Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona 1942) 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 projects in different media such as photography,
video, publications, Internet and multi-media installations.
Muntadas studied at the Technical School for Industrial
Engineers in Barcelona and the Pratt Graphic Center in New
York, where he has lived since 1971. He has taught and directed
seminars diverse institutions throughout Europe and the United
States, including the National School of Fine Arts in Paris,
the Fine Arts Schools in Bordeaux and Grenoble, the University
of California in San Diego, the San Francisco Art Institute,
the Cooper Union in New York and the University of Sâo
Paulo. He has also been welcomed as a resident artist and
consulting advisor by various research and education centres
including the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester (USA),
the Banff Center (Canada), Arteleku (San Sebastian), The
National Studio for Contemporary Arts Le Fresnoy (Lille Metropol),
and the University of Western Sydney. He is currently Visiting
Professor at the Visual Arts Program in the School of Architecture
at the M.I.T. in Cambridge (MA) and the Instituto Universitario
de Arquitectura del Veneto in Venice.
He has received several prizes and grants, including those
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.
His work has been exhibited throughout the world, in events
such as the 1976 Venice Biennial; Documenta Kassel (VI and
X Edition); and the Sao Paulo, Lyon and Habana biennales.
He has exhibited, among others, at the Museum of Modern Art
in New York, Berkeley Art Museum in California, Museo Nacional
Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and the MACBA
in Barcelona. He participated in the 51 st edition of the
Venice Biennale (2005), where he transformed the Spanish
Pavilion into the On Translation Pavilion.