Jorge Macchi
Visual artist. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1963. Studied art at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires. Lives and works in Buenos Aires.
In 2001 he was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
He had three major retrospectives of his work: Perspectiva at MALBA Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires, in 2016, curated by Agustin Perez Rubio, Music Stand Still at S.M.A.K the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium in 2011 curated by Thibaut Verhoeven and The anatomy of melancholy at Santander Cultural, 2007, Blanton Museum, 2007 and CGAC, Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, 2008, curated by Gabriel Pérez Barreiro.
He represented Argentina at the Venice Biennial in 2005 with the work La Ascensión, in collaboration with Edgardo Rudnitzky, Palazzo Palagraziussi (Antico Oratorio San Filippo Neri).
Other solo shows: La Cathédrale engloutie, Musée Cantonal de Beaux Arts, Lausanne, (2020), Lampo, NC Arte, Bogotá (2015); Prestidigitador at MUAC, México DF (2014); Container at MAMBA, Buenos Aires (2013); Container at Kunstmuseum Luzern, (2013); Last minute, in collaboration with Edgardo Rudnitzky, Pinacoteca del Estado de San Pablo (2009).
He took part in the Biennials of Liverpool 2012, Sydney 2012, Lyon 2011, Estambul 2011, Auckland 2010, New Orleans 2008, Yokohama 2008, Porto Alegre 2007, San Pablo 2006, Venezia 2005, Praga 2005, San Pablo 2004, Estambul 2003, Porto Alegre 2003, Fortaleza 2002 y La Habana 2000.
Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.