Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
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| Born |
Patricia Phelps Caracas, Venezuela |
| Nationality | Venezuelan |
| Other names | Patty Cisneros |
| Alma mater | Wheaton College |
| Occupation | Art Collector Philanthropist |
| Years active | 1970s-present |
| Organization | Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros |
| Spouse(s) | Gustavo Cisneros |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Miriam Louise Parker William Walther Phelps |
| Relatives |
William H. Phelps Jr. (grandfather) William H. Phelps Sr. (great grandfather) |
| Website | ColecciónCisneros |
Patricia "Patty" Phelps de Cisneros is a Venezuelan art collector and philanthropist who focuses on Latin American modernist and contemporary art from Brazil, Venezuela, and the Río de la Plata region of Argentina and Uruguay. Since the 1970s Cisneros has supported education and the arts, with a particular focus on Latin America. Along with her husband, Gustavo A. Cisneros, she founded the New York City and Caracas-based Fundación Cisneros. In the 1990s the Fundación’s primary art-related program became the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. In 2016, Cisneros donated 102 modern and contemporary artworks from the 1940s to 1990s to the Museum of Modern Art, establishing the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America at MoMA.
Cisneros was born in Venezuela to mother, Miriam Louise Parker, and father, William Walther Phelps, a businessman. Her paternal great-grandfather was a noted businessman and ornithologist, William H. Phelps, Sr.. In 1953, William Henry Phelps and his son William H. Phelps Jr. started the first radio station in Venezuela, Radio Caracas Televisión Internacional (RCTV Internacional).
Cisneros received a BA in Philosophy from Wheaton College, Massachusetts, where she studied the educational philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead.
In 2003, Cisneros was awarded an honorary degree, an Honoris Causa degree in Fine Arts, from Wheaton College.
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