Cecilia Vicuña

Born in Santiago, Chile 1948. Lives in New York, NY.

Education

1973 Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, London, Great Britain. 1971 Studied Pedagogy in Plastic Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Chile, Santiago.

Awards and Honors

2023 National Arts Award from the Minister of Cultures, Chile. Foreign Honorary Member of the United States Academy of Arts and Letters, USA. Honorary Doctorate from the Universidad de Chile, Chile.

2022 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.

2020 Cecilia Vicuña is on our mind, Wattis Arts Institute, California College of Arts, Berkeley, CA. Jack Wolgin Annual Visiting Artist, Tyler, Art & Architecture, Temple University, Filadelfia, PA

2019 Velázquez Award for Plastic Arts, Ministry of Culture, Madrid, Spain. Herb Alpert Award for the Arts, Santa Monica, CA.

2015 Messenger Lecturer, Cornell University, Ítaca, NY.

2014 SLAS Spring 2014 Scholar in Residence at The Department of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute, New York.

2011 Seal of Excellence, National Council for Culture and the Arts, Santiago, Chile.

2009 Estelle Lebowitz Visiting Artist-in-Residence, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

2005 Phipps Chair in Contemporary Poetry, University of Denver, Denver, CO.

2004 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH.

2003 The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency, Lago de Como, Italy.

2002 Hedda Sterne Foundation Residency, Springs, NY. Pennies Pennies from Heaven Fund Award, Community Trust of New York, NY.

2001 Valparaiso Foundation Residency, Mojacar, Spain.

1999 Anonymous Was a Woman Award, New York, NY.

1997 The Andy Warhol Foundation Award, New York, NY.

1996 The Fund for Poetry Award, New York, NY.  Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY.

1992 Arts International Award, Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, New York, NY.

1985 Human Rights Exile Award, Fund for Free Expression, New York, NY.

1972 British Council Scholarship, London, UK.

Selection of Solo Exhibitions

2023 Cecilia Vicuña: Dreaming of Water, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile. Cecilia Vicuña: Flower World Quipu, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ.

2022 Hyundai Commission: Cecilia Vicuña, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom. Spin Spin Triangulene, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.

2021 Cecilia Vicuña: Seehearing the Enlightened Failure, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid, Spain. Quipu Girok, Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, South Korea.

2020 Cecilia Vicuña: Seehearing the Enlightened Failure, Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia, Bogota, Colombia. Cecilia Vicuña is on our mind, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA.

2019 Minga del Cielo Oscuro, Centro Cultural de España, CCE, Santiago, Chile. Cecilia Vicuña, Lo Precario, The Wexner Arts Center, Columbus, Ohio.

2018     Cecilia Vicuña: Seehearing the Enlightened Failure, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Retrospective exhibition was shown at Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid (2019) with Spanish title: Veroír el Fracaso Iluminado: exhibited at MUAC, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico (2021); and at Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia (2022).
Quipu Desaparecido, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
Cecilia Vicuña: Contaminated India, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY.
Cecilia Vicuña: PALABRARmas, Neubauer Collegium, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

2017 Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA. Research exhibition, traveled to four museums: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Berkeley, (2018); a Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Filadelfia, PA (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL, (2019), USA.

2015 Cecilia Vicuña, The Origin of Weaving, Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL.

2014 Artists for Democracy: El Archivo de Cecilia Vicuña, Museum of Memory and Human Rights, and National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile.

2013 Cecilia Vicuña, England & Co, London, United Kingdom.

2012 Aural, Patricia Ready Gallery, Santiago, Chile.

2009 Water Writing: Anthological Exhibition, 1966-2009, Institute for Women & Art, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Noche de las Especies: la mar herida nos mira, El Gran Vidrio, pensamiento ocular, National Council for Culture and the Arts, Valparaíso, Chile.

2008 Parti Si Pasión, Metales Pesados, Santiago, Chile.

2007 Otoño: Reconstrucción Documental, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.

2002 Thread Mansion, The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO. DIS SOLVING: Threads of Water and Light, The Drawing Center, New York, NY.

2001 Book No Book, Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI. 

2000 Se mi ya, Galería Gabriela Mistral, Ministerio de Educación, Santiago, Chile.

1998 Cloud-net, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY; DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston, TX; and Art in General, New York, NY. 

1997 K’isa, University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

1996 Precario, Inverleith House, the Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland.

1994 Ceq’e Fragments, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM. Hilumbres Allqa, Kanaal Art Foundation, Courtrai, Belgium.

1992 El Ande Futuro, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California.

1990 Precarious, Exit Art Gallery, New York, NY. 

1977 Homenaje a Vietnam, Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá, Colombia.

1974 A Journal of Objects: 400 precarious objects, Arts Meeting Place, London, UK. 

1973 Pain Things & Explanations, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK. 

1971 Pinturas Poemas y Explicaciones, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Santiago, Chile.  Otoño, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.

Selection of Group Exhibitions

2022 Life Between Buildings, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY.
Alfredo Jaar: THE TEMPTATION TO EXIST, Galerie Lelong & Co, New York, NY.
MoMA New Acquisitions, Room 205, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.

2021 The Language in Common, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
Artist and Society, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom.
Bodies of Water, 13th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China.
Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, 13th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea.
What if I dedicated my life to one of his pens?, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria.
Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time, SPACE, Portland, ME.
The Space Between Classrooms, Swiss Institute, New York, NY.

2020 Caza de brujas, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Kobenhavn, Dinamarca. Reescribir el mundo, Glassel School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX. A Very Anxious Feeling, Museo de Arte Taubman, Roanoke, VA. Ecofeminismo, Galería Thomas Erben, New York, NY. More More More, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai, China. Earthkeeping/Earthshaking, Galería Quadrum, Lisboa, Portugal. Pinchazos: Textiles en tiempo digital y material, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME.

2019 A Year In Art: 1973, Tate Modern, London.  An Emphasis on Resilience: 2019 CIFO Grants & Commissions Exhibition Program, El Museo del Barrio, New York.  Contemporary Art: Five Propositions, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA. Collaboration for a Dark Sky, Centro Cultural de España, Santiago, Chile. Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.                                                                                              

2018 Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY; Pinoteca de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil. Migrations and Material Alchemy, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ.

2017 Dianna Frid and Cecilia Vicuña: A Textile Exhibition, Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL. Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA. documenta 14, Atenas, Grecia; Kassel, Alemania. Movimientos de Tierra, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile. La timidité des cimes, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de Lorraine, Metz, Francia.

2016 Embodied Absence: Ephemerality and Collectivity in Chilean Art of the 1970s Now, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Strange Oscillations and Vibrations of Sympathy, University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, IL. Una imagen llamada palabra, Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Cerrillos, Chile. La emergencia del pop. Irreverencia y calle en Chile, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile. A Kingdom of Hours, Gasworks, London, UK. Wild living marine resources belong to society as a whole, Kurant, Tromsø, Noruega.

2015 Agitprop!, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY. Poema de Chile. La Escritura sólo acaba con la muerte, Sala Museo, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. The Book Undone: Thirty Years of Granary Books, Kempner Gallery, Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, New York, NY. Wir sind Utopia: el artista como activista, Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile. Ausencia Encarnada. Efimeralidad y Colectividad en el Arte Chileano de los Años Setenta, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile. So You Want To See, e-flux, New York, NY. La Buena Estrella, OTR Espacio, Madrid, Spain. Nothing to Hide: The Feminine Landscape of 12 Latin American Artists, Tillou Fine Art, New York, NY.

2014 Really Useful Knowledge, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, España; ashkal alwan, Cairo, Egypt. artevida (corpo), Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. artevida (política), Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

2013 Les Immémoriales, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de Lorraine, Metz, France. Curators’ Series #6: Friends of London. Artists from Latin America in London from l96X-l97X, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK.

2012 "all our relations," 18th Sydney Biennale. Sydney, Australia.

2011 DANCE / DRAW, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA. re.act.feminism #2 - a performing archive, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, España; Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, Croacia; Wyspa Institute for Art, Gdansk, Polonia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark; Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, España; Academy of Arts, Berlin, Alemania. Chile, años 70 y 80 memoria y experimentalidad, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

2010 ONLINE, Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

2009 Subversive Practices: Art under Conditions of Political Repression, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany.

2007 WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.

2006 Multiplication, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile. Del Otro Lado, Centro Cultural Palacio de La Moneda, Santiago, Chile.

2005 Gabinete de Lectura, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.

2004 Fishing in International Waters: New Acquisitions from the Latin American Collection, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.

2003 Promoción Popular, Matucana Cultural Center, Santiago, Chile.

2002 DIS SOLVING: Threads of Water and Light, The Drawing Center, New York, NY. Rayuela / Hopscotch, Fifteen Contemporary Latin American Artists, Hope Horn Gallery, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA; Mahady Gallery, Marywood University, Scranton, PA.

2001 Abstraction, The Amerindian Paradigm, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, traveled to IVAM, Institut Valencia d’ Arte Modern, Spain. Antagonismos, Museu d”Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain. Agitación como ritual cotidiano. Cartografías del deseo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain.

2000 Quotidiana, Castello di Rivoli, Italy. Transfer and Density, 100 years of Visual Arts in Chile, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile.

1998 II Bienal de Barro de América, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela. North & South Connected, Cecilia de Torres Gallery, New York, NY.

1997 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Inside the Visible. An Elliptical Traverse of Twentieth Century Art in, of, and from the Feminine, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.

1996 Inside the Visible. An Elliptical Traverse of Twentieth Century Art in, of, and from the Feminine, Institute of Contemporary Arts / Boston, Boston, MA; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK.

1994 ar-ti-cu-la-te, Mary Delahoyd Gallery, New York, NY.

1992 America, The Bride of the Sun, 500 years of Latin American Art, curated by Catherine M. Zegher and Paul Vandenbroeck, Royal Museum of Antwerp, Belgium.

1991 Travel Effect: Thirteen Chilean Artists Residing in New York, curated by Justo Pastor Mellado, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.

1990 The Decade Show, The New Museum, New York, NY.

1988 The Debt, Exit Art Gallery, New York, NY.

1987 Latin American Artists in New York since l970, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.

1986 2nd Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.

1984 Latin American Visual Thinking, Art Awareness Gallery, Lexington, New York, NY.

1983 Chilenas, Kunsttamtes Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.

1982 Women of the Americas, Center for Inter American Relations / Americas Society, New York, NY.

1981 Video of Latin America, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
Ikon & Logos, Alternative Museum, New York, NY.
4th Medellín Bienal, Medellín, Colombia.
INBO Bienal, Cochabamba, Bolivia.

1974 Arts Festival For Democracy in Chile, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
7 Artists, The British Council Students Centre, London, UK.

1973 East London Open Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK.

1972 Chilean Instinctive Painting, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile.

Selection of Talks and Workshops

2022 Ex-termination Living Quipu, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.

2019 Clit Nest, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK. Living Poems with Spring IAS Distinguished Speaker Cecilia Vicuña, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell, WA.

2018 The Artist As... Poet, Liquid Architecture, Bella Union, Carlton, Melbourne, Australia.

2017 Doubled, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.

2011 Tugar Tugar Going Out to Search for the Lost Sense, Fondart Project, Caleu, Chile.

2015 Consciousness is Art: Artists for Democracy and Other Stories, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Quipu and the quanta of language, Cornell University, Ítaca, NY. The Poem is the Animal, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

2014 Weaving is Awakening, Pratt Institute, New York, NY. A Life in Art, keynote presentation, Art Practice, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. Artists for Democracy, Columbia University, New York, NY.

2013 Quipu Thoughts, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD. Water Quipu, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, United Kingdom.

2012 Saborami, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.

2010 Ak-Oruk, Amnesty International, Native Spirit Film Festival, London, UK. Paracas, Telefonica Foundation, Lima, Peru.

2009 Kon Kon, Naropa University, Boulder, CO. Ecopoethics, AWP, New York, NY.

2008 Heresies, MoMA PS1, New York, NY.

2007 On Translation, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpellier, Montpellier, France. Threading, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Mapuche Poetic Traditions, Popular Poetry Encounter, City University of New York, New York, NY.
The Thread at Stake, Poets House, New York, NY.
Violeta Parra, Viña del Mar, Chile .
First Audience, The Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY.

2006 The Feathered Horn, A History of the Sixties, King Juan Carlos Center, New York, NY.

2005 What Poetry Is to You, Naropa University, Boulder, CO.
On Collaboration, Colorado State University, Boulder, CO.

2004 A (mis) translation of the Tao Te Ching into Quechua Concepts, Dactyl Foundation, New York, NY.

2002 Gabriela Martiana, Americas Society, New York, NY.

2001 Gabriela at MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

1998 Tongue-Less/Double-Tongued: the experience of Latin American Poetry in the US, St. Mark's Poetry Project, New York, NY.

1997 Seminar with Cecilia Vicuña, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Criticizing the Future, St. Mark's Poetry Project, New York, NY.

1996 Magh, Magical Realism, New York University, New York, NY.
The Melodic Matrix, Tenth International Conference on Translation, Centering Marginality, Barnard College, New York, NY.
The Precarious, Institute of Art, Sterling, Scotland.

1995 Access, St. Marks Poetry Project, New York, NY.
Writing in the Air, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Fertile Writings, Naropa University, Boulder, CO.

1993 Mallarmé seen from the Amazon, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. Passwords: Cecilia Vicuña on Rosario Castellanos, Poets House, New York, NY. An Autobiography in Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.

1992 Oral Memory, Cultural Transmission Conference, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York, NY. El Ande Futuro, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA. Lo Precario, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile. Oir y orar, Tercer Congreso de Culturas Hispánicas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

1991 Arte Precario, School of Architecture, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1990 Mestizo Poetics, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, New York, NY. Ritual Tying, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. Five Precarious Works, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. An Informal Talk, New Museum, New York, NY.

1989 The No, Latinoamérica Despierta Conference, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. Paracas, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY.

1988 The Latin American Diaspora, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA.

1987 Identity and Exile, Women Caucus on the Arts, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA. Cecilia Vicuña, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.

1986 Listening, Fourth International Translation Conference, Barnard College, New York, NY.

1984 Eros del Sud, a vision of ancient and new eroticism, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY. Usos de la Imaginación, Fundación Aigle, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1983 Four Chilean Women Poets, Modern Language Association, New York, NY.

1980 Cecilia Vicuña, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.

1979 El Vaso de Leche, Alianza Colombo Francesa, Bogotá, Colombia. Ojos que no ven, Centro Venezolano de Cultura, Bogotá, Colombia. Cecilia Vicuña, Escola da Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

1978 Ojos que no ven, Goethe Institut, Bogotá, Colombia.

1976 Arte y Poesía de Cecilia Vicuña, Teatro Experimental de Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.

1975 Art, Music and Poetry, The Polythechnic of North London, London, UK. Cecilia Vicuña Speaks of Her Art, Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London, UK.

1974 Art & Literature since the Chilean Revolution, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK.

Residences

2020 Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, PA.

2004 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH.

2003 Bellagio Study Center Residency, Rockefeller Foundation, Lago de Como, Italy.

2002 Hedda Sterne Foundation Residency, East Hampton, NY.

2001 Valparaiso Foundation Residency, Mojácar, Spain.

1991 Bellagio Study Center Residency, Rockefeller Foundation, Lago de Como, Italy.

Volumes of Poetry

2022 Vicuña, Cecilia, Libro Venado, directions, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Vicuña Cecilia, Sudor de Futuro, Altazor Ediciones, Viña del Mar, Chile.

2020 Vicuña, Cecilia, Cruz del Sur, Lumen Chile, Penguin/Random House.

2019 Marambio, Camila, and Cecilia Vicuña. Slow Down Fast, A Toda Raja. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press.

2018 Vicuña, Cecilia. AMAzone palabrarmas, 1977-1978. Translated by James O’Hern. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Vicuña, Cecilia. Cecilia Vicuña: New and Selected Poems. Edited by Rosa Alcalá. Berkeley: Kelsey Street Press.

2017 Vicuña, Cecilia, et al. Read Thread: The Story of the Red Thread. Berlin: Sternberg Press. Vicuña, Cecilia, About to Happen, Siglio Press, NY. Vicuña, Cecilia, PALAVRARmais, translated to Portuguese by Ricardo Corona, Medusa Editions, Curitiba, Brasil.

2015 Vicuña, Cecilia, Kuntur Ko, Hueso Records, Santiago, Chile.

2013 Vicuña, Cecilia. El Zen Surado. Santiago: Editorial Catalonia.

2012 Vicuña, Cecilia. Chanccani Quipu. New York: Granary Books. Vicuña, Cecilia. Spit Temple: The Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuña. Edited and translated by Rosa Alcalá. Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse.

2011 Vicuña, Cecilia. beforehand. Brooklyn: Belladonna. Vicuña, Cecilia. Saborami. Oakland and Filadelfia: Chainlinks.

2010 Vicuña, Cecilia. Soy Yos: Antología, 1966-2006. Santiago: LOM Ediciones.

2007 Vicuña, Cecilia. Sabor a Mí. Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales.

2005 Vicuña, Cecilia. Palabrarmas. Santiago: RIL Editores.

2004 Vicuña, Cecilia. i tu. Buenos Aires: Tsé-Tsé.

2002 Vicuña, Cecilia. Instan. Berkeley: Kelsey St. Press.

2001 Vicuña, Cecilia. El Templo. Translated by Rosa Alcalá. Bristol: Situations Press.

1996 Vicuña, Cecilia. Word & Thread. Translated by Rosa Alcalá. Edimburgo: Morning Star Publications. Vicuña, Cecilia. PALABRARmas / WURWAPPINschaw. Translated by Edwin Morgan. Edimburgo: Morning Star Publications.

1992 Vicuña, Cecilia. Unravelling Words & Weaving Water. Edited by Eliot Weinberger. Translated by Eliot Weinberger and Suzanne Jill Levine. Saint Paul: Graywolf Press.

1990 Vicuña, Cecilia. La Wik’uña. Santiago: Francisco Zegers Editor.

1986 Vicuña, Cecilia. Samara. Roldanillo: Ediciones Embalaje, Museo Rayo.

1984 Vicuña, Cecilia. PALABRARmas. Buenos Aires: Ediciones El Imaginero.

1983 Vicuña, Cecilia. Luxumei, o, el Traspié de la Doctrina. Mexico City: Editorial Oasis. Vicuña, Cecilia. Precario / Precarious. Translated by Anne Twitty. Nueva York: Tanam Press.

1979 Vicuña, Cecilia. Siete Poemas. Bogotá: Ediciones Centro Colombo Americano.

1973 Vicuña, Cecilia. Saborami. Translated by Felipe Ehrenberg. Cullompton: Beau Geste Press.

Selection of Edited Volumes and Collaborations in Books

2020 Vicuña, Cecilia and various authors. Minga del Cielo Oscuro. Santiago: CCE Santiago.

2019 Marambio, Camila, and Cecilia Vicuña. Slow Down Fast, A Toda Raja. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press.

2009 Livon Grosman, Ernesto, and Cecilia Vicuña, eds. The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1998 Vicuña, Cecilia, ed. Ül: Four Mapuche Poets: An Anthology. New York: Americas Society. Pittsburgh: Latin American Literary Review Press.

1988 Bogin, Magda, and Cecilia Vicuña, eds. The Selected Poems of Rosario Castellanos. Saint Paul: Graywolf Press.

Selection of Monographs

2022 López, Miguel, ed. Cecilia Vicuña. Veroir el fracaso iluminado. Madrid: CA2M y Bogotá: MAMU Museo Miguel Urrutia.

2019 López, Miguel, ed. Cecilia Vicuña: Seehearing the Enlightened Failure. Rotterdam: Witte de With.

2017 Andersson, Andrea, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Macarena Gómez-Barris, et al. Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen. Los Angeles: Siglio.

2015 Gardner Clark, Meredith. Vicuñiana: El Arte y la Poesía de Cecilia Vicuña, un Diálogo Sur/Norte. Santiago: Editorial Cuarto Propio.

2013 Ades, Dawn. Cecilia Vicuña. London: Inglaterra & Co.

2012 Cecilia Vicuña, l966-2012, Obras. Santiago: Galería Patricia Ready.

1999 Angelini, Surpik, Laura Hoptman, David Levi Strauss, et al. Cecilia Vicuña: Cloud-Net. New York: Art in General.

1997 de Zegher, Catherine, ed. The Precarious: The Art and Poetry of Cecilia Vicuña. Hanover: University Press of New England.

Selection of Publications

2022 Alemani, Cecilia, ed. Biennale Arte 2022: The Milk of Dreams. Venice: The Venice Biennale. Robinson, Rachel Elizabeth. Visual and Plastic Poetics From Brazilian Concretism to the Chilean Neo-Avant-Garde. Cambridge: Legenda / Modern Humanities Research Association. Tulk, Niki. Performing the Wound: Practicing a Feminist Theatre of Becoming. Milton: Routledge.

2021 Foradas, Alexandra, et al. Kissing through a Curtain. North Adams: Mass MoCA.

2020 Ali, Kazim, and Lisa Sewell, eds. North American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Beyond Lyric and Language. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press. Amich, Candice. Precarious Forms: Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. Blackmore, Lisa, and Liliana Gómez, eds. Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art. Nueva York: Routledge. Castro Jorquera, Carolina. El Camino de la Conciencia: Mira Schendel, Victor Grippo, Cecilia Vicuña. Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Finis Terrae. Garcia, Edgar. Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Harris, Jennifer, ed. A Companion to Textile Culture. New York: Wiley-Blackwell. Lyall, Victoria I., and Jorge F. Rivas Pérez, eds. ReVisión: A New Look at Art in the Americas. Denver: Denver Art Museum. Munich: Hirmer.

2019 López, Miguel, ed. Cecilia Vicuña: Seehearing the Enlightened Failure. Rotterdam: Witte de With. Elderton, Louisa, Catalina Imizcoz, and Rebecca Morrill, eds. Vitamin T: Threads & Textiles in Contemporary Art. London: Phaidon. Elderton, Louisa, Rebecca Morrill, and Karen Wright, eds. Great Women Artists. London: Phaidon. George, Amy, and Dominique Heyse-Moore, eds. Ancient Textiles from the Andes. Manchester: The Whitworth, University of Manchester. Phelps, Jennifer, and Elizabeth Robinson, eds. Quo Anima: Spirituality and Innovation in Contemporary Women’s Poetry. Akron: University of Akron Press. Siqueira Lopes, João Paulo, and Fernando Ticoulat, eds. Workspaces of Latin American Artists. Rio de Janeiro: Editora de Cobogó.

2018 Boon, Marcus, and Gabriel Levine, eds. Practice. Londres: Whitechapel Gallery. Cambridge: MIT Press. Burns, Aileen, Johan Lundh, and Tara McDowell, eds. The Artist As. Berlin: Sternberg Press. Dowling, Sarah. Translingual Poetics: Writing Personhood Under Settler Colonialism. Ciudad de Iowa: University of Iowa Press. Figueredo, Maria L. Creation Sounds: Music, Gender and Performativity in Contemporary Latin American Literature. Champaign: Common Ground. Zalaquett, José. Una pasión predominante: Crítica de artes visuales. Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile.

2017 Albakry, Mohammed, ed. Translation and the Intersection of Texts, Contexts and Politics. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Andersson, Andrea, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Macarena Gómez-Barris, et al. Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen. Los Angeles: Siglio. Burnett, Elizabeth-Jane. A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry Communities. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Bryan-Wilson, Julia. Fray: Art and Textile Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Capone, Francesca, ed. Text Means Tissue. Portland: Nationale. Christian, Dorothy, and Rita Wong, eds. Downstream: Reimagining Water. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Fajardo-Hill, Cecilia, and Andrea Giunta, eds. Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum. Munich and New York: DelMonico Books/Prestel. Frank, Patrick, ed. Manifestos and Polemics in Latin American Modern Art. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Kaza, Madhu, ed. Kitchen Table Translation. Pittsburgh: Blue Sketch Press. King, Amy, and Heidi Lynn Staples, eds. Big Energy Poets: Ecopoetry Thinks Climate Change. Buffalo: BlazeVOX. Matta-Jara, Natalia, and Heike Scharm, eds. Postnational Perspectives on Contemporary Hispanic Literature. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. Paitz, Kendra, ed. Strange Oscillations and Vibrations of Sympathy. Normal: University Galleries of Illinois State University. New York: Distributed Art Publishers/D.A.P.

2016 Clay, Steven, and Kyle Schlesinger, eds. Threads Talk Series. New York: Granary Books. Victoria: Cuneiform Press. Dewart, Murray, ed. Poems About Sculpture. Nueva York: Alfred A. Knopf. Ette, Ottmar, and Julio Prieto, eds. Poéticas del Presente: Perspectivas Críticas sobre Poesía Hispánica Contemporánea. Madrid: Iberoamericana. Frankfurt: Vervuert.

2015 Colo, Papo, Holland Cotter, Rachel Gugelberger, et al. Unfinished Memories: 30 years of Exit Art. New York: Exit Art. Göttingen: Steidl. Gardner Clark, Meredith. Vicuñiana: El Arte y la Poesía de Cecilia Vicuña, un Diálogo Sur/Norte. Santiago: Editorial Cuarto Propio. Hemmings, Jessica, ed. Cultural Threads: Transnational Textiles Today. Londres: Bloomsbury. Moura, Rodrigo, and Adriano Pedrosa, eds. Artevida. São Paulo: Cobogó. Roncalla, Fredy Amílcar. Revelación en la Senda del Manzanar: Homenaje a Juan Ramirez Ruiz, Edición y recopilación de Fredy Roncalla. Lima: Pakarina.

2014 de Zegher, Catherine. Women's Work Is Never Done: An Anthology. Ghent: AsaMER. Chávez, John, and Carmen Giménez Smith, eds. Angels of the Americlypse: An Anthology of New Latin@ Writing. Denver: Counterpath. Delaume, Chloé, Agnes Denes, Elsa Dorlin, et al. Les Immémoriales: Pour une Écologie Féministe. Metz: FRAC Lorraine. Garcés, Marina, et al. Un saber realmente útil. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Hudek, Anthony, ed. The Object. London: Whitechapel Gallery. Cambridge: MIT Press. Waldman, Anne, and Laura Wright, eds. Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics: An Anthology. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press. Lippard, Lucy, Paulina Varas Alcarón, Cecilia Vicuña, et al. Artists for Democracy: El Archivo de Cecilia Vicuña. Santiago: Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos y Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Schor, Gabriele, ed. WOMAN: The Feminist Avant-Garde from the 1970s. Bruselas: Bozar.

2013 Ades, Dawn. Cecilia Vicuña. London: Inglaterra & Co.

2012 Bergvall, Caroline, ed. I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women. Los Angeles: Les Figues Press. Brugnoli, Francisco, Alessandra Burotto, and Carroll Yasky, eds. Chile Años 70 y 80: Memoria y Experimentalidad. Santiago: Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Artes and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. de Zegher, Catherine, and Gerald McMaster, eds. 18th Biennale of Sydney 2012: All Our Relations. Woolloomooloo: Biennale of Sydney. Cecilia Vicuña, l966-2012, Obras. Santiago: Galería Patricia Ready.

2011 Cuéllar, Margarito, ed. Jinetes del Aire: Poesía Contemporánea de Latinoamérica y el Caribe. Santiago: RIL Editores. Molesworth, Helen, ed. Dance/Draw. Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz.

2010 Levi Strauss, David. From Head to Hand: Art and the Manual. Nueva York: Oxford University Press.

2009 Stein, Alex. Made-Up Interviews with Imaginary Artists. Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Press.

2008 Firestone, Jennifer, and Dana Teen Lomax, eds. Letters to Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics, and Community. Filadelfia: Saturnalia Books.

2007 Butler, Cornelia, and Lisa Gabrielle Mark, eds. WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art. Cambridge: MIT Press. Letelier, Alberto Madrid, José de Nordenflycht, Cecilia Vicuña, et al. Otoño/Autumn, Reconstrucción Documental 1971/2007. Santiago: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.

2006 Armstrong, Carol, and Catherine de Zegher, eds. Women Artists at the Millennium. Cambridge: MIT Press.

2005 Espinosa Guerra, Julio, ed. Poesía Chilena: Antología Esencial. Madrid: Visor Libros. "Amb les seves mans i els seus ulls": Teixits maies, miralls d'una cosmovisió. Girona: La Caixa.

2004 Moret, Zulema, ed. Mujeres mirando al sur: Antología de poetas sudamericanas en USA. Madrid: Torremozas.

2003 Holsbeke, Mireille, and Julia Montoya, eds. With Their Hands and Their Eyes: Maya Textiles, Mirrors of a Worldview. Antwerp: Etnografisch Museum Antwerpen.

2002 Kohut, Karl, and José Morales Saravia, eds. Literatura Chilena Hoy: La Difícil Transición. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert. Madrid: Editorial Iberoamericana. Paternoso, César, and Cecilia Vicuña. Dis solving: Threads of Water and Light. New York: The Drawing Center. Randall, Margaret, and Robert Schweitzer. Hopscotch: Fifteen Contemporary Latin American Artists. Scranton: University of Scranton.

2001 Gropp, Nicolás, and Idea Vilariño, eds. Antología Poética de Mujeres Hispanoamericanas, Siglo XX. Montevideo: Ediciones de la Banda Oriental.

2000 Alcalá, Rosa, et al. Poems in the Garden: Rebel Rd. New York: Soho Letterpress. Clay, Steven, and Jerome Rothenberg, eds. A Book of the Book: Some Works & Projections about the Book & Writing. New York: Granary Books. Cecilia Vicuña: Semi Ya. Santiago: Galería Gabriela Mistral. Quotidiana: The Continuity of the Everyday in 20th Century Art. Milan: Charta.

1998 Angelini, Surpik, Laura Hoptman, David Levi Strauss, et al. Cecilia Vicuña: Cloud-Net. New York: Art in General. O’Reilly Herrera, Andrea, ed. A Secret Weavers Anthology: Selections from the White Pine Press Secret Weavers Series: Writing by Latin American Women. Fredonia: White Pine Press.

1997 de Zegher, Catherine, ed. The Precarious: The Art and Poetry of Cecilia Vicuña. Hanover: University Press of New England. Rothenberg, Jerome, and Pierre Joris, eds. Poems for the Millenium, Vol II. Oakland: The University of California Press.

1996 de Zegher, Catherine, ed. Inside the Visible: An Elliptical Traverse of 20th Century Art in, of, and From the Feminine. Cambridge: MIT Press. Pollock, Griselda, ed. Generations and Geographies in the Visual Arts: Feminist Readings. Londres: Routledge.

1995 Witzling, Mara R., ed. Voicing Today’s Visions: Writings by Contemporary Women Artists. Londres: Women’s Press.

1994 Fernández, Roberta, ed. In other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States. Fernández Olmos, Margarite, and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, eds. Pleasure in the Word: Erotic Writings by Latin American Women. New York: Plume. Agosin, Marjorie, ed. These are Not Sweet Girls, Poetry by Latin American Women. Buffalo: White Pine Press. Garrigues, Suzanne, Inverna Lockpez, Barbara Price, et al. Rejoining the Spiritual: The Land in Contemporary Latin American Art. Baltimore: Maryland Institute College of Art. Jacob, Mary Jane, Ivo Mesquita, and Noreen Tomassi, eds. American Visions: Artistic and Cultural Identity in the Western Hemisphere. New York: ACA Books.

1991 Weiss, Rachel, and Alan West, eds. Being América: Essays on Art, Literature and Identity from Latin America. Fredonia: White Pine Press.

1990 Bianchi, Soledad. Poesía Chilena: (miradas, enfoques, apuntes). Santiago: Ediciones Documentas.

1989 Wallis, Brian, ed. Blasted Allegories: An Anthology of Writings of Contemporary Artists. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art.

1988 Partnoy, Alicia, ed. You Can't Drown the Fire: Latin American Women Writing in Exile. Pittsburgh: Cleis.

1987 Agosín, Marjorie, and Cola Franzen, eds. The Renewal of the Vision: Voices of Latin American Women Poets, 1940-1980. Peterborough: Spectacular Diseases. Barnitz, Jacqueline, ed. Latin American Artists in New York since 1970. Austin: A.M. Huntington Art Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin.

1986 Flores, Angel, and Kate Flores, eds. The Defiant Muse: Hispanic Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York. Williams, Reese, ed. Fire over water. New York: Tanam Press.

1985 Villegas, Juan, ed. Antología de la Nueva Poesía Femenina Chilena. Santiago: Editorial La Noria.

1984 Flores, Angel, and Kate Lares, eds. Poesía Feminista del Mundo Hispánico (desde la edad media hasta la actualidad). Madrid: Siglo Veintiuno Editores.

1978 Boccanera, Jorge A. Novísima poesía latinoamericana. México: Editores Mexicanos Unidos.

1982 Sex, Performance, and the 80's. Nueva York: Franklin Furnace. Women of the Americas: Emerging Perspectives. New York: Kouros Gallery and Center for Inter-American Relations.

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2022 Jansen, Charlotte. “10 Artists Set to Have a Major Moment This Fall.” Artsy, August 18. Bury, Louis. “Cecilia Vicuña’s Charismatic Vulnerability.” Hyperallergic, August 10. Lloyd-Smith, Harriet. “Can art untangle and reclaim oppressed histories?: Cecilia Vicuña.” Wallpaper*, August. Herrera, Suzanne. “In Conversation: Cecilia Vicuña with Suzanne Herrera.” The Brooklyn Rail, July/August. Gac-Artigas, Gustavo. “‘Sol y dar y dad’: Cecilia Vicuña, una chilena en el Guggenheim.” Letralia Tierra de Letras, July 29. Gural, Natasha. “Stupendous Restored Eva Hesse Masterwork, Must-See Cecilia Vicuña And Kandinsky Exhibitions, Worth A Day At The Guggenheim.” Forbes, July 12. Urist, Jacoba. “Who Is Cecilia Vicuña, and Why Is Her Art Now Receiving So Much Attention?” ARTnews, June 29. Di Liscia, Valentina. “Cecilia Vicuña Sees Venice Through Her Mother’s Eyes.” Hyperallergic, June 26. Garatti, Barbara. “Palabrarmas, le armi di parole di Cecilia Vicuña.” Il Giornale Dell’arte, July 26. Budick, Ariella. “Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña asks urgent cosmic questions at the Guggenheim.” Financial Times, June 23. Cotter, Holland. “The Precarious Art of Cecilia Vicuña.” The New York Times, June 9. Davis, Ben. “What Does It Mean to Be a ‘Biennial Artist,’ Anyway? Here Are the Traits That Unite the Most Successful Practitioners.” Artnet, June 9. Hyland, Catherine, dir. “Meet the Artists: Cecilia Vicuña.” Art Basel, June 3. Video. Dozier, Ayanna. “Cecilia Vicuña Liberates the Body and the Land in Her New Guggenheim Retrospective.” Artsy, June 1. Katz, Matt. “The First New York Retrospective of Chilean Artist Cecilia Vicuña.” WNYC, June 1. Broadcast. “La exposición en el Guggenheim de Cecilia Vicuña captura el arte perdido del quipu.” Canal 10, June 1. Torrens, Claudia. “Chilena Cecilia Vicuña protagoniza muestra en el Guggenheim.” Chicago Tribune, May 27. Gómez-Upegui, Salomé. “Cecilia Vicuña’s Guggenheim Exhibition Captures the Lost Art of the Quipu.” W Magazine, May 27. Bressanin, Anna, dir. “Are we entering a post anthropocentric era?” BBC Reel, May 19. Video.    McDonald, Maya Asha. “Cecilia Vicuña Had to Repaint One of Her Works in the Venice Biennale Because a Friend Lost It When Moving Into a New House.” Artnet News, May 11. Vicuña, Cecilia. “The Traveling Word: Cecilia Vicuña on AMAzone Palabrarmas.” MoMA Magazine, May 10. Scott, Andrea K. “Summer Art Preview.” The New Yorker, May 6. Peterson, Vanessa. “Editors’ Picks: The 5 Best Showings at the 59th Venice Biennale.” Frieze, April 29. Graeber, Laurel. “Coming Soon to the Guggenheim: Words, Words, Words.” The New York Times, April 27. Toledo, Manuel. “La extraordinaria carrera de Cecilia Vicuña, la chilena que recibió el León de Oro en la Bienal de Venecia 2022.” BBC Mundo, April 25. Sutton, Kate. “Sweet Dreaming: Kate Sutton at the 59th Venice Biennale.” Artforum, April 22. Peterson, Vanessa. “The Collective Feminist Agency of ‘The Milk of Dreams.’” Frieze, April 21. Greenberger, Alex. “The Best Art in the 2022 Venice Biennale’s Main Show, From Fragrant Sculptures to Kinky Body Horror.” ARTnews, April 20. Velasco, David. “What Dreams May Come: Cecilia Alemani talks with David Velasco about the 59th Venice Biennale.” Artforum, April. Lesauvage, Magali. “Cecilia Vicuña invitée du Turbine Hall et du Guggenheim.” Le Quotidien De L’Art, March 31. “Cecilia Vicuña chosen for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall commission.” Artforum, March 30. Durón, Maximilíano. “Cecilia Vicuña, Tireless Maker of Poignant Sculptures on the Precarity of Life, Selected for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall Commission.” ARTnews, March 30. Harris, Gareth. “Chilean artist and activist Cecilia Vicuña—known for her epic textile works—will take over Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall this autumn.” The Art Newspaper, March 30. Retamal, Pablo. “Cecilia Vicuña a Londres: expondrá obra textil en la Tate Modern.” La Tercera, March 30. “Katharina Fritsch and Cecilia Vicuña awarded Venice Biennale’s Golden Lions.” Artforum, March 8. Harris, Gareth. “Katharina Fritsch and Cecilia Vicuña awarded Venice Biennale Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement.” The Art Newspaper, March 8. Gaskin, Sam. “Colomboscope Festival Unpacks the Cecilia Vicuña Line ‘Language is Migrant’.” Ocula, February 1. Loic, Erika. “The Once and Future Histories of the Book: Decolonial Interventions into the Codex, Chronicle, and Khipu.”Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, vol. 4, no. 1. Pickstone, Charles. “Venice Biennale The Milk of Dreams,” Art and Christianity, 110. Rio, León Belen. “Textiles maternos: una revolución reflexiva de las mujeres latinoamericanas frente al patriarcado social,” Arte y Políticas de Identidad, vol. 26.

2021 Sharp, Sarah Rose. “Films by Mona Hatoum, Allora & Calzadilla, Theo Eshetu and Others to Be Screened Online by MOCA Toronto.” Hyperallergic, November 8. Scarpa, Steve. “’The Language in Common’ on Exhibit in Zilkha Gallery.” Wesleyan University News, September 21. Scott, Andrea K. “Fall Art Preview.” The New Yorker, August 6. Garieri, Roberta. “Carolina Castro Jorquera, El Camino de la conciencia: Mira Schendel / Victor Grippo / Cecilia Vicuña.” Critique d’art, July 05. Forteza, José. “Pertubatriz del Orden.” Vogue Latinoamérica, May. Pujol Duran, Jèssica. ”The Performative Forum: Women, Body and Memory in the Foro de Escritores Chile.” Mistral, vol. 1, no. 1. Llyod-Smith, Harriet. “13th Shanghai Biennale reaches a climax at Power Station of Art.” Wallpaper*, April 27. “Cecilia Vicuña at CA2M Centro de Arte dos de Mayo.” Artviewer, April 19. Chen, Qi’an, and Cai Xuejiao. “Major Contemporary Art Exhibition Opens in Shanghai.” Sixth Tone, April 16. Borutzky, Daniel. “Cecilia Vicuña: The Colour of Compassion.” Ocula, March 31. Loos, Ted. “In the Studio with Cecilia Vicuña.” Galerie, March 12. “Portfolio: Cecilia Vicuña.” Artforum, March. McHugh, Fionnuala. “Her climate change art is finally being recognised: Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña and how the world finally caught up with her.” South China Morning Post, February 18. Albrecht, Elliat. “Seoul: 6 must-see shows.” Art Basel, February 16. Segre, Erica. “Transtexuality and the Precarious Materials of Dissent (1973): Radicalism in Cecilia Vicuña, Felipe Ehrenberg and the Beau Geste Press (1970-1976).” Bulletin of Latin American Research, vol. 40, no. 2. Dasseleer, Camille. “Identidades ch'ixi en el borderland : el multilingüismo decolonial en dos obras poéticas de Cecilia Vicuña y de Pilar Rodríguez Aranda.” Mitologias Hoy, vol. 23, no. 1. Frenkel Barretto, Eleonora. “Cecília Vicuña, o baile de los chinos e as sementes ancestrais de futuro.” Revista Linguagem & Ensino, vol. 24, no. 1. Valdebenito, Lorena. “Música e imagen: Usos del cuerpo fragmentado para un pensamiento estético femenino en Cecilia Vicuña y Violeta Parra.” OPUS, vol. 27, no. 1. Juliff, Toby and Tierney, Tricia. “They Are Always There.” Latin American and latinx visual culture, vol. 3, no. 4. "The Time Is Now: Writing Prompts and Exercises." Poets & Writers Magazine, vol. 49, no. 5. Santos, Renata Ribeiro-dos. “Artistas mujeres de América Latina en exposiciones en España: las invitadas /Women artists from Latin America in exhibitions in Spain: the guests.” Arte, individuo y sociedad, vol. 33, no. 3.

2020 Burke, Harry. “Cecilia Vicuña’s Arte Precario Reawakened My Enduring Love of the Sea.” Elephant, September 1. Puppo, María Lucía. “"The Place of Action": Geopoetics and Politics in Cecilia Vicuña 's The Precarious (2016).” Universum (Talca), vol. 35, no. 2. Barros, María José. “Aguas y ríos: Activismo, descolonización y naturaleza en Cecilia Vicuña y Ana Tijoux.” Latin American Research Review, vol. 55, no. 3. Dasseleer, Camille. “La hibridez como heteronomía de la poesía contemporánea: El caso de la obra de Cecilia Vicuña.” Actio Nova, no. 4. Mullen, Claire. “For over Five Decades, Cecilia Vicuña Has Made Prescient, Rebellious Art.” Artsy, April 9. Kosick, Rebecca. “’El milk del translate’: Poetic Undifference in Cecilia Vicuña's Instan.” MLN, March. Uszerowicz, Monica. “Cecilia Vicuña: Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami.” Artforum, March. Batet, Janet. “Cecilia Vicuña: Hilar el alma.” El Nuevo Herald, February 26. Wilk, Elvia. “Eine Frage Der Ethik: Do The Right Thing.” Monopol, January 20. Macchiavello, Carla. “Escrito en la neblina, tejido con el cuerpo: el impulso textil en una instalación de Cecilia Vicuña.” H-ART, no. 6.

2019 Rinaldi, Ray Mark. “For Cecilia Vicuña, 'Consciousness Is the Art'.” The New York Times, December 3. Mercer, Lucy. “The erotic socialism of Cecilia Vicuña.” ArtReview, December. “The Most Important Artworks of the 2010s.” ARTnews. November 28. Bachraty, Dagmar. “La experiencia estética de la mirada: el ver y oír en la conformación de la palabra tejida en la obra Quipu Mapocho de Cecilia Vicuña.” Letrônica, vol. 12, no. 3. Bachraty, Dagmar. "Un acto de tejer y destejer la memoria. Los quipus de Cecilia Vicuña y el arte actual". H-ART, no 5. Greenberger, Alex. “Amid Late-Career Renaissance, Cecilia Vicuña Wins Spain’s Top Art Prize.” ARTnews, November 21. Williams, Maxwell. “Meet the 6 Rising-Star Artists Competing for the Coveted $100,000 Hugo Boss Prize.” Artnet News, November 19. Greenberger, Alex. “Artist Cecilia Vicuña on Chile Protests: ‘It May Be a Preview of What Awaits People Around the World.’” ARTnews, November 12. Groult, Charlotte. “Cecilia Vicuña, the mystery of the Inca quipus.” Switch (on Paper), October 31. Mac Giolla Léith, Caoimhín. “‘An Awareness of Disappearance’: an Interview with Poet, Activist and Artist Cecilia Vicuña.” Frieze, October 29. Marambio, Camila. “The Two in the One: Cecilia Vicuña's Pantera Negray Yo (ii) (Black Panther and Me [ii}).” MoMA Post: Notes on Modern & Contemporary Art Around the Globe, October 23. Tobin, Amy. “Homage to Vicuña.” Burlington Contemporary, August 28. Witkowski, Jacqueline. “Threading together politics and poetics in Cecilia Vicuña’s fiber art.” Journal of Textile Design Research & Practice, vol. 7, no. 1. Frenkel-Barretto, Eleonora. “Poética do 'ser'-com em 'I tu', de Cecília Vicuña: provocações para a tradução do estrangeiro em 'performance'.” Gragoatá, May/August. Selvin, Clarie. “Perez Art Museum Miami Acquires Works by 11 Artists, Including Abbas Kiarostami and Cecilia Vicuña.” ARTnews, May 15. Armstrong, Annie. “Winners of 2019 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts Named, Including Cecilia Vicuña and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz.” ARTnews, May 10. López, Miguel A. “Dissident Bodies.” Artforum, May. Oliveira, Márcia. “From Word to Thread: Cecilia Vicuña’s Fluid Textures.” Revista Estudos Feministas, vol. 27 no. 1. Cortese, Julia. “Restos supervivientes. Análisis del Quipu Mapocho, de Cecilia Vicuña.” Arte e Investigación, no. 15. Barros, María José. “Artistic Activism in Semi YA (2000) by Cecilia Vicuña: Towards a Decolonization of Knowledge and Nature.” Taller de Letras, no. 65. Waltrick do Amarante, Dirce. “Entrevista Cecília Vicuña.” Revista da Anpoll, vol. 1 no. 50. Greenberger, Alex. “United States Artists Names 2019 Fellows, Including Firelei Báez, Wu Tsang, and Cecilia Vicuña.” ARTnews, January 22.

2018 Kan, Elianna. “Cecilia Vicuña.” BOMB, Winter. Wyma, Chloe. “Cecilia Vicuña: Lehmann Maupin.” Artforum, November. Daus Neville, Lisa. “Memory of the Future: Cecilia Vicuña’s Participatory Poetics and Murray Bookchin’s Unfolding Dialectical Freedom.” Glimpse, vol. 19. Robinson, Rachel Elizabeth. “Plastic Poetry of the Page: Cecilia Vicuña’s Instan.” Latin American Literary Review, vol. 45, no. 90. Ramírez, Carolina Vega. “La Tribu No y CADA: neovanguardia y (e)utopía como preámbulo del devenir.” Taller de Letras, no. 62. “At the MFA, Cecilia Vicuña makes memory tangible.” The Boston Globe, November 7. Leslie, Richard. “Cecilia Vicuña: Brooklyn Museum and Lehmann Maupin.” ArtNexus, September/November. Brostoff, Alex. “The Dazzling and Dooming Art of Cecilia Vicuña.” Hyperallergic, September 25. Moffitt, Evan. “Cecilia Vicuña’s Spatial Poems to Female Resilience.” Frieze, July 16. “Cecilia Vicuña.” The New Yorker, July 9 & 16. “6 Things T Editors Like Right Now.” T: The New York Times Style Magazine, June 14. “Cecilia Vicuña on Female Power and Climate Change.” Elephant, June 13. Cascone, Sarah, and Caroline Goldstein. “Shows! Shows! Shows! 34 New York Must-See Gallery Exhibitions to See This May.” Artnet News, May 1. “Legacies of 1968: Cecilia Vicuña.” ArtReviewAsia, May. “Getting Their Due.” Artsy, April 30. Biczel, Dorota. “Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen.” CAA Reviews, April 6. “Art Industry News.” Artnet News, February 8. Gerlis, Melanie. “The Art Market.” Financial Times, February 2. Bryan-Wilson, Julia. “Feminist Forms.” Flash Art International, January/February.

2017 Birnbaum, Daniel. “Thinking Twice.” Artforum, September. Lynd, Juliet, and Ana Roncero-Bellido. “Art, Poetry, and Testimonio in Cecilia Vicuña's Saboramo (1973).” Letras Femeninas, vol .43, no. 1. Wilson, Michael. “Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen.” BOMB, July 15. Albuquerque, Carlos, and Liliana Gladys Essenwanger. “Artista chilena denuncia la violencia y llama a una revolución.” Deutsche Welle, June 27. Pluecker, John. “An Un-Memorial to All That Has Been Lost: Cecilia Vicuña’s Precarious Assemblages.” Pelican Bomb, June 21. Schmidt, Heinrich. “Documenta 14 Kassel Highlights (VIDEO).” Huffington Post, June 9. David, Ben. “Not in Kassel? See Photo Highlights of Adam Szymczyk’s Ambitious documenta 14.” Artnet News, June 8. Lippard, Lucy. “Floating Between Past and Future: The Indigenisation of Environmental Politics.” Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry, Spring/Summer. Espinoza, Denisse. “Cecilia Vicuña, artista visual: ‘Mi obra completa es un acto solitario y a la vez está en continua interacción.’” Culto, May 8. “‘We can wake up if we wish’: Autumn Royal Interviews Cecilia Vicuña.” Cordite Poetry Review, May 1. Collymore, Nan. “Art and Textile Politics: An interview with Author and Professor Julia Bryan-Wilson.” Teeth Magazine, April 12. Amirkhani, Jordan. “Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen at Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans.” DailyServing, April 4. García-Huidobro, Soledad. “El silencio poético de Cecilia Vicuña llega a Documenta.” LaTercera, January 28.

2016 McQuaid, Cate. “Art as politics in ’70s Chile.” Boston Globe, November 22. Sepúlveda, Magda. “Cecilia Vicuña: La subjetividad poética como una operación contracanónica.” Revista Chilena de Literatura, no. 57. Coleman, Vera. “El huso en el centro del universo: el entrelazamiento cuántico en la poesía visual de Cecilia Vicuña.” Letras Femeninas, vol. 42 no. 1.

2015 Ariz Castillo, Yenny Karen. “Ecologia y literature en la poesía Chilena contemporánea: ‘Semi ya’, de Cecilia Vicuña, y ‘Cardosanto’, de Soledad Fariña.” Mitologías Hoy, vol. 12. Perich, Macarena. “Cecilia Vicuña with Camila Marambio.” The Miami Rail, March 5. Lorca, Ornella. “El erotismo femenino y la construcción simbólica del cuerpo en Sabor a mí de Cecilia Vicuña.” Revista Internacional de Culturas y Literaturas, no. 17.

2014 Alvergue, José Felipe. “The Material Etymologies of Cecilia Vicuña Art, Sculpture, and Poetic Communities.” The Minnesota Review, no. 82.  Alvergue, José Felipe. “Twentieth-Century Experiments in Form: A Critical Re-Reading of Cecilia Vicuña's Indigenism as Episteme.” Comparative Literature, vol. 66, no. 2. Amich, Candice. “From Precarity to Planetarity: Cecilia Vicuña’s Kon Kon.” The Global South, vol. 7, no. 2. “Artists for Democracy: El archivo de Cecilia Vicuña.” elciudadano.com, June 2. “Artists for Democracy. El archivo de Cecilia Vicuña.” El Mostrador, February 10. Zúñiga, Diego. “Zen surada.” Qué Pasa, January 29. Quezada, Lucy, and Francisco Villarroel. “A Conversation with Cecilia Vicuña.” Artishock, January 13.

2013 Ariz Castillo, Yenny. “Los Animales en la Wik'uña de Cecilia Vicuña: Figuras Opuestas y Complementarias.” La Palabra, vol. 23. Skinner, Jonathan. “Rajado: Word and Knot in Cecilia Vicuña’s Kon Kon,” Rattapallax, no. 21.

2012 Gamboa, Julieta. “Cecilia Vicuña. Trama y urdimbre de la palabra: el tejido / texto.” Revista de Literaturas Populares, July/December. Clark, Meredith G. “Warping the Word: The Technology of Weaving in the Poetry of Jorge Eduardo Eielson and Cecilia Vicuña.” Textile, vol. 10, no. 3.

2011 Phillips Brown, Julie. ““touch in transit”: Manifestation / Manifestación in Cecilia Vicuña’s cloud-net.” Contemporary Women's Writing, vol. 5 no. 3. Bennett, Tamryn. “The Kaleidoscope of Visual Poetry: New Approaches to Visual Literacy.” English in Australia, vol. 46, no. 3.

2008 Guerrero, Pedro Pablo. “El Libro Censurado de Cecilia Vicuña." Revista de Libros, El Mercurio, January 6, 2008.

2005 Lynd, Juliet. “Precarious Resistance: Weaving Opposition in the Poetry of Cecilia Vicuña.” PMLA, October.

2002 de Zegher, Catherine. “The Inside is the Outside: The Relational as the (Feminine) Space of the Radical.” Invisible Culture, no. 4.

2000 Keefe Ugalde, Sharon. “Hilos y Palabras: Diseños de una Ginotradición (Rosario Castellanos, Pat Mora, y Cecilia Vicuña).” INTI, Spring. Mena, Catalina. “Cecilia Vicuña, La Heroína de la Subjetividad.” Las Ultimas Noticias, March 26. Zalaquett, Jose. “Semiya, Cecilia Vicuña, Año de Semillas.” Qué Pasa, March 25. Rosenfeld, Daniela. “SEMI YA de Cecilia Vicuña.” El Mercurio, March 25.

1999 Richard, Frances. “Cecilia Vicuña.” Artforum, October. Sirmans, Franklin. “Cecilia Vicuña, Cloud-Net.” Time Out, June 24. Cotter, Holland. “ART IN REVIEW; Cecilia Vicuña – ‘Cloud-Net.’” The New York Times, May 21. Feely, Paul. “Cecilia Vicuña, Dream Weaver.” New York Magazine, May 10.

1990 Levin, Kim. “Cecilia Vicuña at Exit Art.” Village Voice, May 9-15.

1988 Bianchi, Soledad. “Pasaron desde aquel ayer ya tantos años, o acerca de Cecilia Vicuña y la ‘Tribu No.’” Hispamérica, December. Paternoso, César. “Cecilia Vicuña.” Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, vol. 22, no. 39.

Published Audio Recordings

2022 Cecilia Vicuña & Ricardo Gallo, La niebla vital, Wiraquochan, 12” Vinyl, Hueso Records.

2012 Kuntur Ko: Poems & Chants by Cecilia Vicuña, LP Record, Torn Sound Records.

2004 the bright light of confusion & doubt: Cecilia Vicuña in performance: poetry & chants, sona sound.

Public Collections

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Berkeley, CA. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain de Lorraine, Metz, France. Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile. Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima, Peru. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile. Museum of Contemporary Art MAC, Santiago, Chile. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL. Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. Tate, London, UK.