Doris Salcedo was born in 1958 in Bogotá where she continues to live and work. Recognized since the early 1990s as one of the leading sculptors of her generation, her work has been included in numerous exhibitions such as “Carnegie International 1995,” Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; “Roteiros, XXIV Bienal de São Paulo,” Brazil (1998); “Trace, The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art” (1999); “Documenta 11,” Kassel (2002); “8th International Istanbul Biennial” (2003); “The 80s: A Topology,” Museu Serralves, Porto (2007) and her installation of ‘Shibboleth’ in Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, also in 2007. From April 2010 through February 2013, the artist’s most recent installation, ‘Plegaria Muda,’ has and will travel to museums throughout Europe and South America. Her work will be included in the exhibition “This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, which will subsequently travel to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.