Priscilla Monge
{{short description|Costa Rican installation artist}}
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Priscilla Monge (born 1968) is a Costa Rican artist. She is one of the best-known female artists from Central America.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aLZ1zed834wC&pg=PA26 |title=Art of Latin America, 1981-2000 |page=26 |last=Caballero |first=Germán Rubiano |year=2001 |isbn=1931003025}}{{Failed verification|date=March 2018|reason=I may be missing something, but I don't read this source as saying that}}
Early life and education
She was born in San José and studied art at the University of Costa Rica. In 1994, she settled in Belgium, staying there four years; there, she met the artist Wim Delvoye who had a strong influence on her development as an artist. Now, she lives and works in San José.{{cite news |url=http://www.artealdia.com/International/Contents/Artists/Priscilla_Monge |title=Priscilla Monge |work=Arte al Día}}
Art career
Monge expresses herself through video art, installation art and photography. Her work often blends fragility and violence and is open to a multitude of interpretations. Because on the surface, all seems calm, the terror which lurks below the surface is more disturbing. Her work often deals with feminist issues.{{cite web |url=http://www.biennial.com/2006/exhibition/artists/priscilla-monge |title=Priscilla Monge |work=Liverpool Biennial 2008}}
Her work was included in the Venice Biennale in 2001 and again in 2013;{{cite web |url=https://theculturetrip.com/central-america/costa-rica/articles/a-collective-offering-from-costa-rica-at-the-venice-biennale/ |title=A Collective Offering from Costa Rica at the Venice Biennale |work=The Culture Trip}} she was also a participant in the Havana Biennial in 1997 and in the Liverpool Biennial in 2008.
Her work is included in the collection of the Tate Museum.{{cite web |title=Priscilla Monge born 1968 |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/priscilla-monge-9245 |website=Tate}}
Exhibitions
- 2019 – "Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Give Me What You Ask For" – Americas Society, New York.{{Cite web |date=2019-04-09 |title=Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Give Me What You Ask For / Joseph Shaikewitz {{!}} AS/COA |url=https://www.as-coa.org/articles/victoria-cabezas-and-priscilla-monge-give-me-what-you-ask-joseph-shaikewitz |access-date=2024-12-28 |website=www.as-coa.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Publication: Priscilla Monge - Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Give Me What You Ask For |url=https://hutchinsonmodern.com/publications/9-priscilla-monge-victoria-cabezas-and-priscilla-monge-give-me-what/ |access-date=2024-12-28 |website=Hutchinson Modern |language=en}}
- 2013 – 55th Venice Biennial, Costa Rica Pavilion, Ca´Bonvicini, Venice.
- 2010 – Bienal de Pontevedra. “Utrópicos: Centroamérica y Caribe”. Comisario Santiago Olmo. Pontevedra, Spain.
- 2007 – "Global Feminisms" – Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York.{{Cite web |title=Brooklyn Museum |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/exhibitions/632 |access-date=2024-12-28 |website=www.brooklynmuseum.org}}
- 2006 – Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art 2006. Liverpool, UK.
- 2005 – "Points of View" – Photography in El Museo del Barrio's permanent collection. El Museo del Barrio, New York.
- 2004 – I Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla – BIACS. Fundación Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Spain.
- 2003 – OPEN e v+ a 2003 – ev+a. Limerick Biennial, Limerick, Ireland.
- 2001 – 49th Venice Biennial / Biennale di Venecia, Venice.
- 2000 – 24° Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 1999 – "Pervirtiendo el Minimalismo". Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, España.
- 1997 – Bienal de La Habana, Havana, Cuba.
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