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CECILIA VICUÑA Photo © Bruno Savelli, 2023
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1948 Born in Santiago, Chile
1973 Slade School of Fine Art, University College London,
London, United Kingdom
1971 M.F.A., National School of Fine Arts, University of
Chile
Lives 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
Elected member, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2022
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2019
Fellow, United States Artists, Chicago, IL
Premio Velázquez de Artes Plásticas, Spanish Ministry of Culture, Madrid, Spain
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, United Kingdom

2025
Reverse Migration, a Poetic Journey, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
(forthcoming)
Arch Future, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
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, Brazil
2023
Cecilia Vicuña: Soñar el agua, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; Museo de Arte
Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Quipu Poema Films, Museo Precolombino, Santiago, Chile
Cecilia Vicuña in London, 1972 and Today, Lehmann Maupin, London, United Kingdom
Cecilia Vicuña: Sonoran Quipu, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tuscon, AZ
Video Room: Cecilia Vicuña, MASP, São Paulo, Brazil
2022
Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
Spin Spin Triangulene, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Cecilia Vicuña: Seehearing the Enlightened Failure, Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá,
Colombia
2021
Cecilia Vicuña: Seehearing the Enlightened Failure, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid,
Spain
Quipu Girok, Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, South Korea
2020
Cecilia Vicuña: Seehearing the Enlightened Failure, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo,
Mexico City, Mexico
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, Netherlands
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, United Kingdom
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, Scotland
1994
Ceq'e Fragments, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Hilumbres Allqa, Kanaal Art Foundation, Kortrijk, Belgium
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, Colombia
1974
A Journal of Objects: 400 precarious objects, Arts Meeting Place, London, United Kingdom
1973
Pain Things & Explanations, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom
1971
Pinturas Poemas y Explicaciones, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
Otoño, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
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