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Ingrid Wildi Merino
Chilean-born Swiss video artist (born 1963) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ingrid Paula del Carmen Wildi-Merino (born 1963) is a Chilean-born Swiss video artist, curator, and educator. She has been a lecturer at the Geneva University of Art and Design, from 2005 to 2016.[1] She has been active in Geneva, Biel, and Madrid; and she currently lives in Santiago.[1][2]
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Early life and education
Ingrid Wildi Merino was born in Santiago, Chile on September 19, 1963,[1] as the daughter of a Swiss father and a Chilean mother.[3][4] In 1981, she moved to Switzerland with her father, and they settled in Niederlenz in Canton Aargau.[1][4]
From 1994 to 1997, Wildi Merino studied at Zurich University of the Arts, where she was a student of Bernd Höppner.[1] She continued her studies between 1998 and 2000, and she completed a postgraduate diploma at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Genève (later known as the Geneva University of Art and Design), where she was a student of the artists Sylvie Defraoi, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, and Ursula Biemann.[1]
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Career
She previously taught at the University of Alcalá from 2010 to ?; and the Geneva University of Art and Design from 2005 to 2016.[1][4]
Her artwork can be found in museum collections including the Aargauer Kunsthaus, Kunsthaus Zurich, and Fonds municipal d'art contemporain de la Ville de Genève (FMAC).[4]
Exhibitions
Wildi Merino's first solo exhibition was in 2004 at the Aargauer Kunsthaus, and at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève.[4] In 2005, Wildi Merino was included in the Swiss Artists Pavilion for the 51st Venice Biennale.[1] In 2009, she was part of the 7th Mercosul Biennial, held in Porto Alegre, Brazil.[1]
Awards
In 2004, Wildi Merino was awarded the Manor Cultural Prize for the Canton of Aargau.[5] In 2009, she was awarded the Prix Méret-Oppenheim.[4]
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