Luz Donoso Puelma (born 1921 in Santiago,

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, died January 18, 2008), also known as Luz Donoso, was a Chilean graphic artist, muralist, political activist, and teacher. Beginning in the mid 1960s, Donoso was one of the most prominent participants in the muralist movement that supported

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’s presidential campaign. In the first months of the dictatorship she was dismissed from her teaching position at the University of Chile, like many of her colleagues, and shortly after co-founded an artist run work space and forum, Taller de Artes Visuales (TAV).

Selected exhibitions

* 1976 – Instituto Chileno Frances, Santiago * 1977 – Cuatro Grabadores Chilenos, Galleria Cromo, Santiago *1978 – Participated in the collective Exposition "Recreando a Goya" at the Goethe institute, Santiago Chile. *1983 – Chilenas en Berlin, Berlin * 1987 – Mujer, Arte y Perferia, floating Curatorial Gallery, Women in Focus, Vancouver * 2011 - Una Accion hecha por otro es una obra de la Luz Donoso, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Las Condes, Santiago *2012 – Her work was featured in a Collective exposition organized by The Red Conceptualismos de Sur "Perder la forma humana. Una imagen sismica de los anos ochenta en America Latina" at the

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in Madrid. *2015 – Her work was featured in a collective exposition "Ausencia encarnada, Efimeralidad y collectividad en el art chileno en los anos setenta" curated by Liz Munsell at the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile. *2016 – Her work was featured in a collective exposition "Poner el cuerpo. Llamamientos de arte y politica en los anos ochenta en America Latina" curated by Javier Manzi y Paulina Varas at the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile. *2017 – Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985

References

External links

IMAGEN DE LA (DES) APARICIÓN, CIRCULACIÓN Y COLECTIVIDAD EN LA OBRA DE LUZ DONOSO Y HERNÁN PARADA

Conversación en torno al libro “Luz Donoso. El arte y la acción en el presente”
at the

Museum of Memory and Human Rights The Museum of Memory and Human Rights (in Spanish: ''Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos'') is a museum in Santiago, Chile, which commemorates the victims of human rights violations during the military dictatorship led by Augusto Pinochet ...

"Mujeres que se visualizan" :(En)gendering archives and regimes of media and visuality in post-1968

Archivo de archivos: la memoria de Luz Donoso
at El Desconcierto
Hammer Museum "Radical Women"" Ausencia encarnada. Efimeralidad y Colectividad en el arte chileno en los anos setenta" Museo de la Solidaridad
(in Spanish) {{DEFAULTSORT:Donoso, Luz 1921 births 2008 deaths 20th-century Chilean women artists Artists from Santiago University of Chile alumni Academic staff of the University of Chile