Antoni Muntadas was born in Barcelona in 1942. Since 1971 he lives in New York. It was one of the first artists conceptual and media artist. Multidisciplinary artist, ranging from photography to video, from installations to urban interventions, he is particularly known for his projects with an artistic use of media and new media, as a social and political tool, as well as the relationship between the public and private space within the social structure. In his forty years of career he has written and produced numerous works of the series defined "Media Landscape" (1977), "Media Architecture installations" (1980 and 1990), "The File Room" - project whose objective is to question the idea of cultural censorship - (1994). Work objects were also the "On series Translation "(1995) and" Asian Protocols ", still ongoing.
His works have been exhibited in the most important and renowned museums and galleries: The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Berkeley Art Museum, C.A., Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires, and many others. He also participated in several international exhibitions, including Documenta VI and X in Kassel, the Biennials Venice, 1972, 1976 and 2005, Whitney Biennial of American Art, Sao Paulo and Lyon, Taipei, Gwangju and The Avana. Besides working as a teacher, and directing seminars in European and US academic institutions, including École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the USP in Sao Paulo, Brazil; he has been a researcher since 1977 at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, and later a professor at the School of Architecture the same MIT in Cambridge from 1990 to 2014. In Italy he works with Galleria Michela Rizzo from 2010
He teaches at the IUAV Faculty of Venice.