Magdalena Jitrik
Argentina
Is an artist who studied Fine Arts in the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas of the UNAM, Mexico City. Her first show was in 1990 in the Galería del Rojas (Universidad de Buenos Aires); during the following two years, she worked there curating and assembling exhibitions. In 1991, she is accepted in the Programa de la Fundación Antorchas, directed by Guillermo Kuitca. Between 1998 y 200 she travels to France, Spain and the USA. In France, she participated in the exhibition L’abstraction et ses territoires, curated by Philippe Cyroulnik in the Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain de Montbèliard. In 200 she did another residency and show in France, in the Espace de l’art concret de Mouans-Sartoux, curated by Odile Biec and titled “Filles indignes de l’Art Concret”. In 2002, she founded the Taller Popular de Serigrafía with Mariela Scafati and Diego Posadas.
Between 2005 and 2008 she has participated in several collective shows, such as: Palabras Perdidas en el Recoleta, curated by Ana Batistozzi; Ansia y Devoción, curated by Rodrigo Alonso in the Fundación Proa and Dechirures de l’histoire, a project by Philippe Cyroulnik in Montbeliard.