Guadalupe Miles (b. Buenos Aires, 1971) currently lives and works in Bárcena, Jujuy, Argentina.
She studied Social Communication and Arts at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and sculpture at the Massana School of Art and Design in Barcelona. Miles participated in the Antorchas Foundation’s Art Clinics Program, coordinated by Tulio de Sagastizábal and Pablo Siquier, and took part in the “Cultural Management and Fundraising for Artist-Cultural Managers” workshop by Trama. She also took part in the group led by Thomas Demand at Latin American Museum of Buenos Aires (MALBA) and participated in the Taller de Fotografia Estética.
Since 1998, she has been engaged in various artistic, cultural, and educational projects with the Iowaja, Nivakle, and Wichi communities in the Chaco region of Salta, Argentina. These include book publications, workshops, and other activities at the Tewok Cultural Center, founded by Tiluk Mendoza, contributing to national and international visibility and strengthening of these peoples survival conditions. She initiated and developed the multidisciplinary project “La Criatura Intermedia” in collaboration with artist Claudia Fontes in Salta (2016).
For over a decade, she has been running the platform “Artes Visuales del Jaguar” in Bárcena, offering educational and transcultural activities while proposing a new understanding of artist residencies. Notable participants include Isabel Ruarte, Ticio Escobar, Andrea Ostera, Mónica Millán, Olaf Holzapfel, and Inka Gresell, among other prominent figures in the contemporary national and international visual arts scene.
Miles served as jury for the National Arts Fund (2021), Argentina’s National Photography Salon (2016), and the Jujuy Provincial Photography Salon (2018). She participated as both a panelist and artist at the 6th Bienal Global Sur, Casa de la Independencia, Tucumán (2016), and took part in the international production and education project “Photography and Light” in Quito, Ecuador (2016).
Her work has earned several awards and scholarships, including grants from the National Arts Fund (2007, 2003), the Young Art Prize at arteBA (2003), the Antorchas Foundation (2004), and an Honourable Mention at the National Visual Arts Salon of Argentina’s Ministry of Culture (2003). Her work has been exhibited both individually and collectively, at prestigious venues such as the Cairo Biennale (2024), Kunsthalle Mannheim (2023), Centro Cultural Kirchner (2022-2023), Documenta Fifteen (2022), Museo en los Cerros (2020-2021), Fundación Proa (2020), Museo Castagnino Macro (2019, 2009), Getty Museum (2017), Proyecto FLUZ Quito (2017), Curitiba International Biennial (2019), Mercosur Biennial (2011), International Cervantino Festival (2011), and the Havana Biennial (2003), among others.
Her works are part of public collections, including the National Museum of Fine Arts, the National Arts Fund, the Castagnino-Macro Museum, Museo en los Cerros, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Salta, and the F. Rawson Provincial Museum of Fine Arts in San Juan, as well as private collections. They are also preserved in the key archives of the Wichi, Iowaja, and Nivakle communities known as Santa Victoria II and Kates (La Estrella), near the Pilcomayo River in the Rivadavia department of the Chaco region in Salta. These were restored as a curatorial gesture by the Secretary of Cultural Heritage in 2022, accompanying the return of copies to the communities through an initiative called Affective Restitutions.

Prizes and Grants
2024
Re Enchant the House. 20 Years, MAC, Salta.
The Arrow in the Air. National Terry Museum, Tilcara, Jujuy.
Mandino. Escoda Collection. MAC, Salta, and Jallpha Kalchaki Museum, San Carlos.
2023/24
Something Else, at the Citadel. Cairo Art Biennial, Egypt.
2023
1.5 Degrees. Interdependencies between Life, the Cosmos, and Technology, Mannheim, Germany.
2022/23
“Solar Wind”, Fortaleza, Brazil, Solar Photofestival.
2007
Group Project Grant from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Argentina.
2003
National Grant for Artistic Creation from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes. Argentina.
2003/2004
Intensive Workshop Grant for Young Artists from Salta from the Fundación Antorchas. Argentina.
2003
Honorable Mention at the Salón Banco Ciudad, Museo de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2003
Premio Orígenes al Arte Joven, ArteBA. Argentina.
2003
First Prize at the 91 Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales de la Secretaría de Cultura de la Nación, Argentina.
2001
Stimulus Award, Fundación Antorchas. Argentina.
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2020/2021
“Tiluk”, MEC, Museo en los Cerros, Huichaira. Jujuy.
2017/2019
“Tiluk y la obra de Guadalupe Miles”, Bienal Internacional de Curitiba, Brazil. MAC, Museo de Arte Contemporaìneo, Salta, Argentina. Curators: Ticio Escobar/ Tulio de Sagastizabal.
2017
“Verano de las Artes”, Secretaría de Cultura de Quito, Parque Itchimbia, Quito, Ecuador.
2011
RÍO, Galería Sicart, Barcelona, España.
2009
CHACO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Macro, Rosario, Argentina.
2004
CHACO, Fotogalería del Teatro Gral. San Martín. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2001
KHATES, La Estrella, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes de Salta. Argentina.
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2021
“Simbiologías. Prácticas artísticas en un planeta en emergencia”. CCK. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2020
“Crear Mundos”, Fundación PROA. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2019
“Dos Museos y un Río” Colección Castagnino Macro, Bienal Sur. Rosario. Argentina. Curator: Ticio Escobar.
2017
Photography in Argentina / Contradiction and Continuity, Getty Museum. USA; 2016 Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
La mirada que separa de los Brazos”, Bienal Sur. Buenos Aires, Argentina, Curator: Florencia Batitti.
“Ciudades Visibles”, Proyecto FLUZ Quito at the Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Quito, Ecuador.
2015
“Aquí nos vemos: Fotografía en América Latina 2000-2015”, CCK. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2013
ParaTy em Foco, Festival de Fotografía, Brasil.
2012
Contar Historias, Microrrelatos en las colecciones nacionales de arte. Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires. Argentina.
2011
“Territorios Independientes”, Festival Internacional Cervantino, Guanajuato, Mexico.
“MACRO Incorporaciones 2010: La Crisis como prospecto”; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario, Argentina.
2009
“Argentinas”, Centro Cultural Borges. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2008
“Premio 50 Aniversario Fondo Nacional de las Artes”, Casa Victoria Ocampo. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
“Photoimagen 2008” Museo de Arte Moderno, Dominican Republic.
“Paisajes”, Asunción del Paraguay; MAC Salta y CCEBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2007
“Photoquais”, Bienal de Fotografía, Paris, France. Curator: Alejandro Castellote.
“Portraits of Salta”, Embajada Argentina, London, England.
“Portraits of Salta”, Festival de Salsbury, Salsbury, England.
2006
“Pertenencia”, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Casa Victoria Ocampo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
“Salón Chandon”, Salta, Argentina.
2005
“Salón Osde”, Fotografía, Buenos Aires, Argentina. – “15 x 15”, Galería Praxis, Miami, New York and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Invited by Rodrigo Alonso.
“20 años Fotografía”, Fotogalería Teatro Gral. San Martín. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2004
“Perfil de Artista, 15+3+6”, Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires, Argentina.
“Rutas y Caminos”, MAMBA, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
“Mujeres Argentinas”, C. C. Victoria Ocampo, Mar del Plata, Palais de Glace. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
“Fotógrafos/4”. Fundación Federico Klemm, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2001
“Khates, La Estrella”, Muestra Fotografía Contemporánea, Casa de las Américas, La Habana, Cuba.