Patricia Bentancur

(Lives and works in Montevideo, Uruguay)

She is an artist who studied at the School of Architecture in Montevideo, The Visual Art School, the School of Architecture in Madrid (ETSAM) and the New York University (N.Y). With the Fullbright Academic Research Programme Patricia Bentancur developed a significant research on critical studies in architecture dedicated to museography for the spatial and technological requirements of contemporary visual practices and Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts/ACA-USA. She exhibits widely, among other venues, at Southern Latitude - Film Makers Cooperative, New York; and was selected to take part in the FIVA_Festival Internacional de video Arte_Argentina; film laboratory FAC_Contemporary Art Foundation (Montevideo) and the Festival Internacional de Cine eXperimental-DOBRA (Rio de Janeiro) Brazil; the Jordan National Gallery (Amman); the Cervantes Institute (Berlin); Matadero (Madrid); Rostrum (Malmö); the Museum of Modern Art (Bogota); Dello Scompiglio (Lucca); MUVIM/the Image Museum (Valencia); Tegen2 (Stockholm); the Arts Centre (Seville); the Contemporary Culture Centre, CCCB, the Museum of Contemporary Art, MACBA and Caixa Forum (Barcelona), and the Wilfredo Lam Centre (Cuba). She has been invited to the following biennials:  Mercosur; New Media (Chile); Havana (Cuba); Ibero-American (Mexico); Belfort (France); JAFRE (Spain); Electronic Arts (France), and the New Media Biennial (Peru): IX International Biennial of Bolivia_SIART.