Matilde Marin
Bio
Matilde Marín (Buenos Aires, 1948) is an Argentine visual artist whose work encompasses printmaking, photography, video, artist’s books, and installation. She graduated in sculpture from the National School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires and continued her studies in graphic arts at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich, Switzerland. Since the late 1990s, she has incorporated photography and video into her artistic practice, focusing on landscape, transformations of the territory, and the role of the artist as a witness to her time. Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in major biennials, including those of Havana, Cuenca, and Curitiba. She has received the Konex Platinum Award, the National Salon’s Grand Prize of Honor for Printmaking, and the Jorge Romero Brest Lifetime Achievement Award. She served as president of the National Academy of Fine Arts in Argentina from 2022 to 2024. She lives and works in Buenos Aires.
Statement
Matilde Marín’s artistic practice explores the relationships between landscape, territory, memory, and human experience. Through photography, video, printmaking, and artist’s books, her work reflects on the transformations of the contemporary world and the role of the artist as a witness to her time. Her projects combine documentary observation with a poetic and conceptual approach, examining the traces of human activity on the environment and the tensions between nature, history, and society.
