This major research paper explores contemporary Peruvian art through a decolonial lens to examine how memory and identity are central to histories of colonial oppression and displacement. Drawing on concepts of multiple contemporaneities, creative adaptations, and alternative modernities, I focus on the work of two contemporary Peruvian artists, Dora Panduro Silvano and Claudia Martinez Garay, to explore how each artist embeds in their practice the cultural transmission of memory as distinct sites of resistance and resilience in response to histories of colonialism and state violence. I analyse how the Andean concept of pacha (non-linear space-time) and mestiza identity are central to the hybrid qualities of Claudia Martinez Garay’s artworks, and how Amazonian Indigenous cosmologies are central to Dora Panduro Silvano's artistic practice. The paper concludes with a discussion of how my own positionality as a displaced Indigenous-Peruvian, adopted as a baby and raised in Canada, led to the themes and artists explored in this paper.