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Beginning with his first exhibition with Galeria Vandres in 1971, followed by a subsequent relocation to New York, Muntadas has been a vibrant contributor to the visual arts community for 40 years. Early seminal installations (to name only a few) include Emisio/Recepcio, 1974, The Last Ten Minutes, 1976-77 and On Subjectivity, 1978. As a pioneer of video and installation, he continued with further installations such as La Television, 1980, Exposicion/Exhibition, 1985-87, The Board Room, 1987, and the seminal eight channel video installation entitled Between the Frames (The Forum), 1983-93. Following The File Room, 1994, Muntadas embarked on an extended series of installations called Proyectos/Projects investigating means of contextualization and interpretation.

Muntadas has exhibited in numerous museums, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Berkeley Art Museum in California, the Musée Contemporain de Montreal, the Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires, the Museo de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro and the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, while other international events in which he has presented work are the VI and X editions of Documenta Kassel (1977, 1997), the Whitney Biennial of American Art (1991) the Whitney Biennial of American Art (1991), the 51st Venice Biennial (2005) and those in Sáo Paulo, Lyon, Taipei, Gwangju and Havana.

Subsequently to On Translation: I Giardini displayed at the Spanish Pavilion at the 51st edition of the Venice biennial, his lastest solo exhibitions include Protokolle, Wűrttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Muntadas. Proyectos Urbanos (2002/2005), Ö Hacia Sevilla 2008, Centro de las Artes de Sevilla and Muntadas. Histoires du couteau, Le Creux de lienfer, Centre diart contemporain, Thiers. In 2006 he presented the installation On Translation: Social Networks at the Inter-Society of Electronic Arts in San José, California, a two-year project realized in collaboration with students of the CADRE Laboratory for New Media at the San José State University, and in 2007 exhibited Muntadas/BS. AS. simultaneously at the Telefónica Foundation Space, the Recoleta Cultural Center and the Spanish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires. In 2008 he has presented Petit et Grand at the Cervantes Institute in Paris and Muntadas: The Construction of Fear and the Loss of Public Space at the José Guerrero Cultural Centre in Granada.