South America Archives

Pedro Barrail

Pedro Barrail works as an artist, designer, and architect. He was born in Paraguay and studied in Miami, and his work combines the traditional indigenous

Roberto Mamani

Roberto Mamani Mamani is an Aymara artist from Bolivia. His work is significant in its use of Aymara indigenous tradition and symbols. His art has been

Arturo Calixto Borda

Arturo Borda Gozálvez was painter, portraitist, landscape painter, writer and Bolivian activist. His paintings are framed in the symbolic movement prevai-

Candido Portinari

Brazilian painter of Italian descent. He was born at Brodósqui and studied at the National School of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, 1918–21. In 1928 he was

Edgar Negret

Colombian sculptor. He was born in Popayán and studied at the School of Fine Arts, California, 1938–43. His career was spent mainly in Bogotá, but

Paz Errázuriz

Paz Errázuriz is a Chilean photographer. Errazuriz documented marginalized communities such as sex workers, psychiatric patients and circus performers

Doris Salcedo

Colombian sculptor and installation artist, born in Bogotá where she lives and works. Her art reflects the political climate of her country, which has been

Rodrigo Matheus

Rodrigo Matheus is a Brazilian artist who uses a variety of materials and media, as objects and materials common to the corporate world and also appro

Félix González-Torres

Félix González-Torres was a Cuban-born American visual artist. González-Torres’s openly gay sexual orientation is often seen as influential in his work

Solange Pessoa

Solange Pessoa (born 1961, Ferros), this substantial volume is also the artist’s most comprehensive to date. Pessoa’s sculptural work, which often