Akademiestraße 2-4, 80799 München, Germany
In 1957, Luis received a scholarship from the German Federal Government, which enabled him to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
285 Madison Avenue, Madison, NJ 07940, United States
From 1968 to 1969, Luis served as an instructor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison.
223 Store Hill Road, Old Westbury, NY 11568, United States
In 1969, he was appointed a professor of art at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury, a position he still holds.
Akademiestraße 2-4, 80799 München, Germany
In 1957, Luis received a scholarship from the German Federal Government, which enabled him to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
285 Madison Avenue, Madison, NJ 07940, United States
From 1968 to 1969, Luis served as an instructor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison.
223 Store Hill Road, Old Westbury, NY 11568, United States
In 1969, he was appointed a professor of art at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury, a position he still holds.
(In this book, one of Latin America's foremost conceptuali...)
In this book, one of Latin America's foremost conceptualist artists, Luis Camnitzer, offers a firsthand account of conceptualism in Latin American art.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/029271629X/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(Camnitzer’s Eco Book consists of 104 pages, that seem hie...)
Camnitzer’s Eco Book consists of 104 pages, that seem hieroglyphic at first, filled with indecipherable arcane structures and signs, rendering the common mechanisms of interpretation absurd. The illegible pages are interleaved simultaneous signifiers.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3944669088/?tag=2022091-20
2013
Luis Camnitzer was born on November 6, 1937 in Lubeck, Germany, and grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay. He is a son of Siegbert Camnitzer, a merchant, and Florence (Hamm) Camnitzer.
Despite the fact, that Luis spent much of his time, working in the United States, he is an Uruguayan citizen.
During the period from 1953 till 1962, Luis studied sculpture and architecture at the University of Montevideo's School of Fine Arts. In 1957, he received a scholarship from the German Federal Government, which enabled him to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. There, at the Academy, Heinrich Kirchner was among Camnitzer's mentors.
In 1961, Camnitzer started his career as an instructor at the University of Montevideo's School of Fine Arts in Montevideo, Uruguay, a post he held till 1964, when he settled down in New York City. The same year, in 1964, together with fellow artists, such as Argentine Liliana Porter and Venezuelan José Guillermo Castillo, Luis founded the New York Graphic Workshop. For six years until the end of the workshop in 1970, they examined the conceptual meaning behind printmaking and sought to test and expand the definition of the medium.
During the late 1960's and early 1970's, Luis worked out a body of work, that explored language as a primary medium, printing text on paper or walls. The brightest examples of such works are Camnitzer's Dictionary etchings and room-size installation Living Room, both were made in 1969.
Also, since 1968 to 1969, Luis served as an instructor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison. In 1969, he was appointed a professor of art at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury, a position he still holds.
During the 1970s, Camnitzer created a key body of work, that blended both language and humor, producing a series of object-boxes, that placed ordinary items within wood-framed glass boxes with text, printed on brass plaques. In many ways, these boxes anticipate one of Camnitzer’s most important works, the Uruguayan Torture Series (1983–1984). This photo-etching series epitomizes Camnitzer’s ability to question the social and political roles of an individual in society, while also examining a dimension of human psychology by pairing images and text to create new meaning.
During his lifetime, the artist's works were shown at important museums, galleries and institutions, including one-person exhibitions at Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri (2011), El Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos in Santiago, Chile (2013) and others. Also, in 1988, the artist represented Uruguay at the Biennial of Venice.
Currently, Luis lives and works in New York City.
Luis Camnitzer gained prominence not only as an artist, but also as a critic, educator and art theorist. He received many awards, including Annual Printmaking Award (1958), Guggenheim Fellowship (1961, 1982) and others.
His works are kept in the permanent collections of countless museums, galleries and institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and others.
(Camnitzer’s Eco Book consists of 104 pages, that seem hie...)
2013(In this book, one of Latin America's foremost conceptuali...)
2007Luis is a member of the College Art Association of America.
Camnitzer's first wife was Liliana Porter, an artist. The couple divorced in 1979. Some time later, on September 11, 1979, Luis married his second wife, Selby Hickey.
Also, Luis has two children — Miguel and Gabriel.
