Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento
Email: sergio_sarmiento|at|clancco.com
Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento is an artist who practices art law. He is interested in the relationship between contemporary art and law, with a primary focus on copyright, moral rights, free speech, deaccessioning, and nonprofit arts organizations. He currently practices out of his law office, The Law Office of Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento, and teaches contemporary art and law at Fordham Law School. He received his BA in Art from the University of Texas-El Paso and an MFA in Art from the California Institute of the Arts. He was a Van Lier Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program in Studio Art in 1997-98, and received his J.D. from Cornell Law School in 2006.
Sarmiento is a member of the Art Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association and serves on the advisory board for three nonprofits, Denniston Hill Artists Residency, The Nietzsche Circle and The Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance. From 2006 to 2012, he was Director of Education and Associate Director for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in New York City, where he advised and represented visual and performing artists and arts organizations. In 2010, Sarmiento founded The Art & Law Program, the first residency of its kind, as well as the Law School for Visual Artists.
His legal experience includes advising artists, galleries, and arts organizations on matters involving copyright, trademarks, moral rights, free speech, and artist-gallery disputes. He has recently worked on an important appeal under the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 on behalf of the Swiss installation artist Christoph Büchel in the artist’s highly-publicized dispute with the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. He has also co-written amicus briefs for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court regarding another high-profile moral rights case, Chapman Kelley vs. Chicago Park District, in support of artist Chapman Kelley.
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