Victoria Lyall

Victoria Isabel Lyall is the Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator, Art of the Ancient Americas at the Denver Art Museum. Her exhibitions and publications focus on themes of translation, narrativity, and the continued resonance of Ancient American art for contemporary artists. She has curated or co-curated numerous projects including most recently, Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche and ReVisión: Art in the Americas. In 2021 she redesigned Denver’s extraordinary Ancient Americas collection. Lyall has held positions at San Francisco State University and LACMA, where she participated in the numerous exhibitions from 2004-2014. Her publications include El Mar Caribe: An American Mediterranean; Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche (2022 ALAA Thoma Award for Exhibition Catalogue); ReVisión: A New Look at Art in the Americas; Murals of the Americas; Children of the Plumed Serpent: The Legacy of Quetzalcoatl, and the forthcoming Collecting the Other Americas: Art of the Ancient Americas in U.S. Art Museums with Ellen Hoobler.

Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Lyall grew up in Miami. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from UCLA, an M.A. from Tulane University, and a B.A. in Anthropology and History of Art from Yale University.