Matilde Marín (Buenos Aires, 1948). Contemporary artist and Argentinean academic, she develops her work in multiple disciplines, including printmaking, photography and video. Marín has been a visiting professor giving postgraduate seminars at universities in Argentina, Chile and Spain. She is a Fellow of the Institut d'Études Avancées de Nantes, France (2020). She graduated as a sculptor at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires and continued her studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich, Switzerland, where she trained in graphic techniques. She began her craft with works on paper in a constant search to break with the traditional norms of the discipline and, since the late nineties, she has incorporated photography and video into her work, creating large-scale installations. Since 2008 she has been a Full Member and President of the National Academy of Fine Arts, Argentina (period 2022-2024). President of the Federico Jorge Klemm Foundation in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Marín has worked and lived in Caracas, Venezuela, Zurich, Switzerland, Washington, USA. She lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Matilde Marín's work has been widely studied in theoretical and critical texts internationally. Her work emerges from a rigorous process of research and a critical and reflective argument about the events that leave their mark on humanity and the role of the artist as an active witness who records and elaborates reflections on contemporaneity.
His current production is focused on the role of the artist as a witness, recording through photography and video stories about the world we inhabit, situations that relate to the pure landscape and its natural or artificial alteration. The themes Marín chooses range from the urban to nature, and from there to the breadth of the horizon. In his artistic production, nature enters as something greater, which must be respected in its harmony. It enters as balance and infinity and stands as a model of life subsuming everything else. In this context, Marín's work assigns a political character to human crises.
Marín has exhibited his work in more than 20 countries and in numerous group exhibitions including La Grafoteca, Berlin; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires; Museum of the Americas, Washington; Bronx Museum of the Arts; Santa Barbara Museum, California; Museo de Oaxaca; Museo Nacional de San Carlos, Mexico; Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas; Museo de Arte Moderno, Cuenca; Museu de Arte Contemporánea, Sao Paulo; Casa de las Américas, Havana; Museo del Barro, Paraguay; FRAC Franche Comté, Besançon; Fundación Santillana, Santillana del Mar; Fundación Luis Seoane, Galicia; Akademie der Künste, Berlin, among others.