Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (born 1961,
Madrid, Spain) is an American
conceptual artist known for multidisciplinary, socially oriented sculpture, video and
installations and urban
community-based projects of the 1990s. His work often explores a dialectical relationships involving
minimalist aesthetics, the
utopian ambitions of
modernism and science, and the resulting—often negative—social, geopolitical and ecological consequences of such ideologies. ''
New York Times'' critic
Holland Cotter wrote that Manglano-Ovalle was adept in "distilling complex ideas into inviting visual metaphors," while
Jody Zellen described his work as "infused with a formal elegance and sociopolitical content." Manglano-Ovalle has been featured in solo exhibitions at the
Art Institute of Chicago,
MASS MoCA,
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo and
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA), and participated in
Documenta 12, the
Venice Biennale,
Whitney Biennial, and
Bienal de São Paulo. He has been recognized with
MacArthur Foundation,
Guggenheim, and
National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and his work belongs to the collections of forty major institutions. He has been a professor at
Northwestern University since 2012 and lives and works in
Chicago.
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