Mónica Millán

She studied at the Antonio Ruiz de Montoya Teacher Training Institute for Drawing and Painting in Posadas. She has received grants from the Fundación Antorchas, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Rockefeller Foundation, Fundación
Telefónica, and the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, and in the year 2000, she received the Trama scholarship. Since 2002 she has been working with a community of weavers in Paraguay, in the town of Yataity del Guairá, the cradle of Ao po’i textiles, advised by Ticio Escobar.
Her most outstanding exhibitions include: Paisaje Peregrino (Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2021); Simbiología. Prácticas artísticas en un planeta en emergencia (Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires, 2021); 11a Bienal del Mercosur O Triângulo Atlântico (Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, 2018); Bienal del Sur, Panamá, 2013; XI Bienal de la Habana, 2012; Bienal Vento Sul, Curitiba, 2011; Tales of resistance and change (Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, 2010); Situación de estudio. El vértigo de lo lento (Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador, 2004; Rockefeller Foundation and the Museo del Barro, Yataity, Paraguay, 2002). In 2023 she received the Premio Nacional a la Trayectoria Artística (National Award for Artistic Achievement) granted by the Palacio Nacional de las Artes.
Her works form part of the following collections: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Salta, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Emilio Pettoruti in La
Plata, Museo Castagnino + macro in Rosario, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Juan Yapari in Misiones.
She lives and works between Misiones and Buenos Aires.

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