Juan Downey, Chilean (1940 -1993)

He served as associate professor for the School of Architecture and the media department at the Pratt Institute from 1970 to 1991. His videotapes, drawings, performances and installations have been exhibited in solo or group shows at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (including six Whitney Biennials); the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; the Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; and the Venice Biennale. In 1997 the IVAM Centro Julio Gonzalez in Valencia, Spain hosted a major retrospective of his work. At the 49th Venice Biennale Plateau for Human Kind, he received an honorable mention for excellence in Art, Science and Technology for his video installation About Cages.