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Maria Hupfield (Anishinaabe-kwe of
Wasauksing First Nation, Canada), is a transdisciplinary artist working in performance and media arts, she uses performance to indicate how objects contain and acquire knowledge throughout contact with the body and lived experience.
Hupfield is Anishinaabe and an off-rez citizen of Wasauksing First Nation, Ontario, and now lives in Toronto via Brooklyn, New York.
Sofia Medici (Buenos Aires, 1974) has a degree in Communication Sciences works as a director, performer, playwright and producer.
Her work explores the possibilities of contemporary art and life as a trigger for critical thinking and as tool to de-naturalize aesthetic and ideological conventions and social behaviours.
Vivian Galban is a Photographer, contemporary artist and architect. Professor at the Austral University. She has been invited to the XVII Biennial of Visual Arts in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. She participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries, as well as in private and public exhibition spaces and institutions. She has participated in international art fairs in Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Mexico and Bolivia. She lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Ana Casal is a Photographer and video artist. Born in Punta Alta Argentina. She lives and works in Buenos Aires. Studied Art History in Museo del Prado and Museo Lázaro Galdeano in Madrid, Spain.
Her works are part of private collections.
Patricia Linenberg (Buenos Aires, 1954) lives and works in Buenos Aires.
She was invited to the Bienal of Mercosur 2017 & 2018 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
She graduated as Clinical Psychologist at Belgrano University in 1976. She is a regular member of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association and a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association. Her works are part of private collections in: USA, Brazil, Germany, England, France, Italy, Mexico, Uruguay and Argentina.
Liliana Golubisnky (Buenos Aires, 1954) attended the Academy of Fine Arts Augusto Bolognini and the Fine Arts School of Prilidiano Pueyrredon until 1978. She subsequently studied at the studio of Miguel Davila.
Golubinsky has been the recipient of more than forty prizes at the national and international level. She has had numerous one-person and group shows in prestigious galleries, museums and institutions, both in Argentina and abroad.
Marcolina Dipierro was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National School of Fine Arts "Prilidiano Pueyrredón". Her works draw compositions that ref or remit some formal aspects of modern architecture and design in combination and contrast with diverse forms and materialities. At present, its aesthetic search, in the form of sculptural or joint installations, is based largely on the investigation of functionalism and the fusion of the artistic and the decorative into a total art that has so radically elevated the Bauhaus to our contemporaneity.
Camila Salcedo was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Interdisciplinary from NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is an artist, curator and community organizer who explores art-making via performance, video, and textiles. She makes art because she is interested in questioning systems and institutions created to define us such as nations, identities, politics, and migration. She has exhibited nationally in several galleries, artist-run centres and festivals.
Paulo Nazareth’s performance and installation-based work often draw upon his joint African and indigenous heritage. His ongoing work Cadernos de Africa [Africa Notebooks] is presented as part of Journal: a five-year walk he began in 2013 from his home in a favela near Belo Horizonte, throughout Brazil and eventually northwards across the entirety of the African continent from Cape Town.
Holds a degree in Visual Arts from National University of Tucumán. In 2009 he was awarded with a scholarship by Fundación YPF which allowed him to be a part of the first edition of the Artists Program launched by University Torcuato Di Tella. In 2010 he was selected to participate of Lipac, an art program by Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas.
Mariel is dedicated to contributing to the growth of interdisciplinary arts as a method to engage Indigenous community, language, culture and act as a bridge to society telling stories of our time. As artist scholar, her research is about Identity through the lens of Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being, Customary Law, Indigenous Feminism and Performance Theory, exploring how cultural identity is rebuilt through oral history and performance practice. www.sqilxw.com
Aner's work is marked by elements of nature, leaves, roots, plants, tree bark, they dialogue with characters with native features, generating dream stories, where perspectives, elements and meanings are transposed.
Along the path of mural painting, he has been able to leave his traces in different latitudes such as Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Colombia, Canada, Mexico and France.
Julia C. Parodi is a Industrial Design Engineer and Editor. She investigates and experiments different and more accessible broadcasting means of knowldege. She is co-founder at Oblicuas a Design and Gender Collective, together they conducted workshops in many Universities, Galleries and Cultural Spaces. Currently, her work focuses on the production of video-essays using reappropriated images from national and digital archives.
Jarus is a Toronto-based artist and muralist inspired by the visual human experience. International-celebrated as both a contemporary muralist and figurative painter, his work reimagines how art can exist in public spaces. For the past decade, Jarus has been working with communities across Canada and around the globe to produce large-scale portraits and figures among other images on wall surfaces. His works can be found within major cities as well as across rural settings.
Mark Bland was born in Kingston, Ontario Canada in 1982. He moved to Toronto in 2001 to begin his studies in Integrated Media at the Ontario College of Art and Design:University (OCAD:U). Graduating in 2005, his thesis revolving around wearable art and technology as an extension of our bodies, titled ‘The Self Viewing Backpack’, was selected by a jury of established artists to be shown on display at Gallery 61 for Toronto’s Go-West exhibition.
Claire Dunn is a San Francisco-based artist, psychologist and a traveler. She was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she received her BS in psychology at Universidad del Salvador (USAL). She is currently pursuing an MFA (Fine arts) at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. Her artwork has been exhibited in Argentina and in the USA.
Carolina Quesada is a United States born photographer, who lives in Argentina. Carolina´s interest in photography sparked at a young age.
She participates in various workshops since 2012.
Aaron Nachtailer is an Argentine artist born in 1986 in Neuquén, Patagonia. In a deep search for connection with himself, he expresses his artistic vision with the exploration of innovative ideas surpassing conventional aesthetics, moving between sculpture and installations, and creating works that express a hundred percent the propensity on a new search of space.
Débora Staiff was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1965, where she lives and works as a textile artist. For 35 years prior, she worked professionally in cultural management, the creative production of artists and shows, as well as the international development of artists. She learned to embroider when she was just six years old and since 2019, has chosen to use the free version of a traditional Japanese born technique, Sashiko, in her work.
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Produced by Maria Stojicic
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