Mariana Matthews

• Name — Mariana Matthews • Born — 1946 • Birthplace — Santiago, Chile • Occupation — Photographer, curator • Notable Works — * Adoremos • Ojo de Agua • Awards — Altazor Award (2000, 2003) • Education — American University

Mariana Matthews graduated with a Bachelor of Arts at American University, and earned a postgraduate degree in Photography at Ohio University. She is considered one of the forerunners of so-called patrimonial photography, while the use of mixed techniques predominates in her work, mainly based on black and white photography and the inclusion of color as appropriate within such images.

Matthews has participated in several solo and group exhibitions during her career, including the exhibitions Chiloé: El Bordemar (1991) and Reunión (1994) at the Regional Museum of Ancud, La Selva Fría at the Chiloé Museum of Modern Art, Retrospectiva (2002) and Residencia en el Valle (2005) at the Museum of Visual Arts (Santiago), Adoremos (1998), Intervenciones, Cruces y Desvíos (1998), Relatos Breves (2003), Fotografía Contemporánea (2006) and Exposición Centenario (2010) at the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts, Des-Ahogo (2000) at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and the Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, Fragmentos de una Memoria (2001) at the Chilean National History Museum, among other exhibitions in Chile, Latin America, the United States, and Europe. In 2000 and 2003 she received the Altazor Award for National Arts in the Photography category for Adoremos and Ojo de Agua respectively.

• Los fabulosos Valck (2005) together with Margarita Alvarado

Mariana Matthews is recorded with the occupation photographer. Recorded as photographer and curator.