Patricia Esquivias is a Venezuelan-born Spanish artist [1] who works primarily with video. [2] She was born in 1979 in Caracas. [3] Esquivias received her BA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London in 2001 and her MFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2007. [3] Esquivias' work is often characterized as a form of story telling, [2] and Esquivias often acts as narrator, using her own voice as narration in her videos. [1] [4] Many of Esquivias' videos center around themes of history and memory. [2]
Esquivias has had shows in Madrid [5] Los Angeles, [3] New York City, [1] Marrakech and other cities around the world. Her work is in the collection of the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid.
The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía is Spain's national museum of 20th-century art. The museum was officially inaugurated on September 10, 1990, and is named for Queen Sofía. It is located in Madrid, near the Atocha train and metro stations, at the southern end of the so-called Golden Triangle of Art.
Rosemarie Trockel is a German conceptual artist. She has made drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos and installations, and has worked in mixed media. From 1985 she made pictures using knitting-machines. She is a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Manolo Millares was a Spanish painter.
Octavio Zaya is an art critic and curator, born in Las Palmas, and living in New York City since 1978. He is Director of Atlántica, a bilingual quarterly magazine published by CAAM ; he is Curator at Large and Advisor of MUSAC MUSAC](León, Spain);and a member of the Advisory Board of Performa. He is on the Editorial Board of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art and a NY correspondent for Flash Art. He was one of the curators of, as part of the group directed by Okwui Enwezor. He was also one of the curators of the first and second (1995 and 1997. The large list of exhibitions he has curated include In/Sight, African Photographers 1940 to the Present (Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1997, and Versiones del Sur. Latinoamerica at Centro de Arte Reina Sofia [. He was one of the curators of Fresh Cream, has authored more than a dozen books on artists, and has contributed to numerous other books and catalogues. He recently curated important exhibitions of the works of Cerith Wyn Evans and Paul Pfeiffer at MUSAC.
Patty Chang is an American performance artist and film director living and working in Los Angeles, California. Originally trained as a painter, Chang received her Bachelor of Arts at the University of California, San Diego. It wasn't until she moved to New York that she became involved with the performance art scene.
Juan Uslé is a contemporary Spanish painter. His work varies between abstraction and figurative representation. In 2002 he received the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas, a national arts prize awarded by the Ministerio de Cultura of Spain. He works both in New York City and in Saro in Cantabria.
Jaime Davidovich was an Argentine-American conceptual artist and television-art pioneer. His innovative artworks and art-making activities produced several distinct professional reputations including painter, installation artist, video artist, Public-access television cable TV producer, activist, and non-profit organizer. He is the creator of legendary downtown Manhattan cable television program The Live! Show (1979–1984). Billed as "the variety show of the avant-garde", The Live! Show was an eclectic half-hour of live, interactive artistic entertainment inspired by the Dada performance club Cabaret Voltaire and the anarchic humor of American television comedian Ernie Kovacs.
Daniel García Andújar is a visual media artist, activist and art theorist from Spain. He lives and works in Barcelona. His work has been exhibited widely, including Manifesta 4, the Venice Biennale and documenta 14 Athens, Kassel. He has directed numerous workshops for artists and social collectives worldwide.
Eusebio Sempere Juan was a Spanish sculptor, painter and graphic artist whose abstract geometric works make him the most representative artist of the Kinetic art movement in Spain and one of Spain's foremost artists. His use of repetition of line and mastery of color to manipulate the way light plays on the surface give depth to his pictorial compositions.
Leandro Katz is an Argentine-born writer, visual artist and filmmaker known primarily for his films and photographic installations. His works include long-term, multi-media projects that delve into Latin American history through a combination of scholarly research, anthropology, photography, moving images and printed texts.
Antoni Miralda is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist.
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Patricia "Patty" Phelps de Cisneros is a Venezuelan born, Dominican citizen, 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.
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) is a privately held Latin American art organization based in Venezuela and New York City founded by Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Gustavo Cisneros.
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Carlos María "Rhod" Rothfuss was a Uruguayan-Argentine artist who specialized in painting and sculpture. He was considered a key theoretician for the development of the concrete art movement in Argentina in the 1940s and was a founding member of the international Latin American abstract art movement, Grupo Madí.
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