Padín, Clemente

Clemente Padín holds a degree in Hispanic Letters from the Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences at the University of the Republic, Uruguay. He is a poet, artist, and graphic designer, as well as a performer, video artist, theorist, and educator. Since the mid-1960s, he has been intensely involved in the production and promotion of experimental art in all its forms, standing out primarily as a visual poet and performer. He directed three of the most significant magazines of the new Latin American avant-gardes of the 20th century: "Los Huevos del Plata" (1965-1969), "OVUM 10" and "OVUM" (1969-1975), as well as the magazines "Participación" (1984-1986) and "Correo del Sur" (2000). He contributes to the magazine "Escaner Cultural: Virtual Magazine of Contemporary Art and New Trends." He is the author of about twenty books published in various countries. Since 1971, he has participated in nearly 200 group exhibitions and over a thousand mail art exhibitions, with notable solo exhibitions at Galería U (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1973), Art Space (Hyogo, Japan, 1986), Yellow Spring Institute (Philadelphia, 1997), and Weserburg Museum (Bremen, 2010). He won the Figari Prize in 2005. Since the International Exhibition of New Poetry at the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences and at Galería U, Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1969, he has organized dozens of exhibitions and artistic events such as the Creative Postcard Festival (Montevideo, the first documented mail art exhibition in Latin America, 1974), the First Video Art Festival (Montevideo, 1986), the Latin American Street Art Festival (Montevideo, 1990), and the Rioplatense Festival of Experimental Poetry (Montevideo, 1996), among others.