Juan Downey, artista visual, grabador y uno de los pioneros del video arte, nació en Santiago el 11 de mayo de 1940 y murió en New York, el 9 de junio de 1993…
Juan Downey’s contribution to the history of video art was celebrated in a lecture by John Hanhardt, Senior Curator of Film and Media Arts at the Guggenheim Museum…
One of video’s most original voices, Juan Downey produced a major body of work that interweaves a sophisticated multicultural discourse with an idiosyncratic search for identity.