Cecilia Vicuña

Chilean poet, artist and filmmaker · Chile · On the map · Writers · Born 1948 · age 78

Cecilia Vicuña is a Chilean poet and artist based in New York and Santiago, Chile.

Cecilia Vicuña is read about 72 times a day, in 13 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 8 November 2026

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A life in dates

2023National Prize for Plastic ArtsAward2022Golden Lion for Lifetime AchievementAward2020“For me, I think my inspiration is the attitude and the feeling that you are here to sense, feel, shift, relate, and dance with art.”In their wordsInterview (2020)Read the whole statement

2019“I began to define my work as “about to happen” in the 1970s. This is my view of how art exists: art is not what you think it is, but art is what is about to happen.”In their wordsInterview (2019)Read the whole statement

“My own indigenous history was erased - my mother and grandmothers were made to feel shame about their DNA.”In their wordsInterview (2019)Read the whole statement

“(Would you say that your practice seeks to confront that ancestral trauma?) CV: I don’t think my work confronts it as much as faces it.”In their wordsInterview (2019)Read the whole statement

Velázquez Award for Plastic ArtsAward2017“Every living thing is nature. I mean, why are we on this suicidal move, and why is it that people refuse to see what we are doing to the environment even though we all feel it?”In their wordsInterview (2017)Read the whole statement

“Western education is about teaching that knowledge belongs to an elite. Therefore, you either join through a difficult long struggle or you are devoid of any value.”In their wordsInterview (2017)Read the whole statement

1999Anonymous Was A Woman AwardAward1948Born22 July 1948

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Cecilia Vicuña in Speaking Portraits c.2003

In their own words 4

Cecilia Vicuña

4 statements, newest first

We have scholarship and scientific proof that climate change exists, so what is it going to take for people to understand and participate?
2020 · Interview (2020), Own words
From the start, my work has been an interaction between art and poetry.
2019 · Interview (2019), Own words
Our understanding of time is so limited. We have very basic markers of time. We live and we die, but what else? In my opinion, a poem is created outside of time entirely.
2019 · Interview (2019), Own words