CECILIA VICUÑA Foto © Bruno Savelli, 2023

1948
Geboren in Santiago, Chile

1973
Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, London, Vereinigtes Königreich

1971
M.F.A., National School of Fine Arts, University of Chile

Lebt in New York, NY

2024
Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA

2023
Premio National de las Artes, Santiago, Chile

2022
Goldener Löwe für das Lebenswerk, Biennale di Venezia, Venedig, Italien

2019
Fellow, United States Artists, Chicago, IL
Premio Velázquez de Artes Plásticas, Spanish Ministry of Culture, Madrid, Spanien
Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, Santa Monica, CA

2014
SLAS Spring 2014 Scholar in Residence, Pratt Institute, New York, NY

2011
Sello de Excelencia, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, Santiago, Chile

2009
Estelle Lebowitz Visiting Artist in Residence, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

1999
Anonymous Was a Woman Award, New York, NY

1997
The Andy Warhol Foundation Award, New York, NY

1996
The Fund for Poetry Award, New York, NY
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY

1992
Arts International Award, Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, New York, NY

1985
Human Rights Exile Award, Fund for Free Expression, New York, NY

1972
British Council Scholarship, London, UK

2025
Reverse Migration, a Poetic Journey, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Irland
Arch Future, Xavier Hufkens, Brüssel, Belgien

2024
La Migranta Blue Nipple, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
Cecilia Vicuña: Quipu Gut, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, FL
Sol y dar y dad, Fourth Universalist Society, Central Park West, New York, NY
Cecilia Vicuña: Soñar el agua, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasilien

2023
Cecilia Vicuña: Soñar el agua, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentinien
Quipu Poema Films, Museo Precolombino, Santiago, Chile
Cecilia Vicuña in London, 1972 and Today, Lehmann Maupin, London, UK
Cecilia Vicuña: Sonoran Quipu, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tuscon, AZ
Video Room: Cecilia Vicuña, MASP, São Paulo, Brasilien

2022
Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu, Tate Modern, London, UK
Spin Spin Triangulene, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Cecilia Vicuña: Seehearing the Enlightened Failure, Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá, Kolumbien

2021
Cecilia Vicuña: Seehearing the Enlightened Failure, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid, Spanien
Quipu Girok, Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, Südkorea

2020
Cecilia Vicuña: Seehearing the Enlightened Failure, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexiko
Cecilia Vicuña is on our mind, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA

2019
Cecilia Vicuña: Seehearing the Enlightened Failure, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Niederlande
Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL
Cecilia Vicuña: Lo Precario | The Precarious, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH

2018
Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Berkeley, CA
Quipu Desaparecido, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA

2017
Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

2014
Artists for Democracy: El Archivo de Cecilia Vicuña, Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago, Chile; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile

2013
Cecilia Vicuña, England & Co, London, UK

2012
Aural, Galería Patricia Ready, Santiago, Chile

2009
Water Writing: Anthological Exhibition, 1966-2009, Institute for Women & Art, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Noche de las Especies: la mar herida nos mira, El Gran Vidrio, pensamiento ocular, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, Valparaíso, Chile

2008
Parti Si Pasión, Metales Pesados, Santiago, Chile

2007
Otoño: Reconstrucción Documental, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile

2002
Thread Mansion, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO

2001
Book No Book, Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI

2000
Se mi ya, Galería Gabriela Mistral, Ministerio de Educación, Santiago, Chile

1998
Cloud-net, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY; DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston, TX; Art in General, New York, NY

1997
K'isa, University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA

1996
Precario, Inverleith House, Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh, Schottland

1994
Ceq'e Fragments, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Hilumbres Allqa, Kanaal Art Foundation, Kortrijk, Belgien

1992
El Ande Futuro, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

1990
Precarious, Exit Art Gallery, New York, NY

1997
Homenaje a Vietnam, Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá, Kolumbien

1974
A Journal of Objects: 400 precarious objects, Arts Meeting Place, London, UK

1973
Pain Things & Explanations, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK

1971
Pinturas Poemas y Explicaciones, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
Otoño, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile