Nury González

Nury González Andreu (Santiago, Chile, 1960) is a visual artist whose practice moves across printmaking, textile practices, installation, and archival research. She studied at the Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo and later earned a BA in Visual Arts with a specialization in printmaking from the University of Chile. Since the 1980s she has developed an artistic trajectory that investigates the relationships between memory, history, and identity through the use of documents, photographs, objects, and materials associated with domestic practices. Her work explores autobiographical narratives, displacement, exile, and historical instability, connecting personal histories with broader political and cultural processes. Through techniques such as weaving, embroidery, and printmaking, González revalues practices traditionally associated with women’s work and recontextualizes them within contemporary art. Her projects often establish dialogues between the private sphere and the public realm, linking intimate memory with collective history. Since 1983 she has presented numerous solo and group exhibitions in Chile and internationally, participating in major biennials including Havana, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, La Paz, Panama, Valencia, Pontevedra, and Shanghai. Notable exhibitions include De pies y manos, Historia de Cenizas, Ficción de un origen, Sueño de una Noche de Verano, and the retrospective Hebra Perdida at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago (2024–2025). Alongside her artistic practice, González has built an extensive academic career at the University of Chile, where she is a Full Professor and coordinator of the Master’s Program in Visual Arts. From 2008 to 2023 she served as director of the Museo de Arte Popular Americano Tomás Lago (MAPA). Her work has been recognized with the Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation residency, the Altazor Prize, the Municipal Prize for Visual Arts of Santiago, and the Amanda Labarca Medal from the University of Chile.