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Antoni Muntadas addresses social, political and communication issues, such as the relationship between public and private space within certain social frameworks or information channels and how these are used to censor or promulgate ideas. Muntadas presents his projects in different media, such as photography, video, publications, the internet, installations and interventions in urban spaces.

Muntadas has taught classes and held seminars at various institutions in Europe and the United States, including the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, the Schools of Fine Arts in Bordeaux and Grenoble, the University of California at San Diego, the San Francisco Art Institute, Cooper Union of New York, the University of São Paulo, and the University of Buenos Aires.

He has also been an artist in residence and a lecturer at several research and education centres, including the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, the Banff Centre in Alberta, Arteleku in San Sebastián, the Studio National des Arts Contemporains Le Fresnoy and the University of Western Sydney. Of particular note is his long career as a visiting professor in the Visual Arts Program at the MIT School of Architecture in Cambridge (1990-2014). He is currently a professor at the University Institute of Architecture of the Veneto in Venice.

Muntadas has received numerous awards and fellowships from institutions such as the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, Electronica in Linz, Laser d'Or in Locarno, the National Prize for Visual Arts awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya and the National Prize for Visual Arts 2005. One of his most recent awards is the 2009 Velázquez Prize for Visual Arts, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

He has held solo exhibitions at several institutions, including the MoMA in New York, the Berkeley Art Museum in California, the Musée Contemporain in Montreal, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires, the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro and the Museu d'Art Contemporani in Barcelona.

His presence in international exhibitions includes his participation in the VI and X editions of Documenta in Kassel (1977, 1997), the Whitney Biennial of American Art (1991) and the 51st Venice Biennale (2005), as well as those in São Paulo, Lyon, Taipei, Gwangju and Havana.