Cuban, b. 1968
Tania Bruguera was born in 1968 in Havana, Cuba. Bruguera is a politically motivated performance artist, who explores the relationship between art, activism, and social change in works that examine the social effects of political and economic power. She expands the definition and range of performance art, sometimes performing solo but more often staging participatory events and interactions that build on her own observations, experiences, and interpretations of the politics of repression and control.
Bruguera attended the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, and received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, and has been awarded residencies at Skowhegan; Headlands Centers for the Arts; Fundación Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Maracay; Art in General; and ART/OMI.
Major exhibitions of her work have appeared at the Van Abbemuseum; Queens Museum; National Museum Wales; Havana Biennial (2010, 2003, 2000); Neuberger Museum of Art; Venice Biennale (2009, 2001); Tate Modern; Moscow Biennial (2007); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2006); Shanghai Biennial (2004); Istanbul Biennial (2003); Documenta (2002); San Francisco Art Institute; SITE Santa Fe Biennial (1999) and the São Paulo Bienal (1996).
Tania Bruguera lives and works in Queens, New York.
Bruguera attended the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, and received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, and has been awarded residencies at Skowhegan; Headlands Centers for the Arts; Fundación Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Maracay; Art in General; and ART/OMI.
Major exhibitions of her work have appeared at the Van Abbemuseum; Queens Museum; National Museum Wales; Havana Biennial (2010, 2003, 2000); Neuberger Museum of Art; Venice Biennale (2009, 2001); Tate Modern; Moscow Biennial (2007); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2006); Shanghai Biennial (2004); Istanbul Biennial (2003); Documenta (2002); San Francisco Art Institute; SITE Santa Fe Biennial (1999) and the São Paulo Bienal (1996).
Tania Bruguera lives and works in Queens, New York.
