Rimer Cardillo lives and works in New York City and the Hudson River Valley. Cardillo has developed a large and powerful body of work that includes prints, photos, sculptures and installations. In 1997 he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and in 1998 the Bronx Museum of the Arts exhibited a ten-year survey of his work. He was selected to represent Uruguay at the 2001 Venice Biennial with a large installation. The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz organized the first comprehensive survey of Cardillo's career.
Cardillo creates major site-specific pieces that he refers to as "cupi" (from the native Guarani word for anthill), as well as photo and film based documentary work related to his collaborations with scholars and practitioners in the fields of entomology and archaeology. He also is noted for his journalistic explorations of the Amazonian interior, rural estancias of northern Uruguay and southern Paraguay, and other remote regions of the South American continent. |
