Claudia Fontes
Born in Buenos Aires, 1964 and lives in Brighton, UK
Claudia Fontes studied arts in Buenos Aires and was awarded grants to develop her practice at Taller de Barracas in Buenos Aires and to be a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where she worked under the advice of Richard Deacon, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Joan Jonas, amongst others. She has been showing her work since 1992, with solo exhibitions at I.C.I. (Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana), Buenos Aires Modern Art Museum (MAMbA). Her work could recently be seen in the Frieze Sculpture Park 2011 in London, and at The Wordly House, in Documenta 13, Kassel, 2012 and are included in private and public collections both in Argentina and Europe. She was also the creator of TRAMA, a platform of cooperation amongst artists. She represented Argentina during the 57h International Art Exhibition, organised by the Venice Biennale in 2017.
