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Luis
Camnitzer

Luis Camnitzer
Conceptual Artist
New York, NY
2012 USA Fellow

This award was generously supported by the Ford Foundation.
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Conceptual artist Luis Camnitzer was raised in Uruguay and has lived in New York since 1964. Camnitzer works primarily in printmaking, sculpture, and installation, producing bitingly humorous works with a focus on language and socio-political concerns as in Memorial (2009), in which he inserted the names of the “disappeared” in Uruguay during the dictatorship into the telephone book. Camnitzer is also a critic and curator, known for his work on expanding the canon of conceptual art to include Latin American artists.

Portrait photo courtesy Selby Hickey.

  • Artwork by Luis Camnitzer
    Insults, from Barely There, 2009; photo courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
Artwork by Luis Camnitzer