Soledad Fátima Muñoz is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher born in Canada and raised in Rancagua, Chile. Her work seeks to highlight the historical materiality of textiles and their role in shaping our collective memory. Through her large-scale weavings, sound installations, and audiovisual projects, she hopes to create instances that contribute to the construction of a more equitable society and the production of new archives of resistance.

In addition to her material works, she utilizes different forms of cultural production as part of her practice. In 2014, she started Género, a record label focused on the distribution of women's work in the sound field. Then in 2017, she co-founded CURRENT Symposium, which is an ongoing interdisciplinary multi-day music and electronic art symposium featuring free events, panels, exhibitions, and workshops. More recently, in 2019, she co-created "La Parte de Atrás de la Arpillera'' a collection of interviews with Chilean arpilleristas and textile workers, whose experiences tell the history of resistance in this country.

Muñoz is currently working on her project Woven Memory / Memoria Entretejida, a series of site-specific installations and exhibitions planned around large-scale copper wire weavings, which commemorate the lives of those still missing and murdered during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile.

Soledad received a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, graduated from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, has a diploma in Textile Arts from Capilano University and studied Film at the ARCIS University of Santiago in Chile. She is the recipient of several awards, including the City of Vancouver Emerging Artist Award, the New Artists Society Merit Scholarship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Emily Carr University President's Award, and the Textile Society of America's Student and New Professional Award.

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