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Antoni Muntadas, born in Barcelona, Spain in
1942, has lived and worked in New York since 1971.
His work addresses social, political and communications issues, the
relationship between public and private space within social frameworks,
and investigations
of channels of information and the ways they may be used to censor central
information or promulgate ideas. He works in different media such
as photography, video,
publications, internet and multi-media installations.
He studied at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales in Barcelona
and the Pratt Graphic Center in New York. He has taught and directed seminars
at the University of California in San Diego, the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Bordeaux
and Grenoble, the CAVS at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the San
Francisco Art Institute, the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris, the University
of Sao Paulo in Brazil, Cooper Union in New York and many other institutions.
Muntadas has received several prizes and grants including those of the Guggenheim
Foundation, the Rockefeller foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts,
the New York State Council on the Arts, Arts Electronica in Linz/Austria, Laser
d'Or in Locarno, Switzerland and the Premi Nacional d'Arts Plastiques de la
Generalitat de Catalunya.
He created works commissioned by the Centre Nacionale des Arts Plastiques in
Paris, the Fonds d'Arts Publiques in Marseille, the Public Art Fund in New
York, and
has been resident artist and consulting advisor in several research and education
centers including the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, the Banff Center
in Canada, Arteleku in San Sebastian, Spain and the University of Western Sydney
in Australia.
His works have been exhibited throughout the world, including the Venice Biennale,
Documenta Vl and X in Kassel, the Sao Paulo Biennal, la Biennale de Lyon et
La Havana and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Berkeley Art Museum
in California,
the Wexner Arts Center in Columbus, Ohio, le Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal,
le Capc de Bordeaux, France, the Museu de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janeiro in
Brazil, the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, Hungary and the Museo Nacional Centro
de Arte
Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain.
