Chilean poet, artist, and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuña studied Fine Arts at the University of Chile in Santiago and in London, at the Slade School of Fine Arts. She performs and exhibits her work widely, most recently at the 1997 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, and the Institute for Contemporary Arts in Boston. Her solo traveling exhibition Cloud-Net, a poem in space, opened in New York in 1999. The recipient of many honors, she received teh Human Rights Award from the Fund for Free Expression in 1992, the Fund for Poetry Award in 1995-1996, and the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, New York, 1999. Her most recent books are: Cloud-Net (Art in General/Hallwalls/Diverse Works, New York, 1999), UL: Four Mapuche Poets (Latin American Review Press, 1998), QUIPOem/The Precarious, The Art and Poetry of Cecilia Vicuña (edited by Catherine de Zegher, Wesleyan University Press, 1997), Word & Thread (translated by Rosa Alcalà, Morning Star Publications, 1996), and Unravelling Words & the Weaving of Water (translated by Eliot Weinberger and Suzanne Jill Levine, edited by Eliot Weinberger, Graywolf Press, 1992).

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