Biography
Claudia Aravena Abughosh, visual artist. She was born in Santiago, Chile, on October 21, 1968.
Between 1987 and 1992 she studied Graphic Design at ARCIS University, Santiago, Chile; and in 2001 she graduated as an Audiovisual Communicator at the Arcos Institute, Santiago, Chile. During 2012 she is a candidate for a Master's Degree in Cultural Studies at the University, ARCIS, Santiago, Chile.
She has worked as an undergraduate academic for the Video workshop at the School of Art and Visual Culture at the University, ARCIS, Santiago, Chile and in the Film and Visual Arts Seminar at the Film School of the same University. She has also been an undergraduate Academic for the Video and Multimedia Technology Workshop at the School of Visual Arts of the Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile.
In 1994, she was Curator of the Chilean submission for the short film exhibition Mostra Courtas Cinema, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and of the XIV Festival Franco-Chilean de Video Arte, Santiago. In 1995 she was in charge of the production of the 2nd Video Biennial of Santiago, Chile. In 1999, she was also curator of Crossing the Border, an exhibition of videos by artists from Argentina, Brazil and Chile, at the Center of Contemporary Arts Berlin, in Podewil, Germany. In 2001, she was a member of the jury for the V Biennial of Video and New Media in Santiago, Chile. In 2004, he was a member of the jury for the Golden Cube Award at the XXI Kasseler Dokumentarfilm & Videofest, Germany.
Between 1997 and 2007 he lived in Berlin, and developed his work both in Germany and Chile.
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