to a Palestinian-Peruvian family. She was educated at San Silvestre School.

Majluf joined the Lima Art Museum (MALI) in 1988. In 1995, she became the first head curator of the museum, holding the position until 2001. As director, she supervised a large repertoire of works and exhibitions in the field of Peruvian art. She was a University of Cambridge Centre of Latin American Studies (CLAS) Visiting Fellow in 2007. In 2011, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in History.

In 2018, Majluf stepped down as director of MALI to serve as Simón Bolívar Professor of Latin-American Studies at the CLAS, a position she held until the next year. She continued to operate as director of MALI's "Historias. Arte y cultura del Perú" resource page even after leaving MALI.

Majluf's historical research is centered around Latin American art (particularly Peruvian art) and post-colonial issues in visual art. it won the 2023 Association for Latin American Art Book Award. She worked for the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru's art history graduate program.