Eugenia Vargas

Eugenia Vargas-Pereira (born 1949) is an artist. She was born in Chile and moved to the United States to study art. Vargas also traveled to other countries where she would practice and pursue her art career. Her main areas of study for art were performance and photography. She traveled to countries such as the United States, Mexico, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Vargas also traveled to Mexico and other Latin American countries to display her artwork in other exhibitions.

Career Vargas career began with her first solo exhibition in Montana at the University Center Gallery. Her main forms of art are installations, photographs, videos, and performance where she discusses topics such as birth, life, feminism and environmentalism. Her work has been displayed at the Hammer at UCLA, in Santa Cruz, various museums in California and Miami. As well as many exhibitions across Latin America, even Australia. As well as bringing light the play of stereotypes she also used weapons to evoke the conversation of the challenges and issues that guns have evoked. By placing her female subject in red to reference back to the Little Red Riding hood. Vargas's goal here is to bring light to the issues of cannibalism, abjection, and sexuality. and Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City.

Solo exhibitions 1985 Re-tratos, Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan 2002 Eugenia Vargas: The Longest Day of the Year, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami