Felipe Mujica

Felipe Mujica (1974, Santiago, Chile) is a multidisciplinary installation and sound artist that often works in collaboration with local communities and craft artists in his projects. He has participated in the 3rd Guangzhou Triennial (2008), The Nature of Things - Biennial of the Americas, Denver (2010), and the 32th Sao Paulo Biennia l (2016) with his "Curtains" series (Cortinas). Mujica moved to Brooklyn, New York, in the early 2000s where he lives and works.

Work
Felipe Mujica was born in Chile, and studied visual arts at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, in Santiago. He later co-founded the artist's run gallery Galería Chilena, which was active from 1997 to 2005.

Mujica's production combines an array of media such as painting, drawing, textiles, installation, sound art, video game culture, DJing, and social practice projects. He was an artist in residence at Gasworks, in London, where he expanded on his Soundsystem series, about music as a media and as a component of cultural and historical movements.

For his work The Unknown Universities, or Las universidades desconocidas in the original and Spanish title, created in 2016 for the 32th Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil, he worked with a group of forty female residents from a local community of embroiders in Sao Paulo state.

Exhibitions (selection)
Mujica co-curated and participated in the group exhibition A Rehearsal by Felipe Mujica and Johanna Unzueta at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, in 2015. His work was included in the group show “Embodied Absence: Chilean Art of the 1970s Now” (2016), at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Massachusetts.

The solo exhibition "What were you thinking about, in the past or the future?" was on view in 2020 at the Museum of Visual Arts (MAVI UC), a contemporary art venue in downtown Santiago. The project received a 2020 Grant from the Chilean government to present twenty large-scale textile pieces produced in collaboration with local community centers and advocates supporting migrants in Chile over a series of open workshops. In 2021, he presented Cortinas, a one-person show at Dimensions Variable, an independent art space in Miami.

Felipe Mujica: The Swaying Motion on the Bank of the River Falls, his major solo show to date, organized and presented at the Pérez Art Museum Miami in 2022. For the solo exhibition, Mujica created new pieces from its textile panels, or curtains, in collaboration with craft artisans from the Miccosukee native community in South Florida.

In 2023, he produced eleven new curtains using traditional quilting techniques in collaboration with local residents of the New York town of Stamford.

Collections (selection)
Felipe Mujica's work is included in the collection of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida.