Wilfredo Prieto

Wilfredo Prieto studied at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Havana. He lives and works in Barcelona. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2006 and the 2008 winner of the Cartier Award. His work draws on such post-Conceptual artists as Gabriel Orozco, but also on earlier traditions of narrative and performance. For his 2006 work Mute, for example, he transformed a gallery into a disco dance floor, with spinning and flashing colored lights – but with no music. For the 2008 Frieze Art Fair, Prieto created a site specific piece: a red carpet that traced a route throughout the fair, but ultimately led up to the top of a tall flagpole, where it was impossible to follow.