Tania Bruguera worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Tania Bruguera as Cuban installation and performance artist (born 1968).
Tania Bruguera was born at Havana in 1968. Her recorded nationality is Cuba. She trained at School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro.
Contemporary practice spans painting, photography, installation and digital media, with biennials and galleries setting reputations.
She worked as artist, painter and theatre director.
An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Cuba shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Tania Bruguera is still working, and the shape of the body of work is not yet settled.
