Biography

Guadalupe Miles, 1971, Argentina.

Currently lives in Bárcena, Jujuy. Argentina.

She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally since 1998.

She is currently in the Comunicación Social y Artes degree program at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). She was selected to participate in the Clínicas de obra (intensive workshop program) organized by Fundación Antorchas and held in Northwest Argentina, coordinated by Tulio de Sagastizabal and Pablo Siquier. She attended the “Gestión Cultural y Fundraising para Artistas Gestores Culturales” workshop, held by Trama; she was selected to participate in a workshop for visual artists led by Thomas Demand and held at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires – Malba. She participated in the Talleres de Estética Fotográfica (TEF) in Buenos Aires and undertook studies in Sculpture at the Escuela Massana, Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Diseño in Barcelona, Spain.

She was a member of the Jury for the Fondo Nacional de las Artes (2021), for the Salón Nacional de Fotografía Argentina in 2016 and for the Salón de Fotografía de la provincia de Jujuy (2018). She was a Special Guest and Panelist for the 6to Encuentro de la Bienal Global Sur, held at the Casa de la Independencia in Tucumán (2016). She was invited to form part of the FLUZ Quito, Fotografía y Luz international project for art production and education in Ecuador (2016).

She created “Artes Visuales del Jaguar”, an international platform for intercultural and educational project development in the visual arts.

She carries out the communication and development of cultural and educational projects that contribute to strengthening the Iowaja and Wichii communities located in the area of Chaco in the province of Salta, Argentina, with dissemination on a national and international level. Jointly with artist Claudia Fontes, she promotes and develops the interdisciplinary project “La Criatura Intermedia” in Salta (Chaco).

Her work generates and furthers dialog with different cultural actors in communities in the Chaco area in Salta. Her exploration is based on the common need to open new spaces for communication and creation that will propitiate a resurgence of collective knowledge and encourage exchange involving meaningful transcultural experiences.

Her work can be found in the permanent public collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero, Colección ArteBA, Colección Casa del Bicentenario, Museo Castagnino-Macro (Rosario), MEC – Museo en los Cerros (Jujuy), MAC- Museo de Arte Contemporaìneo (Salta) and Colección Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Franklin Rawson (San Juan), in addition to private collections.

She is currently developing a collaborative project jointly with German artist Olaf Holzapfel in Jujuy, Argentina.