Gloria Camiruaga

Gloria Camiruaga (5 October 1940 – 10 April 2006) was a Chilean videographer born in Santiago, whose art later became documentary in style. In 1971 she received a degree in philosophy from the University of Chile. After she moved to San Francisco and began her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, graduating in 1980. Camiruaga focused on video art while in San Francisco, and continued making experimental films once she returned to Chile in the early 1980s.

Camiruaga returned to Chile sometime in the early 1980s. During this time, Augusto Pinochet's violent rule dominated the country, threatening extreme punishment as the cost of dissent.

Art works

Mujeres de campamento, 1982. 7:00 min Video. Tricolor, 1983. 11:00 min Video. Popsicles, 1984. 6:00 min Video. Clotario Blest, maestro de paz, 1983. 20:00 min Video. Parada, 1990. 7:00 min Video

Casa Particular In English, the title translates to Particular Home. A documentary that shows Camiruaga interviewing a group of transvestite sex workers in a brothel. Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles. Radical Women in Latin American Art, 1960–1985. In 2018, her work was included in the Brooklyn Museum's exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985.

Collections Her work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.