Moving Memorials: A Performance by Maria Veronica San Martin
Join us in Raether Library’s Engelhart Reading Room on March 11th at noon for a performance by Maria Veronica San Martin. The performance will be followed by a discussion with the artist led by Professor Priscilla Melendez. Boxed lunches will be provided. https://www.mveronicasanmartin.com/
María Verónica San Martín (b.1981) is a Chilean New York-based multidisciplinary artist and educator who explores the impacts of history, memory, and trauma through artist books, prints, installation, sculpture, and performance. San Martín addresses memory as a pivotal factor for the understanding of the neoliberal, globalized present, through the subject matter of the Chilean dictatorship’s violence (1973-1990), vis-à-vis the United States and Nazism’s involvement in that violence. San Martín was a fellow at the Whitney Museum, Independent Study Program, NYC (2017-2018), a schollart at the Center for Book Arts, NYC (2016-2017) and has made many international residencies including Art OMI, Ghent, NY. She has been awarded two New York Foundation for the Arts grants, an IPCNY Mentorship, and obtained three National Art Funds from Chile. She has had solo exhibitions at Museum Meermanno, Netherlands, 2019; the Chilean National Archives, 2018; BRIC, Brooklyn, 2017; the Museum of Memory, Santiago, 2013, and group exhibitions at The National Museum of Women in the Arts, DC, 2020; The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA; Artists Space, NYC, 2018 among others. In 2020 she was invited to exhibit at her first biennial, The Immigrant Artist Biennial in New York. Her work is in more than 60 collections including the MET, the Pompidou, Paris and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. San Martín has been performing and lecturing her “Moving Memorial” series and “Dignidad Project” since 2016. She is currently teaching at the New York Center for Book Arts and will lead a summer course at Penland School of Craft while preparing her next solo show at Galeria NAC in Chile with her last work entitled “The Javelin Project”.
