Juan Travnik

Juan Travnik (b.1950). Buenos Aires, Argentina. He began his photography studies in 1966. He is a photographer, curator and teacher. He has worked as a graphic reporter, portraitist and advertising photographer. He participated as an artist, lecturer and curator in colloquiums, meetings and international festivals. He is a founding member of the Argentine Photography Council. From 1998 to 2015 he directed the Photo Gallery of the San Martín Theater. In 2001 he created and conducted until 2015 the Photographic Space of the Teatro de la Ribera. He is a Member of the National Academy of Fine Arts. He works as a teacher in the field of photography. He directs the Bachelor of Photography at the National University of San Martín. He has written numerous catalogs, presentations, notes and essays on the subject. His photographs were presented in countless individual and collective shows in Argentina, USA, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay, Spain, France, Belgium, Italy, Russia and Slovenia, among other countries. His works appear in different monographic books and anthologies of Argentine and Latin American photography. Among the most important collections that have their works can be mentioned: National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, United States; Bibliothèque National de France, Paris, France; University of Salamanca, Spain; Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi, Belgium; Federico Klemm Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark; Lehigh University Collection, United States. Among other distinctions, he won the Platinum Konex (2012), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Scholarship (2006), the Silver Pyramid to the Trajectory, the Visual Arts Academic Foundation (1998) and the Foundation Award Klemm to the Visual Arts (2004). His works have been published in numerous anthologies, and in the following personal books: Juan Travnik Paisajes. Antennae Collection. Text by Julio Fuks. New York, United States, 2014. Falklands. Portraits and landscapes of war. Photographs by Juan Travnik. Lariviere editions. Argentina, 2008. los restos. Argentine photographers collection. Dilan Editors. Argentina, 2006. Juan Travnik. University of Salamanca editions. Spain, 1997.