Maria Burundarena - ART NOW! Lecture

Art as Transformation
Maria Burundarena explores the power of art to transform spaces, offering new ways of seeing, experiencing, and being in the world. Through installation and site-specific interventions, she challenges perceptions, using photography, collage, and sculptural forms to reassemble overlooked surfaces and reimagine their presence. Her work navigates the boundaries between materiality and image, seducing and disorienting through shifts in scale, light, and context.

María Burundarena (b. 1989, Paris) is a Chicago-based visual artist and educator raised in Buenos Aires. Her work spans garment design, photography, and installations using print media, light projection, and reflective materials. She has exhibited at ZAZ 10 Times Square, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago Artists Coalition, and Cleve Carney Museum of Art, among others. In 2024, she was named one of Chicago's Breakout Artists and received the DCASE Individual Artists Program grant. She holds a BFA from Universidad de Buenos Aires (FADU) and an MFA from SAIC, where she currently is a lecturer in the Contemporary Practices Department.

Headshot photo credit: Eugene I-Peng Tang

Silver peninsula, 2022, site specific installation, Northerly Island Chicago, Dimensions variable, Courtesy of the artist

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