SMU Meadows School of the Arts annually chooses two recipients to be awarded the prestigious Meadows Prize.
The award was first given in Oct. 2009, and two new recipients are annually chosen.
According to Meadows, “recipients of the award are pioneering artists and scholars who posses an emerging international profile, are active in a discipline represented by one of the academic units within Meadows School of the “arte útil,” which refers to useful art.
She graduated with a Masters in Fine Arts from the School of Art Institute of Chicago and studied at Instituto Superior de Arte in Cuba.
Bruguera was born in Cuba and has showcased her work worldwide.
A few of the locations where she has exhibited her art include Shanghai, Venice and Sao Paolo.
Currently she is an Assistant Professor at The University of Chicago in their Department of Visual Arts.
Bruguera founded Arte de Conducta, which is a program at her Alma Mater in Havana.
Sirota will be at SMU April 1-14, 2013 and Oct. 7-19 and Bruguera will stay April 7-20, 2013 and Sept. 22-Oct. 5.