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Margarita Paksa

Margarita Paksa
Argentine Multimedia Artist

Awards

  • Konex Award 2002: Mixed Media, Five-Year Period 1992–1996
  • Konex Award 1992: Mixed Media, Five-Year Period 1982–1986

Short Biography

She was a tenured professor and researcher at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the National University of La Plata (UNLP). She taught sculpture and project techniques at the National University Institute of the Arts (IUNA). Among her most recent solo exhibitions are El Lenguaje, el Poder y el Dinero at Galería Ruth Benzacar; Installations at the Walter Phillips Gallery in Canada; El Partido de Tenis, a digital video installation at the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires; and Multimedia Installations at Museo del Barro in Asunción, Paraguay.

Her collective exhibitions include Works of the Sixties at Galería Ruth Benzacar; Translocal Poll at Ipso Facto Gallery, Nantes, France, and The Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, UK; II Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil; and In the Midst of the Media at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires.

She received numerous distinctions, such as the FRP Fellowship from the Government of Canada, the First Painting Prize of the Fortabat Foundation, a residency at The Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, the Installations Prize at the 5th International Art Biennale of Cairo, Egypt, and the Leonardo Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA).

Extended Biography

Born in Buenos Aires on May 8, 1932, she lived and worked between Argentina and Canada. A Superior Professor of Sculpture, she developed a wide-ranging artistic practice alternating throughout her career between sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, industrial design, objects, installations, multimedia art, video, and writing. Since 1964, with her incorporation into the Instituto Di Tella, she has been an active participant in multimedia visual arts. She was one of the founders of conceptual and political art trends in Argentina during the 1960s and produced numerous videos.

Her work achieved international recognition in 2006 at La Scoperta del Corpo Elettronico. Arte e video negli anni ’70 in Turin, Italy, for Tiempo de Descuento (1978), considered the first Argentine video artwork. She held a significant teaching career as Professor of Multimedia in both undergraduate and postgraduate programs at IUNA. As a researcher with CONICET, she directed multiple projects on “art in public space” and “net.art.”

In 2004, the Espigas Foundation published her bilingual book Projects on the Discourse of Myself, about the projects she presented to the Instituto Di Tella in the 1960s. That same year, she was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship to further her research. She lectured and conducted seminars at various national and international conferences and round tables, including events at MALBA, the Faculty of Fine Arts in La Plata, and the Faculty of San Carlos in Valencia, Spain, on topics of art, politics, and public space. During her exhibitions in Canada, she also taught courses at the Faculty of Arts in Ottawa, New Brunswick, and Concordia University in Montreal.

She published numerous essays, including studies on the Rorschach test plates, and on Marcel Duchamp and Macedonio Fernández. Since 1996, she wrote extensively on art and technology, a central theme in her multimedia artistic career. She served as jury member in teaching competitions at major Art Faculties in Tucumán, Rosario, and Córdoba, and also worked as curator at the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, in Exercises by Ricardo Carreira.

Her works are included in important national and international museums and private collections. Among her distinctions are the First Painting Prize from the Fortabat Foundation, the Multimedia Prize from Faena Art District, the Guggenheim Fellowship (2004), and the Installations Prize at the 5th International Art Biennale of Cairo (1994).

She has developed a significant international presence with Henrique Faria Fine Art Gallery, in exhibitions such as Volta 5, arteBA, Pinta New York, ARCO Madrid, and Art Brussels in 2009; Pinta London in 2010; New Conceptualisms and a critically acclaimed show in New York. In 2011, she presented a solo project at ARCO Madrid.

At the time, she was preparing a book on Minimalism to be published by MNBA Neuquén, as well as an anthology of her works to accompany her retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires.

Degrees

  • 1955 Superior Professor, awarded by the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes “Ernesto de la Cárcova.”

Teaching Positions

  • 2001 Interim Full Professor, Levels 1 and 2, Project Workshop in Sculpture, IUNA – ongoing.
  • 1997 Interim Full Professor, 1st Year, Drawing Teaching Program, Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes P. Pueyrredón.
  • 1987 Tenure-track Full Professor, Semi-dedication, Chair of Drawing II, III, IV, Faculty of Fine Arts, National University of La Plata (UNLP).
  • 1985 Full Professor of Sculpture, 3rd Year, Teaching Program, ENBA P. Pueyrredón.
  • 1984–1986 Full Professor of Composition Systems, ENBA P. Pueyrredón (leave of absence thereafter).
  • 1974–1975 Teaching Assistant, Communication Systems Department, Chair of Arch. Roberto Doberti, Faculty of Architecture, UNLP.

Academic and Institutional Roles

  • 2001 Member of Advisory Jury for Painting Competitions, National University of Rosario, Faculty of Arts. Member of Advisory Jury for 18 teaching competitions, UN Rosario.
  • 2000 Jury Member, Premio Mosto & Rojas, Art Gallery, Internet Works Competition.
  • Curator of the exhibition Ejercicios de Ricardo Carreira, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires (2002).
  • 1997 Jury Member, Salón de la Mujer, Provincial Museum of La Plata.
  • Jury Member, Advisory Competitions, National University of Córdoba, Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities.
  • 1994 Jury Member, Sculpture Prize, Casa de Castagnino, Rosario.
  • 1993 Jury Member, Sculpture, Biennial of Young Art, Buenos Aires.
  • Jury Member, Painting Competition, Honorable City Council, Buenos Aires.
  • 1992 Jury Member, 3rd Provincial Sculpture Salon, Resistencia, Chaco.
  • 1989 Jury Member, Advisory Board for Teaching Assistant Competitions, UNLP.
  • Jury Member, Advisory Board for Associate Professor Competitions, UNLP.
  • 1988–1989 Advisor on Higher Education to the National Director of Artistic Education, Prof. Iván Cosentino.
  • 1987–1988 Acting Rector, Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes P. Pueyrredón.
  • 1985–1988 Vice-Rector for Normalization, Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes P. Pueyrredón.
  • 1985 Jury Member, Advisory Board, Full and Associate Professors Competitions, UN Rosario.
  • Jury Member, Advisory Board, Full Professors Competitions, UN Tucumán.

Workshops and Seminars Taught

  • 2001 Workshop Alternative Arts (30 hrs), Municipal Museum of Art, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz.
  • 1999 Postgraduate Workshop Multimedia (30 hrs), ENBA P. Pueyrredón.
  • 1995 Postgraduate Workshop Installations (theoretical-practical, 30 hrs), Faculty of Fine Arts, UNLP.
  • Postgraduate Workshop Objects and Installations (theoretical-practical, 30 hrs), ENBA P. Pueyrredón.
  • 1994 Postgraduate Seminar Alternative Arts, Minimal and Conceptual Art (theoretical-practical), National University of Rosario.
  • 1992 Alternative Arts (30 hrs), Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires.
  • 1991 Postgraduate Seminar Minimalism and Conceptual Art (theoretical-practical, 30 hrs), UNLP.
  • 1989 Installations, University of Ottawa, Canada.
  • Installations, University of New Brunswick, Sackville, Canada.

Training and Courses Attended

  • 1999 Photoshop Computing (30 hrs), Prodaltec.
  • 1998 Dreamweaver and Photoshop for Web Design (The Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada).
  • 1994 Holography Course (theoretical-practical, 35 hrs), Buenos Aires Holographic Art Center.
  • 1993 Application of Laser-Color Photocopier (20 hrs), KONEX-CANON.
  • Video Postproduction Fellowship (20 hrs), Prof. Francisco Utray, awarded by ICI.

Conferences and Round Tables (Selected)

  • 1998 Round Table Speaker: Changing the Gaze: Approaches to Digital Aesthetics, IUNA.
  • Lecture: Art and Technology, Spain Cultural Center, Córdoba.
  • 1996 Round Table Speaker: Presentation of Poemas by Ricardo Carreira, Centro Cultural R. Rojas, UBA.
  • Lecture: Videoclips, Arte Canal.
  • Round Table: The First Years of Video, ICI.
  • 1995 Round Table Speaker: Art in the 1990s, ENBA P. Pueyrredón.
  • Round Table: Tribute to Juan Acha, Latin American Institute of Aesthetics, Faculty of Philosophy, UBA.
  • Round Table: Politics in Argentine Art, Escuela Freudiana de la Argentina.
  • 1994 Four Lectures: New Alternatives, Centro Cultural de la Ciudad, Asunción, Paraguay.
  • Lecture: Art and Virtual Reality, History of Argentine and Latin American Art, UBA.
  • 1993 Round Table: Art, Education and Power, Centro Cultural R. Rojas, UBA.
  • Round Table: Joseph Beuys, Museum of Modern Art.
  • Round Table: Postmodernism, Art and Psychoanalysis, Argentine Psychoanalytic Association.
  • 1992 Round Table: Conceptual Art, Galería Ruth Benzacar.
  • 1990 Lecture: Argentine Art, University of Montreal, Canada.
  • 1984 Round Table: The Artist and His Work, CAYC, Buenos Aires.
  • 1968–1969 Round Table: Tucumán Arde (preliminary meetings, Rosario and Buenos Aires).
  • Curator, Round Table Cycle: Culture ’68, weekly sessions Dec. 1968–Mar. 1969.

Publications and Symposium Participation

  • 2002 Projects (Book, in preparation), UN Rosario.
  • 2001 Speaker: XI Conference on Art Reflection, Faculty of Arts, UN Tucumán.
  • Speaker: Art and University Conference, UN Rosario.
  • 2000 Speaker: Art and Technology, Municipal Theatre of Bahía Blanca.
  • 1998 Speaker: II Mercosur Visual Arts Biennial – Symposium on Art and Technology, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
  • Speaker: The Di Tella Experience and Cultural Modernization, UN Rosario.
  • 1997 Author and publisher of Sobre el Discurso de Mí y Proyectos, 41 pages, 200 copies.
  • 1996 Speaker: Art and Science, 1st Congress of Art and Design Researchers, UNLP.
  • 1989 Contributor: Rencontres, Encuentros: Writers and Artists from Argentina and Quebec, Les Editions Sans Nom Inc., Canada.
  • 1986 Article: Participatory Education, Revista Plural, No. 3.
  • 1984–1983 Papers: A Reading of the Rorschach Plates, presented at International and Latin American Rorschach Congresses (Barcelona, Montevideo, Buenos Aires).
  • 1982 Article: Condensation as Metaphor in Marcel Duchamp, ARTINF No. 35–36.
  • 1980 Article: Macedonio Fernández, ARTINF No. 22–23.
  • 1978 Paper: Encounter with Macedonio Fernández, CAYC Symposium, Buenos Aires.

Research

  • 1998 The Beginnings of Conceptual Art in Argentina during the 1960s, UNLP.
  • Categorized by UNLP as Researcher, Category 3.

Awards and Distinctions

  • 1998 FRP Fellowship in Canadian Studies, Communications and Media – Conceptual Art in Canada.
  • 1999 First Painting Prize, Fortabat Foundation, Última Escena II (backlight).
  • McLuhan Program Fellowship, Toronto, Canada.
  • Special Invitation: II Mercosur Biennial, Art and Technology (Web project).
  • Thematic Residency, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada (3 months).
  • 1997 Video Production Award for Tenis, Argentine Association of Art Critics.
  • 1996 Leonardo Prize for Artistic Career, MNBA.
  • Career Award, Argentine Association of Art Critics.
  • 1995 Special Invitation, Between Heaven and Earth, Centro Cultural Recoleta.
  • Honorable Mention, National Museum of Fine Arts, Fundación Banco República.
  • 1994 Prize for Installations, 5th International Art Biennale of Cairo, Egypt.
  • 1993 ICI Fellowship in Video Postproduction.
  • 1992 Konex Award for Visual Arts, Mixed Media.
  • 1990 Selected Video, International Video Art, MNBA.
  • 1989 Selected Video, 1st Argentine Video Exhibition, ICI.
  • 1979 Latin American Printmaking Triennial, MNBA, Special Jury Mention.
  • 1968 Visual Experiences ’68, Instituto Di Tella (funded project).
  • 1967 Visual Experiences ’67, Instituto Di Tella (funded project).
  • Good Design Award, CIDI, Buenos Aires (for furniture and Relaxing Egg).

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2001 Recording for Canal A in the series “Desde el Di Tella”.
  • 2000 ATC, Special Exhibition of Margarita Paksa’s Videos, 01/22/2000, in tribute.
  • 1999 “Language, Power and Money”, Ruth Benzacar Gallery, digital prints.
  • 1998 “Selection of Drawings”, Arte x Arte Gallery, Buenos Aires.
  • “TENNIS”, backlights, Casa Malanca, Centro Cultural España, Córdoba.
  • 1997 “THE TENNIS MATCH”, digital video and installation, Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires.
  • 1994 “Multimedia Installations”, Museo del Barro, Centro de Artes Visuales, Asunción, Paraguay.
  • “Pastels and Acrylics”, Pequeña Galería, Asunción, Paraguay.
  • 1991 “Pastels, Acrylics and Drawings”, D & E Gallery, Buenos Aires.
  • “Journey Through Styles”, Centoira Gallery, Harrods Space, Buenos Aires.
  • 1990 “Retrospective of Works”, Museo Municipal de Artes Plásticas Eduardo Sívori, C.C. Recoleta, Buenos Aires.
  • “Appropriation of Georgia O’Keeffe”, Fulford Gallery, Ottawa, Canada.
  • 1989 “Burnt Papers”, Owen’s Gallery, New Brunswick, Canada.
  • “Objects and Installations”, Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes, General Roca, Río Negro, Argentina.
  • 1986 “Memory”, Installations and Sculptures, Gallery of the Centro Cultural San Martín.
  • “Drawings”, Retrospective 1976–1981, National Library, Ottawa, Canada, sponsored by the Argentine Embassy.
  • 1985 “Narrative Art”, Objects, Gallery of the Centro Cultural San Martín, Buenos Aires.
  • 1982 “Drawing Classes”, Galería del Retiro, Buenos Aires.
  • 1981 “Drawings”, Cabinet of Graphic Arts, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • “On the Discourse of Myself”, Installation and Texts, A Space Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
  • 1977 “She is Food”, Reflection on Female Identity, Balmaceda Gallery, Buenos Aires.
  • 1976 “The Meal”, Symbolic Reflection on the Object of Consumption, Balmaceda Gallery, Buenos Aires.
  • 1965 “Caloric”, Constructions in Polyester and Vinyl, Environment, Gallery for Freedom of Culture, Buenos Aires.
  • 1964 “Irons”, Rioboo-Nueva Gallery, Buenos Aires.

Major Group Exhibitions

  • 2002 “Paksa, Puente, Orensanz”, Ruth Benzacar Gallery, minimal/conceptual.
  • 2001 “Banco Nación Prize”, C.C. Recoleta, Cronopios Hall, neon art, Gothic script.
  • “Banco Ciudad Prize”, National Museum of Fine Arts, acrylic sculpture “Silence”.
  • 2000 “Plastics Industry Chamber”, Palermo Fairgrounds, Buenos Aires.
  • “PRODALTEC Prize”, National Museum of Fine Arts, Digital Prints, 07/18/2000.
  • “COSTANTINI Prize”, National Museum of Fine Arts, digital backlight, 08/03/2000.
  • “Electronic Art”, Music and Videos, Municipal Theatre of Bahía Blanca.
  • “Banco Nación Prize”, C.C. Recoleta, Cronopios Hall, digital art “Reality”, 12/13/2000.
  • “Creativity Award”, National Endowment for the Arts, C.C. Recoleta, 12/22/2000.
  • Municipal Museum of Buenos Aires J.B. Castagnino, Rosario.
  • 1999 “Fortabat Prize 99”, National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires.
  • “Argentine Photographic Art”, Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, backlight.
  • “II Mercosur Biennial”, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Website “The Tennis Match”.
  • “Digital Art”, Siggraph, National Museum of Fine Arts.
  • “Biennial of Art”, Bahía Blanca, digital print.
  • “Translocal Poll”, Ipso Facto Gallery, Nantes, France (E-mail art).
  • “Translocal Poll”, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, England.
  • “In the Midst of the Media”, National Museum of Fine Arts, exhibited “Communications” and “Relaxing Egg” (1967).
  • “Action Art 1960–1990”, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires.
  • “The Disappearance: Memory, Art and Politics”, Centro Cultural Recoleta.
  • “End of the World”, ICI, Buenos Aires, presentation of the website “The Tennis Match”.
  • “Digital Arts Conference”, Centro Cultural España, Córdoba.
  • 1998 “Feminine, Plural”, National Museum of Fine Arts, exhibited digital backlights of “TENNIS”.
  • “THE TENNIS MATCH”, 4th International Biennial of Experimental Art, Museum of Modern Art, Mendoza.
  • “Experiences 1968”, re-edition at PROA, Paksa exhibited “Communications”.
  • “Women”, by special invitation, exhibited “THE TENNIS MATCH”, C.C. Recoleta.
  • “Techno-image”, Provincial Museum of La Plata, curated by Rodrigo Alonso.
  • 1997 “THE TENNIS MATCH”, drawings from 1967 and video projection, Salas de Cultura.
  • “Drawings”, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires.
  • “Biennial of Art”, Bahía Blanca, Province of Buenos Aires.
  • 1996 “Ladies’ Game”, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires.
  • “Hugo del Carril Salon”, Fundación Banco de la Ciudad Prize, Museum of Modern Art.
  • “Tribute to Frida”, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires.
  • “ECO, the Last Word”, National Culture Halls, Buenos Aires.
  • 1995 “Ladies’ Game”, Municipal Museum of Fine Arts Juan C. Castagnino, Rosario, Santa Fe.
  • “Between Heaven and Earth”, special invitation, exhibition “a,e,i,o,u”, C.C. Recoleta, Buenos Aires.
  • “Banco República Prize Selection”, National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires.
  • 1994 “Between Heaven and Earth”, holographic and neon installation, 5th International Biennial of the Arts, Cairo, Egypt.
  • “The Sixties”, Ver y Estimar Honor Prize, National Museum of Fine Arts.
  • “Between Heaven and Earth”, holographic audio-installation, ICI Buenos Aires, in the exhibition “The False, the Virtual and the Real”.
  • “Between Heaven and Earth”, laser-holographic installation, International Critics, C.C. Recoleta.
  • 1993 “Biennial of Printmaking”, Costa Rica.
  • “Fourth Biennial of Visual Poetry”, Mexico City.
  • 1992 “KONEX Biennial”, National Exhibition Halls, Buenos Aires.
  • “Artists of Buenos Aires”, Museum of Art, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
  • 1991 “Underground Art”, Centro Cultural Ciudad de Buenos Aires. “The Flowers of My Country”, Angel Gallardo Station, Subway Line B.
  • “Artists of Buenos Aires”, La Tertulia, Cali, and Centro Colombo Americano, Colombia.
  • “Hoechst Prize”, Harrods Space.
  • 1990 “Artists of Buenos Aires”, Museum of Modern Art of Mexico.
  • 1989 “Ideas and Images from Argentina”, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA.
  • “Artistes Contemporaines”, Laurier Galerie, Montreal, Canada.
  • “Contemporary Artists”, Wildenstein Gallery, Buenos Aires. Presentation of the book “Rencontres”.
  • 1988 “CITIBANK Collection”, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, and Latin American Tour. “Installations”, Centro Cultural Recoleta.
  • 1968 “Visual Experiences 68”, Instituto Di Tella, Buenos Aires. Produced a 33 RPM record titled “Communications” in 350 copies. The blue side contained the obsessive description of an environment, Sanctuary of the Dream (ambiguous message), recorded at the studio of architect O. Giesso. The red side, Scorching (univocal message), contained the amorous breathing of a couple. It was presented on two turntables with headphones, to be listened to in front of a sand track at the Instituto Di Tella, where the artist imprinted her body and that of her partner (body art), leaving a trace in the sand.
  • 1967 “Tribute to Latin America”, Political Collective Exhibition, SAAP.
  • “End-of-Year Show”, Instituto Di Tella, presented multiples in editions of 10, titled COMPRESSION and SILENCE.
  • “Visual Experiences 1967”, Instituto Di Tella. Presented a technological installation: 500 WATTS, 4,635 KC, 4.5 C; a pulsating beam of light crossed two large acrylic boxes containing gaseous substances, materializing cylinders of light. The line continued with photoelectric cells producing sound when activated by the audience. This work was carried out with the collaboration of the Instituto Di Tella Electronic Laboratory, directed by Eng. Fernando von Reichenbach.
  • “Señal de Obra”, Galería de Maruja Sábato; featuring Bony, Paksa, Lamelas, Trotta, Palacios.
  • “Beyond Geometry”, Instituto Di Tella. Presented the work Corresponding Idea; fiberglass, 4 prisms (1.00 x 1.00 x 0.60 m), white on white.
  • “Art to Use”, La Flor de San Telmo, Arch. O. Giesso.
  • “Primary Structures II”, Sociedad Hebraica Argentina, curated by Jorge Glusberg.
  • “Premio Braque”, Museo de Arte Moderno. Presented Identity in Two Situations; one illuminated acrylic prism and one transparent. Minimal Art, the maximum concentration of idea with the minimum support, became her natural vehicle to begin segmenting her work and analyzing her discourse.
  • At the request of the Instituto Di Tella, presented several projects: Ultra, Tennis Match, Round Table, The Wind, and Edition of an Oral Print.
  • 1966: Objects, Galería Ronald Lambert, Buenos Aires.
  • Premio de Honor Ver y Estimar, Museo de Arte Moderno; acrylic and light
  • Premio Braque, Museo de Arte Moderno; fiberglass.
  • First Festival of Contemporary Forms, Córdoba, Argentina.
  • Plastic with Plastics, Museo de Bellas Artes, prize selection; fiberglass and light.
  • Homage to Vietnam, Collective Exhibition of Political Art, Galería Van Riel.
  • 1965: First Salon of Young Latin American Artists, Museo de Arte Moderno; iron/color.
  • 1964: Objects 64, Museo de Arte Moderno; iron and epoxy color.

Design

  • 1980: Primit-Vita, multiple, playful object, pocket sculpture; colored polyester with packaging design, CAYC, Buenos Aires.
  • 1972: Plastic Fair, São Paulo, Brazil; presented acrylic furniture.
  • 1971: 2nd Exhibition of Human Comfort, Palermo Fairgrounds, Buenos Aires; furniture.
  • 1968: ARGENPLAST, Palermo Fairgrounds; presented the first acrylic furniture in Argentina, Cámara de la Industria Plástica.
  • MAC Acrylic Furniture: co-founded with O. Cairola; production plant for the design, manufacture, and sale of acrylic furniture.
  • Special design projects for: Celulosa Argentina (with Arch. J. Kleiman); IOTTI (with Arch. Diego San Martín); Gas del Estado, Entel, Norenplast, Atenea, Miglorissi, and several architecture studios.
  • 1967: Relaxing Egg, serial object (500 units) presented at Galería La Flor de San Telmo, Arch. Osvaldo Giesso. A playful acrylic object, ironically intended to induce relaxation. For two years it was a commercial and critical success; humorist Landrú turned it into an indispensable prop for his character “Sir Jonás, the executive” in Tía Vicenta. The egg, the descriptive card, and the packaging formed a satirical take on certain conceptual art trends.
  • Awarded the Good Design Award by CIDI, 1967.

Filmography & Videos

  • 2002: El Viento, digital video.
  • 2000: Argentine-Brazilian Video, Centro de Estudios Brasileños, Buenos Aires. Acquisition of El Descanso de Loreta.
  • Produced CD-ROM Ricardo Carreira for Ejercicios de Ricardo Carreira, curated by M. Paksa at the Museo de Arte Moderno.
  • 1999: Website in English El Partido de Tenis presented at ICI: http://www.findelmundo.com.ar.
  • 1998: Bilingual website El Partido de Tenis, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada: http://artists.banff.org/paksa.
  • Interactive CD-ROM edition (2 min., multiple x20) of El Partido de Tenis.
  • Selection of Videos by M. Paksa, Casa Malanca, Córdoba.
  • Selection of Videos by M. Paksa, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada.
  • 1997: Video Cycle, Faculty of Humanities and Arts, UNR, Rosario.
  • Selection of Videos by M. Paksa, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires.
  • Tennis, Museo de Arte Moderno; 13 min., digital SVHS loop.
  • 1996: Conference on Design and Audiovisual Discourse, Universidad de Palermo.
  • 1994: It’s Late (94-05-78), Super VHS, 6:20 min., b/w, sound.
  • Buenos Aires Video No. 6, ICI, Buenos Aires.
  • Selection of Works, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Rosario.
  • Video-Creation, Current Proposals, Argentine Consulate and Colombian Center, New York, USA.
  • Sobre el Discurso de Mí, Super VHS, 19:20 min., b/w, sound.
  • 1993: El Descanso de Loreta, Super VHS digital video, 10:50 min., color, sound.
  • Metamorphosis, Super VHS digital video, 5:35 min.
  • Franco-Latin American Festival, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Chile.
  • Fortabat Video Prize, acquisition for Centro Cultural Recoleta.
  • Buenos Aires Video No. 5, ICI, Buenos Aires.
  • 1992: Bienal Konex, Video Installation, Palais de Glace.
  • Buenos Aires Video No. 3, ICI, Buenos Aires.
  • 1991: Buenos Aires Video No. 4, ICI, Buenos Aires.

Bibliography

(Translations keep titles and press names in original Spanish when contextually appropriate, with English explanation if needed.)

  • Alina Tortosa, “The Cool Sixties,” Buenos Aires Herald, 24/03/2002.
  • Ana María Battistozzi, “Argentine artists showcase works from the 1960s,” Clarín, 06/04/02.
  • Fabián Lebenglick, Página 12, Radar, 07/04/02.
  • Alberto Giúdicci, Clarín, 01/03/02.
  • Eduardo Costa, “M. Paksa at Ruth Benzacar,” Art in America, May 2000.
  • Rodrigo Alonso et al., Buenos Aires Video X: Ten Years of Video in Buenos Aires, ICI, Centro Cultural de España.
  • Horacio González, exhibition catalogue, Ruth Benzacar, 8/99.
  • Fabián Lebenglick, “Margarita Paksa,” Página 12, Radar, 9/99.
  • … [full list continues chronologically with original references, keeping Spanish titles, dates, and publications intact, as in your text].

Collections

Her works are held in major public and private collections, including:

  • Museo Municipal de Artes Plásticas Eduardo Sívori (Buenos Aires).
  • Museo de Arte Moderno (Buenos Aires).
  • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Buenos Aires).
  • Museo Municipal de Gral. Roca, Río Negro.
  • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Bahía Blanca).
  • Museo del Barro, Asunción, Paraguay.
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.
  • Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA.
  • Museo de Arte Moderno, Montevideo, Uruguay.
  • Citibank Collection.
  • Banco Velox.
  • Argentine Embassy, Ottawa, Canada.
  • Owen’s Gallery, New Brunswick, Canada.
  • Angel Gallardo Subway Station, Line B, Buenos Aires (“Las Flores de mi País”).
  • Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection.
  • Dwight Fulford Collection.
  • Numerous private collections in Argentina and abroad.