Teresa Margolles (b.1963, Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico) is a visual artist who lives and works in Madrid. She has developed a unique, restrained language to speak for her silenced subjects, the victims discounted as ‘collateral damage’ and nameless statistics. Her oeuvre contains powerful artworks that demand attention to violence, poverty, and alienation; for exposing the social and economic order that renders violent and destitute deaths, an accepted normality; for her courage and integrity in transgressing social and artistic conventions; and for speaking truth to power through public exposure of government complicity in violence and poverty throughout the world. Solo exhibitions include: Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London, UK, in 2024, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems; Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, (all in 2019); Witte de With, Rotterdam; Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, (both 2018); Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal (2017); Neuberger Museum, New York (2015); Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2014); Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2010) and Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2004).