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Luis Camnitzer

German-Uruguayan, 1937

Lubeck, Germany

PrintmakingConceptual Art

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None documented

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131

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• Conceptual Art

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Committed to Print

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1988

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Etchings Etc.

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1972–1973

About

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Luis Camnitzer is a Uruguayan artist and theorist working across conceptual art, printmaking, and installation since the 1960s. His practice interrogates language, memory, and political representation through text-based works, etchings, and site-specific interventions that often engage questions of exile, colonialism, and historical erasure. Operating between the Americas and Europe, Camnitzer has been central to expanding conceptual art beyond its North Atlantic origins, treating art as a tool for critical pedagogy rather than object production.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 25d ago

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago Tate

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Artworks (82)

Memorial

2009 · Portfolio of 195 digital prints

each: 13 x 10 3/4" (framed)

Museum of Modern Art

They Worked through the Night, plate one from Uruguayan Torture Series

1983 · Color photo-etching from five plates on ivory wove paper

Image/plate: 24.7 × 29 cm (9 3/4 × 11 7/16 in.); Sheet: 75.2 × 55 cm (29 5/8 × 21 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Plate 35 from Uruguayan Torture Series

1983 · Color photo-etching from four plates on ivory wove paper

Image: 29.4 × 24.1 cm (11 5/8 × 9 1/2 in.); Plate: 29.9 × 24.9 cm (11 13/16 × 9 13/16 in.); Sheet: 75 × 55.5 cm (29 9/16 × 21 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Plate 33 from Uruguayan Torture Series

1983 · Photo-etching in black on ivory wove paper

Plate: 29.9 × 25 cm (11 13/16 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet: 75 × 55.3 cm (29 9/16 × 21 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Plate 32 from Uruguayan Torture Series

1983 · Color photo-etching from four plates on cream wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)

Image/plate/primary support: 25 × 30 cm (9 7/8 × 11 13/16 in.); Secondary support: 75 × 55.2 cm (29 9/16 × 21 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

I Was Unable To, plate 34 from Uruguayan Torture Series

1983 · Color photo-etching from four plates on ivory wove paper

Image: 19.1 × 29.1 cm (7 9/16 × 11 1/2 in.); Plate: 19.5 × 29.6 cm (7 11/16 × 11 11/16 in.); Sheet: 75 × 55.5 cm (29 9/16 × 21 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Sense of Order Was Seeping Away, plate 31 from Uruguayan Torture Series

1983 · Color photo-etching from five plates on ivory wove paper

Image: 24 × 28.6 cm (9 1/2 × 11 5/16 in.); Plate: 24.9 × 29.8 cm (9 13/16 × 11 3/4 in.); Sheet: 75.2 × 56 cm (29 5/8 × 22 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

He Wrapped it with Reverence Envisioning His Escape, plate 30 from Uruguayan Torture Series

1983 · Color photo-etching from five plates on ivory wove paper

Image: 23.4 × 28.9 cm (9 1/4 × 11 7/16 in.); Plate: 24.2 × 29.8 cm (9 9/16 × 11 3/4 in.); Sheet: 74.8 × 55 cm (29 1/2 × 21 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Committed to Print

New York · 1988

Exhibition Committed to Print Museum of Modern Art

New York · 1988

Group Exhibition Etchings Etc.

New York · 1972

Exhibition Etchings Etc.Museum of Modern Art

New York · 1972