Santiago Sierra Biography

Since the mid-nineties Sierra has realised a large number of projects including collaborations with institutions such as Magasin3 Stockholm Konsthall (2009), Kestnergesellschaft Hannover (2005) and Kunsthaus Bregenz (2004). Since 2010, Sierra’s project has traversed the world, commissioning the construction of giant letters from materials of local importance, and then publicly and dramatically destroying them. Santiago’s work Destroyed Word was recently presented by the 2012 Melbourne Festival (courtesy of Greenaway Art Gallery & GAGProjects) - an epic visual arts project spanning two years and ten countries – ending its trail of destruction in Melbourne, with a towering typographic inferno. Santiago currently lives and works in Madrid, Spain.