NinaJohnson

Constanza Alarcón Tennen (b. Santiago, 1986) is a Chilean artist working across sound, sculpture, video, and performance. Her practice explores transmaterial dialogues—inhabiting the in-between space of materials and objects—and, in recent years, has focused on fiction, eroticism, and haptics as lenses for engaging with both human and non-human worlds.

She received her BFA from the Universidad Católica de Chile and an MFA in Sculpture at Yale University in 2015. Her work has been shown internationally at venues such as PS122 (New York), Patricia Ready Gallery (Santiago), the 13th Media Arts Biennial (Santiago), Künstlerforum-Bonn (Germany), Atelierhaus Salzamt (Linz, Austria), the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, among others. She has participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Delfina Foundation (London), and B.A.S.E Tsonami (Valparaíso, Chile). 

She published her first poetry compilation as an artist’s book with Otra Sinceridad, a Chilean independent press. Alarcón Tennen works as a teacher and lives between Santiago and Boston.