Cecilia Vicuña

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1948-07-22 (76 years old)

Place of Birth Santiago, Chile

Also Known As Norma Cecilia Vicuña Ramírez

Cecilia Vicuña

Biography

Norma Cecilia Vicuña Ramírez, visual artist and writer. She was born on July 22, 1948 in Santiago, Chile. She studied at the Faculty of Arts of the Universidad de Chile in 1971. Later in 1972 she traveled to London where she did postgraduate studies at the Slade School of Fine Arts at University College. She is considered one of the pioneers of conceptual art in Chile. She formed a group of artists and poets called Tribu No. At the beginning of 1970 she made a series of installations and art actions related to the theme of symbols of the pre-Columbian indigenous world, nature and South American mythology in general. In 1973 the BBC of London, made a documentary about his poetic-visual work In his visual work he has dedicated himself to oil painting, sculpture and video production. He has also published numerous poetic works and has given conferences on art. In 1975 she settled in Colombia where she continued her studies on American Indian popular culture and worked as a professor of Art History at the Fundación Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano and the course of Contemporary Latin American Poetry at the Fundación El Arte of the Universidad Libre de Bogotá. In 1980 she moved to New York City, USA.

Known For

Director

2021
2018
Disappeared Quipu

as Director

2017
A Living Knot

as Director

2017
2015
SemiYa

as Director

2014
Fire Over Water

as Director

2012
Umbílico

as Director

2012
Río Mapocho

as Director

2012
Quipu Austral

as Director

2011
Quipu Viscera

as Director

2010
Kon Kon

as Director

2009
Lápiz en Bote

as Director

2008
Vaso de Leche

as Director

2008
Parti Si Pasion

as Director

2007
Yellow Soto

as Director

1983
Paracas

as Director

1980

Actor

Writer

2010
Kon Kon

as Screenplay