Mariana Matthews
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| birth_place = Santiago, Chile
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| occupation = Photographer, curator
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- Adoremos
- Ojo de Agua
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| awards = Altazor Award (2000, 2003)
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Mariana Matthews (born 1946) is a Chilean photographer, curator, and visual artist whose technique is mainly based on the use of documentary photography, contemporary art, and experimental art.{{Cite web |url=http://www.artistasvisualeschilenos.cl/658/w3-article-39729.html |title=Mariana Matthews |publisher=Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts |language=Spanish |access-date=28 November 2018}}{{Cite news |url=http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={a89ff3cf-eeaf-4984-a64c-4a404ef440bf} |title=Mariana Matthews: Erotismo y silencio |trans-title=Mariana Matthews: Eroticism and Silence |first=Cecilia |last=Valdés Urrutia |work=El Mercurio |language=Spanish |date=28 April 2002 |access-date=28 November 2018}}
Biography
Mariana Matthews graduated with a Bachelor of Arts at American University, and earned a postgraduate degree in Photography at Ohio University. She is considered one of the forerunners of so-called patrimonial photography,{{Cite news |url=http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={35a8ae50-5af5-484d-8623-25814e2ded7b} |title=Imágenes de Identidad |trans-title=Images of Identity |first=Angela |last=Grisar Martínez |work=El Mercurio |language=Spanish |date=10 March 2001 |access-date=28 November 2018}} while the use of mixed techniques predominates in her work, mainly based on black and white photography and the inclusion of color as appropriate within such images.{{Cite web |url=http://www.portaldearte.cl/autores/matthews.htm |title=Mariana Matthews |publisher=Portal del Arte |language=Spanish |access-date=28 November 2018}}
Exhibitions and distinctions
Matthews has participated in several solo and group exhibitions during her career, including the exhibitions Chiloé: El Bordemar (1991) and Reunión (1994) at the {{ill|Regional Museum of Ancud|es|Museo Regional de Ancud}}, La Selva Fría at the {{ill|Chiloé Museum of Modern Art|es|Museo de Arte Moderno Chiloé}}, Retrospectiva (2002){{Cite news |url=http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={cfec5907-1a2d-4f37-90d7-9ba353bd915e} |title=Memoria fotográfica |trans-title=Photographic Memory |first=Waldemar |last=Sommer |work=El Mercurio |language=Spanish |date=5 May 2002 |access-date=28 November 2018}} and Residencia en el Valle (2005) at the {{ill|Museum of Visual Arts (Santiago)|es|Museo de Artes Visuales|lt=Santiago Museum of Visual Arts}}, Adoremos (1998), Intervenciones, Cruces y Desvíos (1998), Relatos Breves (2003), Fotografía Contemporánea (2006) and Exposición Centenario (2010) at the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts, Des-Ahogo (2000) at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and the Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, Fragmentos de una Memoria (2001) at the Chilean National History Museum,{{Cite news |url=http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={dd49c50c-a2df-4714-8024-74de06c0a4c1} |title=Memoria Fotográfica |trans-title=Photographic Memory |work=El Mercurio |language=Spanish |date=1 March 2001 |access-date=28 November 2018}} among other exhibitions in Chile, Latin America, the United States, and Europe.{{Cite news |url=http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={8ea5fad3-7cbf-41d9-9ce4-5f7cddf17731} |title=Collage: 100% libertad |first=Marilú |last=Ortiz de Rozas |work=El Mercurio |language=Spanish |date=9 February 2010 |access-date=28 November 2018}}{{Cite news |url=http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={edea8fd7-f5f5-48df-9740-7463797c3feb} |title=Galería de personajes ilustres y otros no tanto |trans-title=Gallery of Illustrious People and Others Not So Much |first=Marilú |last=Ortiz de Rozas |work=El Mercurio |language=Spanish |date=7 July 2010 |access-date=28 November 2018}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.emol.com/noticias/magazine/2009/02/06/343580/con-cine-musica-y-danza-celebran-encuentro-cultural-en-valdivia.html |title=Con cine, música y danza celebran encuentro cultural en Valdivia |trans-title=Cultural Meeting Celebrated with Film, Music, and Dance in Valdivia |work=El Mercurio |location=Santiago |language=Spanish |date=6 February 2009 |access-date=28 November 2018}}
In 2000 and 2003 she received the Altazor Award for National Arts in the Photography category for Adoremos and Ojo de Agua respectively.{{Cite web |url=http://www.premioaltazor.cl/mariana-mathews-adoremos/ |title=Mariana Matthews |publisher=Altazor Award |language=Spanish |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805032102/http://www.premioaltazor.cl/mariana-mathews-adoremos/ |archive-date=5 August 2009 |url-status=dead |access-date=28 November 2018}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.premioaltazor.cl/mariana-matthews-ojo-de-agua/ |title=Mariana Matthews |publisher=Altazor Award |language=Spanish |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130731085121/http://www.premioaltazor.cl/mariana-matthews-ojo-de-agua/ |archive-date=31 July 2013 |url-status=dead |access-date=28 November 2018 }}
Publications
- Los testigos y sus huellas: fotógrafos del Sur de Chile, Valck, Provoste, Sandoval (Valdivia: Corporación Municipal Cultural Valdivia, 2008)
- Casas del Sur de Chile (Valdivia: El Kultrún, 2002)
- Fragmentos de una memoria 1858–2000: fotografía en la Región de Los Lagos (Valdivia: El Kultrún, 2001)
- Valdivia en madera y metal (Valdivia: El Kultrún, 1993)
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- Los fabulosos Valck (2005) together with Margarita Alvarado{{Cite news |url=http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={6b27ba07-f5c4-4237-97d0-a58ccbb40727} |title=Los fabulosos Valck: Tres generaciones tras la cámara |first=Marcelo |last=Somarriva Q. |work=El Mercurio |language=Spanish |date=14 August 2005 |access-date=28 November 2018}}
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Category:21st-century photographers
Category:American University alumni
Category:Artists from Santiago, Chile
Category:Chilean photographers
Category:Chilean women artists
Category:Documentary photographers
Category:Ohio University alumni
Category:Chilean women curators