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Born in Buenos Aires in 1943, Marta Minujín studied painting, sculpture, engraving, and drawing at a number of Argentine art schools in Buenos Aires, and received a degree in art education. Between 1960 and 1963 she lived in Paris, where she staged her first happenings. She continued to stage happenings on her return to Argentina. In 1966 she moved to New York on a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. She continued to stage happenings and large-scale public actions during the next two decades. Minujín’s recent work reprises her series initiated in the 1960s.