Museo Moderno
Sinclair Marcela
Untitled, 2014 / Persiana, tanza, naranjas / 150 x 150 x 12 cm

(Buenos Aires) is an artist and a teacher. She frequently explores themes of displacement and geometry through practices that include drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, and site-specific interventions. She received a degree from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, in 2004, and study under the postwar master of abstraction Tulio de Sagastizábal. She has created pieces for the Argentine Ministry of Culture, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Centro Cultural General San Martín, Parque de la Memoria, arteBA Fundación, and Fundación PROA. Sinclair has completed residencies at El Basilisco in Buenos Aires, Lugar a Dudas in Cali, Colombia (2009), Fountainhead (Miami, 2019) and FAARA, Fundación Ama Amoedo in José Ignacio, Uruguay (2021). She received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts of Argentina (2012), the Cultural Equality prize awarded by the Argentine Secretary of Culture (2013), the first prize for sculpture from the National Endowment for the Arts (2017) and the 8M acquisition prize (2022). Sinclair’s work has been exhibited in private and public collections throughout Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Spain, the United States, Italy, and Germany, and her recent exhibitions include ‘Vía Pública’, MALBA, Buenos Aires (2022); ‘Communal house’, Museo Fernandez Blanco, BIENALSUR, Buenos Aires (2021); ‘Disruptions’, Collins Park, Art Basel Miami, Miami Beach (2019); ‘Jewell, escape’, Mite, Buenos Aires (2018); ‘Home sweet home. Contemporary artistic habits’, MUNTREF Museo de Artes Visuales, Buenos Aires (2018); ‘Is she a lovely thing’, Museo Cerralbo, Madrid (2017); ‘The future has arrived (a while ago)’, Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires (2016).