Antoni Muntadas Barcelona, Spain, b. 1942

Muntadas addresses through his works social, political and communications issues, the relationship between public and private space within social frameworks, and investigations of channels of information and the ways they may be used to censor central information or promulgate ideas. He works on projects in different media such as photography, video, publications, Internet and multi-media installations. His work has been the subject of over 200 one-person exhibitions and numerous publications throughout North and South America, Europe, Russia and most recently South Korea, Japan and China. Deeply concerned about the individual’s relationship in the social sphere, the term “media landscape” is frequently attributed to Muntadas, and his legacy as a major video artist since 1971 has been well documented with his catalogue archived by Electronic Arts Intermix, New York as well as MACBA in Barcelona. As a pioneer in the fields of video, new media and installation art for over 50 years, his work has been influential to many subsequent generations of artists and professionals.

Recent publications include Muntadas: On Translation, published by the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2002), Muntadas: On Translation: Erinnerungsräume, published by the Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen (2004) and Muntadas: Proyectos, published by Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City (2004), On Translation: I Giardini on the occasion of the representation of Spain in the Venice Biennale (2005), Muntadas: Protokolle at the Wurttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart ( 2006) and Muntadas: Entre/Between on the occasion of his retrospective at the Reina Sophia, Madrid (2011).
He has also been the recipient of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, Arts Electronica in Linz (Austria), Laser d'Or in Locarno (Switzerland) and the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas awarded by the Catalan Government. Recently he was also awarded the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas (2005) granted by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. He was a frequent visiting Visiting Professor at the Visual Arts Program in the School of Architecture at the M.I.T. in Cambridge, Massachusetts and currently the Instituto Universitario de Arquitectura del Veneto in Venice.