BIOGRAPHY

Tania Bruguera is an interdisciplinary artist working on political issues primarily through behavior art, performance, installation and video. She has been a participant in Documenta, Performa, three Venice, two Gwangju and three Havana Bienales. Her work has been exhibited at museums including Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, PS1, Kunsthalle Wien and The New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Her work is part of the collection of the Tate Modern; MMK; Daros Foundation; MoMA; Museo del Barrio; Bronx Museum; IVAM; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Centro Wifredo Lam. She received In 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship, in 2008 the Prince Claus Prize and in 2009 she received the first Neuberger Prize.

Bruguera was featured in "Art and Today"; "ART NOW Vol. 2"; "Fresh Cream"; "Performance Live Art Since 1960's; "Art Tomorrow".

She received her MFAs from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (United States) and Instituto Superior de Arte (Cuba).

She is the founder / director of Arte de Conducta, the first performance studies program in Latin America and is visiting faculty at Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris and an Assistant Professor at The University of Chicago, United States.