Eduardo Gil

EDUARDO GIL was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1948.

In 2019 he received the Artistic Career Award, the highest distinction that the Argentine State grants to an artist.

Gil has exhibited his work in Argentina, Alemania, Australia, Austria, Bélgica, Brasil, Canadá, Chile, Cuba, Eslovaquia, España, Estados Unidos, Francia, Guatemala, Gran Bretaña, Holanda, Italia, México, Puerto Rico, Suecia, Tailandia, Uruguay y Venezuela.




PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (selection):


-Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, España


-MALBA Museo de Arte Latinoamericano , Buenos Aires, Argentina


-Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, EEUU


-MAMBA Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina


-Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

-Museu de Arte Moderna do Río de Janeiro, Brasil


-MFAH Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, EEUU


-Museo Castagnino + MACRO, Rosario, Argentina


-Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela


-Princeton Universitary Art Museum, Princeton, EEUU


-Museo de Arte y Memoria, La Plata, Argentina


-MALI. Museo de Arte de Lima. Perú


-I.C.P. (International Center for Photography), New York, EEUU


-Colección Arte de Nuestra América Haydée Santamaría, ...

After graduating as a Commercial Airline Pilot, completing his studies in Meteorology, studying Sociology at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and passing through diverse work experiences, at the beginning of the 1980s, he began a multifaceted photographic experience.
His first documentary essay was on the subject of Cemeteries in Latin America.
Between 1982 and 1985 he coordinated a photography workshop with the inmates of the Hospital Borda, which ended with a lucid photographic essay on mental health. The series Latinoamérica and Retratos Latinos are also from that time.
In 1983, he photographed one of the most significant artistic-political practices of the period, El Siluetazo, currently an invaluable artistic document.
All these works were done in black and white and were obsessively developed by Gil himself.
In 1983, he created the Workshops on Photographic Aesthetics (Talleres de Estética Fotográfica, TEF), the first of their kind in the country, in which he applied non-conventional techniques in his aesthetic search and group work.
The following year, he took part in founding the Nucleus of Photographic Authors (Núcleo de Autores Fotográficos, NAF), which was particularly influential locally thanks to its foundational ...

SOME SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2019 - “STILL I RISE: FEMINISMS, GENDER & RESISTANCE, ACT 2”. De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex, UK.

2018 - “EDUARDO GIL – EL DESORDEN DE LAS APARIENCIAS”, Bienal Argentina de Fotografía Documental. Museo Timotéo Navarro, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. (*)

2018 - “MEMORIA”, Museo de Arte y Memoria, La Plata, Argentina (*)

2018 - “EDUARDO GIL – LA PERSISTENCIA DE LA FORMA”, Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Argentina (*)

2017 - “A TALE OF TWO WORLDS. Experimental Latin American Art in Dialogue with the MMK Collection 1940s-1980s”. Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Alemania.

2017 - “CONTRADICTION AND CONTINUITY: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM ARGENTINA,
1865-2015” Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, EEUU.

2016 - “EL BORDA”. Museo de Arte y Memoria, La Plata, Argentina. (*)

2016 - “SOULÈVEMENTS”. Jeu de Paume, Paris, Francia. Curador Georges Didi-Huberman

2016 - “VERBOAMÉRICA”. MALBA Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires. Argentina

2014 - "URBES MUTANTES 1941-2013 Latin America Photography. Colección de Leticia y Stanislas Poniatowski”. ICP International Center of Photography, New York

2013 -“EL SILUETAZO DESDE LA MIRADA DE EDUAR...