Maria Silvia Corcuera

María Silvia Corcuera lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied Literature and Art History at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She trained in the workshops of Kenneth Kemble and Víctor Chab. She has exhibited her work in numerous solo exhibitions, including "Toys, Hair Combs, Shields, Cities, Memories of a Global Lost Woman." She participated in "Geometry Without Limits," an exhibition of the Jean and C. Cherqui Collection, at the Maison L. Amérique Latine in Paris, France. Among her major awards is the ANBA Trabucco Prize. She was selected for the research project "Intersection of Art, Science and Technology" at the Carnicero-Fornari Department of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Buenos Aires. She participated in the 13th Florence Biennale in 2021. In 2020, she was chosen as the best artist in Latin America and the Caribbean by the Ivy Plus Library Confederation. She was invited to participate in the sixth edition of the "Personal Structures" exhibition at the European Cultural Centre in Venice in 2022. Her works are part of museum and private collections, as well as the collection of William & Mary University (Virginia, USA). Her work and its evolution are the subject of study by Dr. Regina Root of William & Mary University (Virginia, USA), under the title "Couture and Consensus: Fashion and Politics in Postcolonial Argentina" (2012). She is currently the Director of Visual Arts at the National Endowment for the Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her work was selected for the cover of The New Latin American Fashion Readers, a publication of Bloomsbury Visual Arts.