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(2018); the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film
Archive (2018); Neubauer Collegium for Culture and
Society, University of Chicago (2018); Contemporary
Arts Center, New Orleans (2017). Vicuña has been
featured in numerous exhibitions and biennials; the
artist will be included in the upcoming 59th Venice
Biennale, The Milk of Dreams, and has been awarded
the Biennale’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
(2022). Her work is in numerous international private
and public collections, including the Berkeley Art
Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Blanton Museum
of Art, University of Texas at Austin; Fonds Régional
d’Art Contemporain de Lorraine, Metz, France; Museo
de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago; Museo de Arte
Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); Museum
of Contemporary Art San Diego; Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York;
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago; Pérez Art
Museum Miami; Princeton University Art Museum, New
Jersey; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York;
and Tate, London. Vicuña is the author of 27 volumes
of art and poetry published in the United States,
Europe, and Latin America. Her filmography includes
Cecilia Vicuña, Angel de la menstruación (Angel of Menstruation), 1973.
Oil on canvas, 22 1/2 × 19 in. (57.1 × 48.2 cm). Collection of Catherine documentaries, animation, and visual poems.
Petitgas, London. Photo: Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New
York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London. © Cecilia Vicuña

Cecilia Vicuña, La Vicuña (The Vicuña), 1977. Oil on cotton canvas, 54 3/4 ×
47 in. (139.1 × 119.4 cm). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ives Family Fund,
2018. Photo: 2022 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. © Cecilia Vicuña

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948, Santiago) received her MFA
from the Escuela de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Chile,
in 1971 and continued with postgraduate studies
at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College
London, from 1972 to 1973. Vicuña currently lives and
work in New York and Santiago. Recent solo exhibitions
of her work have been organized at the Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, (forthcoming);
Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá
(2022); Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid
(2021); CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art,
San Francisco (2020); Museo Universitario Arte
Contemporáneo, Mexico City (2020); Museum of
Contemporary Art North Miami, Florida (2019); Witte
de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
(2019); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2019); Institute
of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia (2019); Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio
State University, Columbus (2019); Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston (2018); Brooklyn Museum, New York

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