Guillermina Buzio

Guillermina is a Toronto-based artist, and holds a BFA from the National University of Fine Arts P. Pueyrredón (Argentina), a Bachelor of Media Arts from the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, and an MFA from the OCAD University. As a visual artist she has worked in a diverse range of media, including video installation and performance. Her work focuses on human rights and identity and has been shown nationally and internationally at Toronto’s A Space and Xspace Galleries and at the Images Festival; Centro Cultural Recoleta and Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires and Bogotá; among others. During the past few years, Guillermina has been programming for different festivals and venues including: The Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, BIM (Bienal de Arte en Movimiento), Inside Out LGTB Festival, New Toronto Works, The Experimental Media Congress, and the Planet in Focus Environmental Film and Video Festival in Toronto, among others. Guillermina coordinated the 3DFlic project at York University. She curated Mobile Perspectives a symposium, exhibition and workshops organized by OCAD-U (Ontario College Arts & Design University) and Fundacion Telefonica (Argentina). She teaches Intro to Video Editing at Continuing Studies at OCAD-U.

85%. Is a video and sound installation. This piece is a metaphor for our daily lives, running to places and passing through seasons, never arriving. 85% works with concepts of sound, movement and repetition, bringing us from northern Argentina to Toronto.
Zaida
. Is taking care of her younger siblings in the Peruvian jungle. The little toys are things that they have never had.
Durmientes. Sleep is a private activity. Each one of these persons is in their own, mysterious world: a place we cannot go but a place we have all been to.
Fugas. Toronto Animated Image Society have commissioned eight local artists to create new photo-based animations exploring the subject of “Latin Dimensions”.

Exhibition at Toronto Art Hotel-The Gladstone - Exhibition at National Film Board, Médiathéque, Toronto, Canada, and at the IV Photo Books Author’s Fair at Espacio Ecléctico. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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