Writer, researcher, and Chief Curator of TEOR/éTica in Costa Rica, López studies collaborative dynamics and re-articulations of feminist art and culture in recent decades. He is co-founder of Bisagra, an independent space active in Lima. In 2016, he received the ICI - Independent Vision Curatorial Award. He has curated several exhibitions, among others: The Words of Others: León Ferrari and Rhetoric in Times of War, Los Angeles REDCAT; Equilibrio y Colapso, Patricia Belli. Works from 1986-2016, TEOR/éTica, San José and Fundación Ortiz Gurdian, Managua; Teresa Burga. Estructuras de aire, MALBA, Buenos Aires; Dios es marica in the 31st São Paulo Biennial; Un Cuerpo Ambulante. Sergio Zevallos en el Grupo Chaclacayo. 1982-1994, Museo de Arte de Lima MALI and Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart; Pulso Alterado. Intensidades en la colección del MUAC y sus Colecciones Asociadas, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo MUAC/UNAM, Mexico City; Perder la Forma Humana. Una imagen sísmica de los años 80 en América Latina, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.

His writing has been published in journals such as Afterall, e-flux, ramona, Art in America, Art Journal, Journal of Visual Culture, Manifesta Journal, Documents of Contemporary Art Whitechapel Gallery, and MIT Press. He recently published Robar la historia. Contrarrelatos y prácticas de oposición; The Words of Others: León Ferrari and Rhetoric in Times of War, and Agítese antes de usar. Desplazamientos educativos, sociales y artísticos en América Latina. López lives and Works in San José, Costa Rica.