Rafael Montañez Ortiz

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Rafael Montañez Ortiz is a pioneering Puerto Rican-born artist and educator known for his contributions to destruction art and for advancing Latino and Latin American representation in the U.S. art world.


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instanceOf artist
conceptual artist
educator
performance artist
person
video artist
birthDate 1934-10-24
birthPlace Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
employer Mason Gross School of the Arts
Rutgers University
ethnicGroup Puerto Rican
familyName Montañez Ortiz
fieldOfWork conceptual art
experimental film
performance art
video art
founded El Museo del Barrio
foundedIn 1969
foundedInPlace East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
genre destruction art
experimental film
video art
givenName Rafael
hasRole Latino art advocate
cultural activist
museum founder
influencedBy Dada
Fluxus movement
Surrealism
languageSpoken English
Spanish
movement Fluxus
Happenings
Neo-Dada
destruction art
name Rafael Montañez Ortiz
notableFor advancing Latino and Latin American representation in the U.S. art world
founding El Museo del Barrio
pioneering destruction art practices
notableWork Archaeological finds series
Film destruction pieces
Piano Destruction Concerts
occupation artist
educator
professor
positionHeld Professor of Art

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foundedBy
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