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Cecilia Vicuña (born July 22, 1948 ) is a Chilean poet, artist, and filmmaker based in New York and Santiago. Her work is noted for themes of language, memory, decay and exile. Critics also note the relevance of her work to the politics of ecological destruction, cultural homogenization, and economic disparity, particularly the way in which such phenomena disenfranchise the already powerless. Her commitment to feminist forms and methodologies is considered to be a unifying theme across her diverse body of work. The term eco-feminism can be considered an explanation of her practice that has long linked gender injustice with ecological destruction.

Life
Cecilia Vicuña was born in Santiago de Chile in 1948 and raised in La Florida, in the Maipo valley. From 1957 to 1964,She learned English at St Gabriel's English School and made large abstract paintings at her first studio built by herfather. In 1966, She attended Architecture School at the University of Chile in Santiago but switched to the Fine ArtsSchool. In 1967, She published first poem and found the "Tribu No".

In 1975, Vicuña left London and moved to Bogotá, Colombia to create stage designs. In 1980, Vicuña moved to New York City and marries César Paternosto. In 1990s, Vicuña had several solo exhibitions at US, such as “Precarious,”solo exhibition at Exit Art, New York (1990), “El Ande Futuro,” solo exhibition at the University Art Museum, Berkeley,California. (1992), “Cloud-Net,” solo travelling exhibition at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY(1998),DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston, Texas; and Art in General, New York, NY.(1998)

Quipus
Five thousand years ago, it is created by Andes people and they did not write but wove meanings such as poems into the textiles and knotted cords in order to record and keep information. Also it is used in the region of Andean South America and contained lots of other values such as tax obligations, census data and military organization, so it is historically important. It has spatial metaphor for the union of all. It connected communities in the Andes but disappeared after the conquest.

Objects
Cecillia argues that "An object is not an object but it is the witness to a relationship".

Installations
Cecillia refer to her works as "Metaphors in Space", "Spatial Weavings", "StreetWeavings" or "Museum Weavings". Her installation has symbolic meanings. One of her best installations would be "Precario/Precarious"(1990), which function simulatneously as performances and installations.

Artists for Democracy (AFD) was founded on May 6th, 1974, in London by Cecilia Vicuña

Selected Group Exhibitions

 * Pintura Instintiva Chilena, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile, (1972)
 * The Decade Show, The New Museum, New York, NY (1990)
 * Zegher and Paul Vandenbroeck, Royal Museum of Antwerp, Belgium (1992)
 * Gallery, London, and the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, (1996)
 * Transferencia y Densidad, 100 años de Artes Visuales en Chile, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile (2000)
 * Rayuela / Hopscotch, Fifteen Contemporary Latin American Artists, University Art Gallery, The University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, (2002)
 * Multiplicación, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile, (2006)
 * WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA, (2007)
 * Meeting Points 7 - MP7. Curated by “What, Who and for Whom” (WHW), traveling to Cairo, Beirut, Vienna, Madrid, (2013)

Recent
Cecilia Vicuña currently teaching MFA Art Practice, Graduate Seminar II, and Studio Practice II at the School of Visual Arts in NY. Also, she is having workshopsand seminars throughout the US and Latin America as the co-founder of the Oysi School.

In recent years, Cecilia Vicuña had workshops and seminars at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University; Denver University; theUniversity of Pennsylvania; the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, at the Universidad de Buenos Aires; the Festival de Poesía de Medellín at SUNY Purchase; BatesCollege; Cornell University; Ithaca College; the Just Buffalo Literary Program in Buffalo, NY; The Abrons Center at Henry St Settlement, New York; Pratt Institute;CUNY; and the St. Mark's Poetry Project at the Poets House in New York.