Pilar Mata Dupont

Pilar Mata Dupont is an Argentinean-Australian producer, filmmaker, and artist living and working in Rotterdam. She has over fifteen years experience working between art, film, and exhibition production. She has worked most recently with the International Film Festival Rotterdam; with Indyvideo at the Eye Filmmuseum and TENT; and with Showroom MAMA and the Piet Zwart Institute for the 2019 Fine Arts graduation exhibition before joining Kunstinstituut Melly as a Producer in July 2021.

Her art practice encompasses video, photography, and performance with a cinematic focus. She has shown her work in spaces such as Secession, Vienna; Center Pompidou, Paris; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei; Seoul Museum of Art; Württem. Kunstverein, Stuttgart; TENT, Rotterdam; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA. In 2015, she won the Plymouth Contemporary Open, UK, and a residency prize at the 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil in São Paulo, Brazil. In 2010 she won the Basil Sellers Art Prize, Australia’s richest art award. She received her Master’s degree from the Dutch Art Institute in 2016.