Nicolás Sánchez

Born in 1981 in Santiago, Chile
Lives and works in London, UK

18th century Romanticism rises as a response to the monsters of rationalism whose liberation utopias exist until today, only as unaccomplished promises. Under a sombre future I bear an audiovisual investigation that mixes landscape intervention and performance, updating that romantic loss feeling with a breeze of despair, melancholy, anger, hope.

Exhibitions
2012 - New video politics realities - itinerancy Europe and South America
2012 - BVAM X - 10° Video & Media Arts Biennial, MNBA, Fine Arts National Museum, Santiago, Chile
2011 - Short Voyage – 98WEEKS Project Space, Beirut, Libano
2011 - Microutopías - (Bipersonal), Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile
2010 - SCL2110 – MAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
2010 - Ikas Art – BEC, Bilbao, Spain
2010 - Théâvida Latin American Video Festival, Espace Kawenga, Montpellier, France
2009 - BVAM 9° Video & Media Arts Biennial - MAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
2008 - BAC Festival 2008 - La Santa, Barcelona, Spain
2008 - Parasite Residence - MeetFactory Gallery, Praga, Czech Republic
2008 - Start Point 2008 – Klatovy / Klenova Gallery, Praga, Czech Republic
2006 - Periférica International Art Fair, Borges Cultural Centre, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006 - DEFORMES 1° Performance Biennial, MAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
2006 - Spam_City – MAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
2006 - Paximobile Project - Matucana 100 Cultural Centre, Santiago, Chile
2005 - Surface - (solo show), Galería Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile
2005 - Empy Spaces - (solo show), Galería BECH, Santiago, Chile

Awards - scholarships - workshops
2011 - Jun - Expert Committee Member of the Chilean National Council for the Arts
2009 - September - Juan Downey Award for video creation
2008 - April - Workshop with Isidoro Valcárcel Medina
2008 - April - Workshop with Christian Boltanski
2007 - October - Fondart Scholarship (Chilean Government award for international postgraduate studies)
2007 - October - Workshop “Atacama Lab 2007” with artists and academics of Austin - Texas University
2006 - November - Workshop with Tomás Saraceno