Guadalupe Miles

Guadalupe Miles (b. Buenos Aires, 1971) currently lives and works in Bárcena, Jujuy, Argentina.
She studied Social Communication and Arts at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and sculpture at the Massana School of Art and Design in Barcelona. Miles participated in the Antorchas Foundation’s Art Clinics Program, coordinated by Tulio de Sagastizábal and Pablo Siquier, and took part in the "Cultural Management and Fundraising for Artist-Cultural Managers" workshop by Trama. She also took part in the group led by Thomas Demand at Latin American Museum of Buenos Aires (MALBA) and participated in the Taller de Fotografia Estética.
Since 1998, she has been engaged in various artistic, cultural, and educational projects with the Iowaja, Nivakle, and Wichi communities in the Chaco region of Salta, Argentina. These include book publications, workshops, and other activities at the Tewok Cultural Center, founded by Tiluk Mendoza, contributing to national and international visibility and strengthening of these peoples survival conditions. She initiated and developed the multidisciplinary project “La Criatura Intermedia” in collaboration with artist Claudia Fontes in Salta (2016).
For over a decade, she has been running the platform "Artes Visuales del Jaguar" in Bárcena, offering educational and transcultural activities while proposing a new understanding of artist residencies. Notable participants include Isabel Ruarte, Ticio Escobar, Andrea Ostera, Mónica Millán, Olaf Holzapfel, and Inka Gresell, among other prominent figures in the contemporary national and international visual arts scene.
Miles served as jury for the National Arts Fund (2021), Argentina's National Photography Salon (2016), and the Jujuy Provincial Photography Salon (2018). She participated as both a panelist and artist at the 6th Bienal Global Sur, Casa de la Independencia, Tucumán (2016), and took part in the international production and education project "Photography and Light" in Quito, Ecuador (2016).
Her work has earned several awards and scholarships, including grants from the National Arts Fund (2007, 2003), the Young Art Prize at arteBA (2003), the Antorchas Foundation (2004), and an Honourable Mention at the National Visual Arts Salon of Argentina’s Ministry of Culture (2003). Her work has been exhibited both individually and collectively, at prestigious venues such as the Cairo Biennale (2024), Kunsthalle Mannheim (2023), Centro Cultural Kirchner (2022-2023), Documenta Fifteen (2022), Museo en los Cerros (2020-2021), Fundación Proa (2020), Museo Castagnino Macro (2019, 2009), Getty Museum (2017), Proyecto FLUZ Quito (2017), Curitiba International Biennial (2019), Mercosur Biennial (2011), International Cervantino Festival (2011), and the Havana Biennial (2003), among others.
Her works are part of public collections, including the National Museum of Fine Arts, the National Arts Fund, the Castagnino-Macro Museum, Museo en los Cerros, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Salta, and the F. Rawson Provincial Museum of Fine Arts in San Juan, as well as private collections. They are also preserved in the key archives of the Wichi, Iowaja, and Nivakle communities known as Santa Victoria II and Kates (La Estrella), near the Pilcomayo River in the Rivadavia department of the Chaco region in Salta. These were restored as a curatorial gesture by the Secretary of Cultural Heritage in 2022, accompanying the return of copies to the communities through an initiative called Affective Restitutions.