About The Artist
APPLIED STUDIES:
MA Degree in Plastic Arts, with emphasis on Watercolor. School of Plastic Arts. Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Costa Rica, 1980. BA of Plastic Arts, specializing in painting. School of Plastic Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Costa Rica, 1979.
AWARDS:
2019, SINTERCAFE, First Place, Small Format Art.
All Planet Earth, Contemporary Art Gallery Online.
Honorable mention, Two-dimensional Biennial Marco Aurelio Aguilar, Municipal Museum of Cartago, 2019.
Second place, First artistic contest “Deep Look” Talentum Gallery San José, Costa Rica 2017.
First place “Painting Contest Salon Chile 2017”, National Gallery, San José, Costa Rica 2017.
Honorable Mention, III Annual Hall ADN-CCRI, Municipal Museum of Cartago 2015.
First Place II Annual Exhibition of the Costa Rican Association of Visual Artists (ACAV 2015.
2010 Mention of honor first Biennial of the Ibero-American textile network, Centro Cultural Norteamericano-Costa Rica.
2001 First place, SINTERCAFÉ.
Contest1997 Second place, VII Drawing Contest, Ministry of Culture and CCSS 1980 Third place Urban Landscape Contest, Ministry of Culture, Costa Rica.
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2015 Participation in the Sixth Biennial of Beijing, China, (September 2015).
2007 XVI Ibero-American Salon, Washington D.C. “The color of a memory” representative work of Costa Rica.
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
A total of 29 individual exhibitions in her artistic career, among which are: 2019, “Landscapes to watch” Gallery of the University Council, U.C.R.
2017, “Do without” National Gallery, San José, Costa Rica.
2013 “Suggestions for living”, Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia Museum, San José, Costa Rica.
2012 University of Costa Rica, “OBSESSIONS”, Atlantic Headquarters.
2012 VIP Lounge Santamaria Airport, blank jobs, Costa Rica.
2011 Dédalo Gallery, “Sewn Papers”, Lima, Peru.
2008 French Alliance, Costa Rica “Situations of Silence”
2007 Embassy of Costa Rica in Washington D.C. U.S.A. Wise Theme Exhibition.
2004 ”Loose Images’ García Monge Gallery, National Theater.
1997 Individual Exhibition "Los Escapularios", Mexican Cultural Center. 1996 I Biennial Exhibition Paiz Centroamericana de Arte Guatemala City, Guatemala.
1994 Tapestry Exhibition, Joaquín García Monge Gallery, Costa Rica.
1993 Individual exhibition Museum "House of the Municipality", Panama.
1982 Individual exhibition of Watercolors, Galería Destellos.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS:
I have more than 50 collective exhibitions in which the following stand out:
2019, Fabriano in Acquarello, Fabriano in watercolor, Italy.
2018, Rate yourself “Theological” Municipal Museum of Cartago, San José, Costa Rica.
2017: III Annual Hall ADN-CCRI, Municipal Museum of Cartago 2016: October First International Meeting of Sculpture and Miniature Watercolor, Jade Museum, Costa Rica.
2016: November "Animalistic Encounter" National Gallery.
2016: “Urban Memory, Identities. Amón Cultural House, San José.
2016: September, “Polska Rica” textile exhibition at the Art School in Lodz, Poland.
2016: May, 15 Triennial of Textile Art, Poland.
2016 April “Rubén Darío, engravings” National Gallery.
2015 December “Agreement in Disagreement”, National Gallery.
2016 December “Erotic Pleasure”, Brazilian Cultural Center.
2015 November, "Memory Recovery" National Library Art Book.
2015 November ”VI Urban Memory Plein Air Costa Rica” in Barrio Amón, TEC.
2 015 July, The art of the Federated College of Engineers and Architects, Rafael Ángel Felo García Gallery.