Poeta, artista y cineasta nacida en Santiago de Chile, l948
Estudió en la Escuela de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, l966-l971
Postgrado en la Slade School of Fine Arts, University College, London. l972-73
Reside en Nueva York desde l980.
Premios y Honores
2017 -Invitada a documenta 14, Atenas, Grecia y Kassel, Alemania
2015 -Messenger Lecturer, Cornell University.
2014 -SLAS Spring 2014 Scholar in Residence at The Department of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute, New York.
2013 -Segundo Premio PEN 2013 al mejor libro de poesía en traducción al inglés por su libro Spit Temple, Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuña, edited by Rosa Alcalá.
2011 -Sello de Excelencia, Consejo de las Artes y la Cultura de Chile.
-Premio Fondart (Cultura Inmaterial) por su proyecto
"Tugar Tugar Salir a Buscar el Sentido Perdido", en Caleu, Chile.
2009 -Estelle Lebowitz Visiting Artist-in-Residence at the The Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series of the Institute for Women and Art (IWA) at Rutgers University.
2005 -Phipps Chair in Creative Writing, University of Denver
2004 -Mac Dowell Colony Residency, temporada de verano.
2003 -Bellagio Study Center Residency, RockefelleR Foundation, Italy
2002 -Hedda Sterne Foundation Residency Award
-Pennies from Heaven Award, New York Trust
l999 -The AnonymousWas aWoman Award, New York
l995-96 -The Fund for Poetry Award, New York
-Lee Krasner-Jackson Pollock Award, New York
l992 -Arts International Award, Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund.
l988 -Invitadaa The Art Olympiad, Seoul by the Guggenheim Museum of New York, declinó.
l985 -Human Rights Exile Award, Fund for Free Expression, New York.
l983 -LINE II Award para el libro Precario/Precarious, New York.
l972 -British Council Scholarship in the United Kingdom.
Muestras de arte individuales
2017 -Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, traveling to the ICA, Philadelphia, Berkeley Art Museum, The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle.
2015 -NO QUIPU, NO BOOK, Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, Wi, U.S.A.
-DIANNA FRID AND CECILIA VICUÑA: A TEXTILE EXHIBITION, Poetry Foundation, Chicago, U.S.A.
2014 -Artists for Democracy: El Archivo de Cecilia Vicuña, Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, y Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.
2013 -Cecilia Vicuña, England & Co, London.
-Les Immémoriales, Frac Lorraine, Metz, France
2012 -Aural, Galería Patricia Ready, Santiago, Chile.
2009 -Water Writing: Anthological Exhibition, 1966-2009, Institute for Women & Art, Rutgers University, U.S.A.
2009 -La Noche de las Especies, El Gran Vidrio, Valparaíso, Chile
2008- Parti Si Pasión, Metales Pesados, Santiago Chile
2007 -Otoño, Reconstrucción Documental, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.
2002-Dissolving, Threads of Water and Light, with César Paternosto, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, USA
-Thread Mansion, The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO, USA.
2001 -Book No Book, an anthological exhibition of artist’s books by Cecilia Vicuña, Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI, USA
2000 -Se mi ya, site specific installation, Galería Gabriela Mistral, Ministerio de Educación, Santiago, Chile
1999 - Cloud-net, a site specific installation, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, USA
1997 -K’isa, a site specific installation at the University of Massachusetts, University at Dartmouth, MA, USA
l996 -Precario, a site specific installation, atInverleith House, the Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland
1994 -Ceq’e Fragments , a site specific installation at the Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM, USA
l992 -El Ande Futuro, a site specific installation at theUniversity Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, USA
l990 -Precarious, a site specific installationat the Exit Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA
l977 -Homenaje a Vietnam, Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá, Colombia
l974 -A Journal of Objects, 400 Precarious Objects, Arts Meeting Place, London, UK
l973 -Pain Things & Explanations, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
l971 -Pinturas Poemas y Explicaciones, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Santiago, Chile
-Otoño, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
Su obra visual se encuentra en las colecciones:
-Tate Gallery, London.
-Frac Lorraine, France.
-Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Chile.
-Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Chile.
-Berkeley Art Museum, California.
-Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin
Curadurías realizadas por Cecilia Vicuña
-Painted Ideas, Visual Poetry from Latin America, Cecilia de Torres Gallery, New York, Sept-Nov 2009
Muestras colectivas
2017 -Documenta 14, Athens, Greece, Kassel, Germany
-Movimientos de tierra, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
-La timidité des cimes (The shyness of the crowns), Frac Lorraine, France
-Radical Women: Latin American Art. 1960-1985, Hammer Museum, LosAngeles
2016 - Strange Oscillations and Vibrations of Sympathy, University Galleries, Illinois State University
-Una imagen llamada palabra, Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Cerrillos, Chile
-Archivo CADA, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
-Embodied Absence: Ephemerality and Collectivity in Chilean Art from the 1970s
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University.
-La emergencia del pop. Irreverencia y calle en Chile, Museo de Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Chile.
-A Kingdom of Hours, Gasworks, London
-Wild living resources belong to society as a whole, Kurant, Norway
2015 -Agitprop!, Brooklyn Museum, New York
-Poema de Chile. La Escritura sólo se acaba con la muerte. Sala Museo Gabriela Mistral, Universidad de Chile, Santiago.
-The Book Undone: Thirty Years of Granary Books. Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library
-Wir sind Utopia: el artista como activista, Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile.
-Embodied Absence: Ephemerality and Collectivity in Chilean Art from the 1970s, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (MSSA), Santiago, Chile
-So You Want To See, e-flux, New York.
-La Buena Estrella, OTR Espacio, Madrid
-Nothing to Hide, Kinz & Tillou Gallery, New York.
-Mestizo, Identidad y Resistencia, Centro Cultural de Las Condes, Chile
2015-Embodied Absence, Ephemerality and Collectivity in Chilean Art in the 70's, Museo dela Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile, Septiembre, viajaCarpenter Center, Harvard University, 2016.
- DUMP! MULTISPECIES MAKING AND UNMAKING, Kunsthaal Aarhus, Dinamarca.
-So You Want To See, e-flux, New York.
-La Buena Estrella, OTRO Espacio, Madrid
-Nothing to Hide, Kinz & Tillou Gallery, New York.
2014 -artevida, Casa França-Brasil and Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
-Really Useful Knowledge organized by WHW, traveling to Cairo, Beirut, Vienna, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid.
2013-Artists from Latin America in London from l96x-l97x David Roberts Art Foundation, London.
2012 - 18th Sydney Biennale, "all our relations", Australia
2011–DANCE/DRAW, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
- re.act.Feminism vol II, a Performing Archive 2011-2013 travelling to: Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, CroatiaWyspa Institute for Art, Danzig,PolandMuseum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, DenmarkTallinn Art Hall, Estonia, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, SpainAkademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
-Chile, años 70 y 80 memoria y experimentalidad, Museo de ArteContemporáneo MAC Universidad de Chile, Santiago
2010 –ONLINE, Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
2009- Subversive Practices Art under Conditions of Political Repression 60’s - 80s South America and Europe, at the
sWürttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
2007 -WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
-Wack! The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2006-Multiplication, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile
- Del Otro Lado, Centro Cultural Palacio de La Moneda, Santiago, Chile
2005 -Gabinete de Lectura, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
2004 -Fishing in International Waters: New Acquisitions from the Latin American Collection, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
2003 - Promoción Popular, Centro Cultural Matucana, Santiago, Chile
2002 -Rayuela/Hopscotch, Fifteen Contemporary Latin American Artists, University Art Gallery, The University of Scranton, PA, USA
2001 -Abstraction, The Amerindian Paradigm, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, travelled to IVAM, Institut Valencia d’ Arte Modern, Spain
2000 -Quotidiana, Castello di Rivoli, Italy
-Transferencia y Densidad, 100 años de Artes Visuales en Chile, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
l998 -North & South Connected, Cecilia de Torres Gallery, New York, NY, USA
l997 -BIENNIALExhibitionat the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
l996 -INside the VISIBLE curated by Catherine M. de Zegher, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, MA, USA.
l994 - ar-ti-cu-la-te, Mary Delahoyd Gallery, New York, NY, USA
l992 - America, The Bride of the Sun, 500 years of Latin American Art, curated by Catherine M.Zegher and Paul Vandenbroeck, Royal Museum of Antwerp, Belgium
1991 “Efecto de Viaje”, Trece Artistas Chilenos Residentes en Nueva York, curated by Justo Pastor Mellado, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
l990 “The Decade Show”, The New Museum, New York, NY, USA
l988 “The Debt”, Exit Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA
l987 “Latin American Artists in New York since l970”, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
l986 “Segunda Bienal de la Habana”, Havana, Cuba
l984 “Latin American Visual Thinking”, Art Awareness Gallery, Lexington, New York, NY, USA
l983 “Chilenas”, Kunsttamtes Kreuzberg, Berlín
l982 “Women of the Americas”, Center for Inter American Relations/Americas Society, New York, NY, USA
l981 “Latin American Video”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
“Ikon & Logos”, Alternative Museum, New York, NY, USA
“INBO Bienal”, Cochabamba, Bolivia
l974 “Arts Festival For Democracy in Chile”, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Catálogos de arte
-Artists for Democracy: El Archivo de Cecilia Vicuña, Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile 2014.
-Cecilia Vicuña, England & Co, London 2013
- Cecilia Vicuña, l966-2012, Galería Patricia Ready, Santiago, Chile, 2012.
-Water Writing: Anthological Exhibition, 1966-2009, Institute for Women & Art, Rutgers University, 2009
-Otoño/Autumn, Reconstrucción Documental, Junio 1971/Agosto 2007
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.
-Dis solving threads of water and light César Paternosto/Cecilia Vicuña, Drawing Papers #34, The Drawing Center, New York, 2002
-Semiya, Galería Gabriela Mistral, Ministerio de Educación, Chile, Abril 2000
