Ms Lassla Esquivel Durand

Lassla Esquivel is a UK-based art historian, researcher and curator. She is a specialist in contemporary art and the art market. Her expertise and research interests are currently focused in emerging markets, while investigating private museums' models and its role within the art market. Also, she studies and writes about the art market structures and its transition into the digital environments, technology and innovation. She is also interested in championing female artists and their visibility across the art world and its market. 

Her latest research has been published by Routledge in the anthology: Art Museums of Latin America Structuring Representation. She is undertaking a PhD at the University of Leeds with the project: The Role of Private Collections Becoming Public in Emerging Markets. Case Studies: Júmex Museum and CIAC Foundation (Mexico). 

She has taught in different institutions postgraduate programmes such as Curatorial Practices, Art Market Structures and Cultural Management at IESA arts and culture in Paris; she was tutor and lecturer of the specialisation Art Business at the MSc programme Art, Law and Business at Christie's Education in London and she led the first professionalisation course of Curatorial Studies at Art and Skills Institute (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

In 2016 she founded Periferia Projects, a curatorial platform that links emerging markets in Latin America with the UK and Europe in order to promote collaborations between galleries, artists and institutions. She has curated and produced exhibitions in Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Europe and the UK.