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= Nilda Peraza =

Nilda Peraza is an art historian, art critic and curator. In 1975, along with the nonprofit Friends of Puerto Rico, as well as Puerto Rican activists Jack Agüeros, Luis Cancel, she co-founded Cayman Gallery, which would later be converted into the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art (MoCHA) under her guidance. Peraza was the Director of MoCHA in 1990, the year it co-organized the blockbuster exhibition "The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s" in coordination with the New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Just as the Cayman Gallery did, MoCHA was a pioneer in showing work by Latin American and Caribbean artists who are well known today.