Artist Teresa Burga – a key figure in Latin American Conceptualism – has died, according to local press reports.
Born in 1935 in Iquitos, Burga first studied at the School of Art Catholic University of Peru in Lima, and later graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago. She became a member of Arte Nuevo, a pioneering group that made a deep impact on the avant-garde in Peru during the late 1960s.
Burga’s early work focused on ideas of femininity, media and labour – painted portraits of domesticity inflected with the signs of pop culture and advertising. Her practice later incorporated text-based instructions and diagrams via projections and sculptures.
