Latino America
December 7 – 30, 1995
First photographs taken starting in 1979 during an initiatory four-month journey through several South American countries, deeply impacted especially by contact with Indigenous cultures—particularly in Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador—and by their most dispossessed social classes.
Gil has exhibited his work individually in Australia, the United States, Europe, and Latin America. His works are part of the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo de Arte Moderno, and MALBA – Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, as well as the Museo de Arte y Memoria in La Plata and the Castagnino+MACRO in Rosario, Argentina.
Internationally, his work is also held in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, Princeton University Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH), International Center for Photography (ICP) in New York, Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, MUAC – Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, MALI – Museo de Arte de Lima, Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas, Casa de las Américas in Havana, the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg, Sweden, among others.
As an independent curator, since 1986 he has been responsible for dozens of exhibitions both in Argentina and abroad. He directed FotoEspacio, the Photography Gallery of the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires, and founded and directed the Permanent Photography Gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts in the city of Chivilcoy (1988-2008).
He has developed an extensive teaching career, for which he received the Lifetime Teaching Achievement Award granted by the Argentine and International Associations of Art Critics. In 2019, he was awarded the National Prize for Artistic Career Achievement, the highest recognition granted by the Argentine State to a living artist.
He currently lives and works in Buenos Aires.
www.eduardogil.com
