PUBLICATIONS
(Selection)
Books
| 2018 | Dibujar el límite (Book Drawing the Limit), about the series of 7 Performances/Installations carried out by Janet Toro at Galería Null, Cologne, Germany in 2012/2013, plus the exhibition at MAC (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo), Santiago, Chile, 2017, curated by Soledad Novoa Donoso. National FONDART Competition / Arts / Visuals / 2017. Andros impresores, Chile, 2018. |
| 2016 | In Situ, about the series of 5 Performances/Installations carried out by Janet Toro with the support of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, curated by Dr. Ricardo Loebell, Santiago, Chile, 2015. Editorial Ocho Libros |
| 2012 | El cuerpo de la memoria (The Body of Memory), about a series of 90 Performances/Installations carried out by Janet Toro within the framework of the II Young Art Biennial, Ala Sur, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago Chile 1999. Self-published, with private support. Impresores PBTisk, Pribram, Czech Republic. |
Exhibition Catalogs
| 2020 | Biennial of the Mercosur Catalog, Feminism(s): Visualities, Actions and Affects: curated by Dr. Andrea Giunta, Porto Alegre, Fundação Bienal de Artes Visuals do Mercosul, Brazil |
| 2018 | Catalog Radical Women. Latin American Art 1960-1985, curators: Dr. Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Dr. Andrea Giunta, Printed by the Pinacoteca of Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 2017 | Catalog Radical Women. Latin American Art 1960-1985, curators: Dr. Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Dr. Andrea Giunta, Printed by Hammer Museum and Delmonico Prestel New York, USA |
| 2012 | Catalog of the Kunstmesse 23 (Art Fair), curated by Kathrin Wallat and Marianne Pitzen. Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany. Editions Saxoprint GmbH, Dresden, Germany. |
| 2010 | Catalog of the Tease Art Fair, Cologne, Germany |
| 2008 | Catalog of the exhibition Destruction, Director Christian Hampe, Beate Blaschczok. Clownfisch Magazine for Art, Culture and Design. Publisher Busenmeyer Team |
| 2003 | Catalog of the exhibition: Footprints of Memory. Text by Demis León. Printed in Wodarczak Druck & Medien, Marl, Germany. |
| 1999 | Catalog of the II Biennial of Young Art, Ala Sur. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Texts by Dr. Ricardo Loebell and Guadalupe Santa Cruz. Printed in Offset Bellavista, Santiago, Chile. |
| 1997 | Catalog Remnants. Municipality of Vitacura. Sponsored by Iconos. |
Thesis about or including my work
| 2024 | Doctoral Thesis, Cynthia Grandini: Geometry of Walking. The Walk in the Work of Twelve Latin American Artists. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| 2023 | Master's Degree Thesis, Fernanda Urzúa Reyes: Approaches to the Use of the Body in Performance with a Feminist Focus from the 80-90s and its Development Today. From the Sacrificial Body to the One Claiming Liberation. University of Chile, Faculty of Arts. Department of Theory and History of Art, Santiago, Chile |
| 2021 | Master's Thesis, Clara Padovani: Performances in the Urban Space of Santiago: Occupations and Political and Social Alterations between 1973 and 1999. Universidad Panthéon Sorbonne, France |
| 2016 | Master’s Thesis in Latin American Aesthetics, María Elena Retamal Ruiz: Feminist Knots for a Chilean Performative Cartography 1983-2007. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
| 2015 | Master's Thesis, Roberto Torres de Gestion Culturelle: Art and Memory: Case Study of Post-Dictatorial Chile. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
| 2013 | Bachelor’s Degree Thesis, Galia Arriagada Reyes: Performances, Interstices and Interdisciplinarity. University of Chile, Faculty of Arts. Department of Theory of the Arts, Santiago, Chile. |
| 2011 | Master's Thesis, Angela Schmidt: Retelling tales. The Imbunche in contemporary narrative. Universität Potsdam, Germany |
| 2010 | Doctoral Thesis in Art History, Irene Ballester Buigues: The Open Body: Extreme Representations of Women in Contemporary Art. Universidad de Valencia, Spain. |
Books including texts about my work
| 2021 | Text Latent Conflict or Conflicting Latency Liminal Space Between Art Actions and Civic-Military Dictatorship, by Andrés Grumann Sölter and Francisco González Castro. |
| 2017 | Book Sharing the World. The Experience of Women and the Art of María Laura Rosa and Soledad Novoa Donoso. Editorial Metales Pesados, Santiago, Chile |
| 2016 | Book Performance Art in Chile: Histories, Processes and Discourses, by Francisco González, Brian Smith and Leonora López. Editorial Metales Pesados, Santiago, Chile |
| 2013 | Book From Discourse to Exhibition. II International Seminar History of Art and Feminism. Text by María Eugenia Brito: Gender and Power in Chilean Post-Vanguard Art. Dibam. Andros impresores, Santiago, Chile |
| 2001 | Book Robert Neustadt: EVERY DAY: The Creation of a Social Art. Editorial Cuarto Propio, Santiago, Chile. |
Articles in art magazines
| 2024 | Magazin Artribune. Text by Federica La Paglia: Chile's art and culture 50 years after the Coup. Via Ottavio Gasparri, 13/17 – 00152, Rome, Italy |
| 2023 | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Text by Mane Adaro: Passing Through the Body: Recent Exercises of Memory and Collectivity, Forty Years After the Dictatorship in Chile. Travesia. Volume 31. Registered in England & Wales No.3099067 |
| 2022 | Harvard review of Latin America. Text by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill: The gift of art. Universidad Harvard, Cambridge, United States |
| 2021 | Eure. Text by Francisca Márquez and Andrés Góngora: Urban Ruins. Topophilias and Narratives of Dispossession in Santiago and Bogotá. |
| 2019 | Art Nexus, text by Amalia Caputo: Janet Toro. Torre Villavicencio. Impresión Panamericana Formas e Impresos S.A. Bogotá, Colombia. |
| 2017 | Revista de Artes visuales (Journal of Visual Arts), ERRATA # [17] Feminisms. Text by Sol Astrid Giraldo O.: Street Performers and Public Space in Latin America. Instituto Distral de las Artes-Idartes, Carrera 8 No. 15 - 46 - Bogotá, Colombia |
| 2014 | Arte Al Límite (Art at the Limit), periodical. Text by Soledad Cabello: Janet Toro. A Vital Necessity. |
| 2000 | ILA (Informationsstelle für Lateinamerika e.V.). Two texts by Katherin Bergenthal, one text: Art as Action. And the other text: Cycle: The Body of Memory. Printed in Oscar-Romero-Haus, Bonn, Germany |
| 1986 | Konkret (Magazine for Politics and Culture). Text by Wolfgang Albers: Chile is now free. Prestel Editores, München, Germany. |
Awards / Competitions / Recognition
| 2019 | Recognition/purchase by the FAVA Foundation, acquisition of works for the Phoenix Museum, Arizona, curator Gilbert Vicario: artworks from "Body Geometry" (Germany 2010) and video of the performance “This is my body”, MAC, year 2017. |
| 2018 | Funding from CNCA Project Transfer, Workshop – An approach to Performance. Punta Arenas, Chile. |
| 2018 | FONDART National / Open Window. Funding for travel to the exhibition Radical Women. Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo, Brazil. |
| 2018 | FONDART National / Open Window. Funding for travel to the exhibition Radical Women, Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA. |
| 2017 | DIRAC funding for travel to the exhibition Radical Women, Hammer Museum of Los Angeles, California, USA. |
| 2016 | CNCA funding for the Laboratory: Introduction to Performance and its Image at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile. |
| 2012 | Project Grant for Intercultural Projects, Ministry of Culture of Cologne, Germany. (Project grant) |
| 2006 | Art Acquisition, City of Dortmund Competition, where they acquired my painting "The Seeker." |
| 2002 | Art Acquisition, City of Dortmund Competition, where they acquired 3 paintings from my series: Humans. |
Institutional and Private Collections
Collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts. Documentation, drawings and videos from the series The Body of Memory, Santiago, Chile
Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, photographic documentation of the series The Body of Memory and video of the performance The Blood, the River and the Body, video of the performance This is my body. Santiago, Chile.
Permanent Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, United States. -9 works from the series Body Geometry, video of the performance This is my body.
Art collection of the city of Dortmund, Germany, 3 paintings, Series Humans
Private Collection Dr. Christa Schwens, Dortmund, Germany. Series Mácula
Private Collection Alejandra Castro, Drawing from the series Carmine. New York / Dubai
Arthotek Art Collection of the Schmerztherepeutisches Zentrums, St.-Marien Hospital, Dr. med. Eberhard Albert Lux, acquires two paintings from the series The Footprints of Pain. Lünen, Germany.
Private collection Carlos Núñez, Documentation photographies of the Performance/Installation The Foreign, Santiago, Chile
Private collection Frank Henseleit, 3 objects from the series Between the Lines, Cologne, Germany.
Private collection Monika Wohlfart Demtröder, series Between the Lines, Germany
Private Collection Annette Hautkappe. Drawings and paintings, series The Copulation, Dortmund, Germany.
Private Collection Gerda Türke, Various paintings and drawings, Dogs fighting, series Humans, Series Mácula, series The Innocents. Dortmund, Germany.
Exposition texts
Aldo Bombardiere Castro: To Write and Resist with the Body. Janet Toro: three scenes and a chronicle.
Aldo Bombardiere Castro: Participating in Palestine. Reflections on Desgarro (Ripping/Tearing), an artistic installation by Janet Toro. Portal Ficción de la Razón, 2024.
Dr. Christa Schwens, Germany, Text about my installation Isolation, year 2006, from the exhibition Extranjero (Foreigner) year 2007.
Dr. Irene Ballester, Spain, Extreme Metaphors facing pain and from feminism at the end of pages 16-17.
Manel Durán, The Body of Memory. New perspectives from the National Museum of Fine Arts.
Dr. Donatella Chiancone-Schneider, two texts about the series Drawing the Limit and about the exhibition Between Lines. 2011 Brühl, Germany.