Voluspa Jarpa

Voluspa Jarpa (b.1971, Rancagua, Chile) lives and works in Santiago de Chile. Her work is based upon a meticulous analysis of political, historical, and social documents, which she uses as a starting point to reflect upon notions of memory, trauma, violence, displacement, and resistance. One of the most prominent figures working in Chile today, Jarpa belongs to the first generation that was able to study following Pinochet’s military dictatorship and played a pivotal role in the country’s artistic revival in the 1990s.
She was the winner of the inaugural edition of the Julius Baer Art Prize for Latin American Female Artists in 2021. She has participated in many international exhibitions including: Altered Views, Chilean Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, Italy (2019); BIENALSUR, Riyadh and Buenos Aires (2019); Proregress, 12th Shanghai Biennial (2018); 31st Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2014); and 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011).