Nationality: Spain

Santiago Sierra Martín (b. 1966, Madrid, Spain), after graduating in fine arts at the Complutense University of Madrid, completed his artistic training in Hamburg. His work critically examines structures of power underlying labour exploitation, economic inequality, racial discrimination, and migration. Drawing on strategies associated with Minimal, Conceptual, and Performance Art of the 1960s and 1970s, Sierra produces interventions that confront viewers with the social and political realities embedded in contemporary systems of capital and control.

Exhibited work:

Hooded Woman Seated Facing The Wall, 2003