Associate Professor of Film/Video Matías Piñeiro has been awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship.
This year, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation is celebrating its centennial with its 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows. A total of 198 exceptional artists and scholars from 53 fields were selected out of a pool of nearly 3,500 applications. The submissions were assessed by a network of former Guggenheim Fellows, who considered both prior career achievement and exceptional promise for future achievement.
The annual grants support up to a year of work, enabling recipients to have more time to dedicate to their creative and scholarly pursuits. “We believe that these creative thinkers can take on the challenges we all face today and guide our society towards a better and more hopeful future,” said Edward Hirsch, award-winning poet and president of the Guggenheim Foundation, in the fellowship announcement.
Piñeiro joined Pratt Institute’s Film/Video faculty in 2016 and teaches a range of courses from Film Fundamentals and Ways of Hearing Cinema to Filmmaker Focus and Senior Studio.
He has written and directed award-winning films, including Regarding Buenos Aires (2006), The Stolen Man (2007), They All Lie (2009), Rosalinda (2010), Viola (2012), The Princess of France (2014), Hermia & Helena (2016), Isabella (2020), and Sycorax (2021). His most recent film, You Burn Me (2024), is based on a text by Cesare Pavese on the figure of the Greek poet Sappho. Piñeiro received the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University in 2011 and the Martin E. Segal Award given by the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. His screenings include the Berlinale Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, and Cannes Film Festival. Retrospectives of his work have been held in American Cinematheque (Los Angeles, 2025), Art House Momo (South Korea, 2025), Institute of Contemporary Art (London, 2024), Tabakalera (Spain, 2023), Jeu de Paume, Musée du Louvre (France, 2018), and Cineteca Nacional (Mexico, 2017), among others.
The book Matías Piñeiro: The Plays of Time was published by Interior XIII in Mexico in 2014. A new book on his body of work will be published by Batalha Centro de Cinema in Porto in January 2026.
Piñeiro received his bachelor’s in filmmaking from Universidad del Cine and his MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University.
Read more about the 2025 Guggenheim Fellowships.