Marco Maggi

Marco Maggi (born 1957 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a New York and Uruguay based artist whose work incorporates common materials such as office paper, aluminum foil, graphite and apples to create micro drawings, sculptures and macro installations

Maggi will represent Uruguay at the upcoming 2015 Venice Biennale.

Maggi's work is included in the public collections of Museum of Modern Art (New York), Museum of Fine Arts Houston (Houston, TX), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York).Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco (CA), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington DC), Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (Indianapolis, IN), Chicago Art Institute (Chicago, IL), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA), Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, CA), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA), Cisneros Collection ( NYC ), Daros Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland).

Mercosur Biennial ( Porto Alegre, Brazil 2001), São Paulo Biennial ( São Paulo, Brazil 2002), Havanna Biennial ( Havanna, Cuba 2003), Construcciones & Demoliciones ( Centro Cultural de España Montevideo, Uruguay 2003), Gwangju Biennial ( Gwangju, Korea 2004), Pontevedra Biennial ( Pontevedra, Spain 2006), Poetics of the Handmade ( Los Angeles MoCA, CA 2006), New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930 - 2006 ( MoMA, NY 2008), Bienal de Guatemala ( Guatemala, 2010), Optimismo Radical ( NC Arte Bogotá, Colombia 2011), Bienal de Cuenca ( Cuenca, Ecuador 2012), Lentissimo ( Vassar College, NY 2012), Drawings in Portuguese ( Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, 2012), Figari Prize, Career Award ( Museo Figari Montevideo, Uruguay 2012).

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