Kuitca 86
03/14—
06/16/25

Guillermo Kuitca

Buenos Aires, 1961.

Since 1980, Kuitca has had over sixty solo exhibitions at some of the most prestigious museums and galleries of contemporary art in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, including The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (New York, 1991), Kunsthalle Basel (Basel, 1990), Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam, 1990), Musée d’Art Contemporain (Montreal, 1993), The Douglas Hyde Gallery (Dublin, 1995), Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain (Paris, 2000), and The Drawing Center (New York, 2012). He has participated in countless group exhibitions, such as the Bienal de São Paulo (1985, 1989, 1998), Documenta IX (Kassel, 1992), Carnegie International (Pittsburg, 1995), Gwangju Biennale (Korea, 1995), and the 7^th Istanbul Biennial (Istanbul, 2001). In 2007 he was selected to represent Argentina at the 52^nd Venice Biennale, where he also participated in the exhibition held at the international pavilion.

Some of his most important anthological exhibitions are Guillermo Kuitca: Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno IVAM (Valencia, 1993) and Museo Rufino Tamayo (Mexico City, 1993), Burning Beds, a Survey 1982-1994: Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, Ohio, 1994) and Whitechapel Art Gallery (London, 1995), Guillermo Kuitca. Obras 1982-2003: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, 2003) and Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, 2003), Everything. Paintings and Works on Paper, 1980-2008: The Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, 2010), The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, 2010), Miami Art Museum (now PAM, Pérez Art Museum) (Miami, 2010) and The Hirshhorn Museum (Washington D.C., 2010), Guillermo Kuitca: Filosofía para Princesas, Pinacoteca do Estado (São Paulo, 2014), Guillermo Kuitca – Dénouement, LaM-Lille Métropole (Lille, 2021) and Guillermo Kuitca. Desenlace, MACA, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Atchugarry (Maldonado, Uruguay, 2023).

As a curator, he has carried out interdisciplinary work with the Fondation Carter Collection, reflected in three large-scale exhibitions: Les Habitants (Fondation Cartier, Paris, 2014), Les Visitants (CCK, Buenos Aires, 2018), and Les Citoyens (Triennale di Milano, 2022).

His theatrical activity includes making the plays Nadie olvida nada (1982), Besos brujos (1983), and El mar dulce (1984) with Carlos Ianni. He was in charge of designing the set for La casa de Bernarda Alba (2002) and Bodas de Sangre (2022)—both written by Federico García Lorca and performed at the Teatro San Martín in Buenos Aires with Vivi Tellas as director. In 2003 he designed the set for the opera Der Fliegende Holländer, by Richard Wagner, at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. In 2007 The Metropolitan Opera in New York presented the exhibition Guillermo Kuitca: Stage Fright, which showcased his work with plans of opera houses. In 2009 he designed the permanent stage curtain for the Winspear Opera House in Dallas, built by architect Norman Foster. Likewise, he and Julieta Ascar designed the new curtain for the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, first shown in 2010.

His work as a teacher includes creating the prestigious program for young artists in Buenos Aires known as the Kuitca Grant, which has had multiple generations of artists participate in its five editions between 1991 and 2011.

His work is featured in numerous public and private collections, including the MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art), Guggenheim Museum and Metropolitan Museum (New York), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), Malba (Buenos Aires), TATE (London), and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa).

The complete library of his work contains more than sixty books and catalogs to this date.

In 2004 he was named Honorary Professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and he was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Letters in France in 2018. In 2024, at the invitation of the Picasso Museum in Paris, he did a mural intervention in the chapel of the Hotel Salé, the palace where the museum is located. The exhibition Lorca/Kuitca. Vals en las ramas has recently opened in Mexico at the Museo de Arte de Zapopan. Featuring works by both artists, it will be held at the Centro Federico García Lorca in Granada in 2025.

Guillermo Kuitca has been exhibiting his work at the Sperone Westwater gallery in New York since 1993, and at Hauser & Wirth, the gallery that represents him internationally, since 2001.