Luisa Rivera / London-based artist originally from Chile. She works primarily on paper with water-based media, creating narratives that are inhabited predominantly by women and natural elements, covering themes such as ecology, feminism, and personal memory.
After completing her Fine Arts degree (BFA) in Santiago, Chile, in 2013 she pursued her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) at Minneapolis College of Art and Design (USA) thanks to the support of the Fulbright scholarship and a FONDART grant (Chilean National Fund for the Development of Culture and the Arts).
Recent collective exhibitions include In Between/ness (2024, Somers Gallery, London), The Drawing Board (MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis), Tart Factory (2023, Tart Gallery, London), Rituals (2023, Lea Bridge Library Pavilion, London).
She has published various illustrated books, including “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Love in the Time of Cholera” (Random House Literature, Spain), both novels by Gabriel García Márquez, as well as editions such as “Stories of Love of Madness and Death” by Horacio Quiroga and “Azul” by Rubén Darío (Editorial Alma, Spain). She is also the author of the book “In the Lighthouse” (Liberalia Ediciones, Chile), for which she won a Colibrí Medal awarded by IBBY Chile in 2020.
Luisa Rivera / Artista chilena radicada en Londres. Trabaja principalmente sobre papel con pinturas a base de agua, explorando narrativas habitadas predominantemente por mujeres y elementos naturales que abarcan temas como la ecología, el feminismo y la memoria personal.
Después de completar su grado en Artes Visuales en Santiago de Chile, en 2013 realizó el Máster en Bellas Artes (MFA) en el Minneapolis College of Art and Design, (EEUU) gracias al apoyo de una beca Fulbright y FONDART (Fondo Nacional para el Desarrollo Cultural y las Artes).
Sus exposiciones colectivas recientes incluyen In Between/ness (2024, Somers Gallery, Londres), The Drawing Board (MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, EEUU), Tart Factory (2023, Tart Gallery, Londres), Rituals (2023, Lea Bridge Library Pavilion, Londres).
Ha publicado diversos libros ilustrados, incluyendo “Cien años de soledad” y “El amor en los tiempos del cólera” (Literatura Random House, España) ambas obras de Gabriel García Márquez, al igual que ediciones de obras como “Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte” de Horacio Quiroga y “Azul” de Rubén Darío (Editorial Alma, España). También es autora del libro “En aquel faro” (Liberalia Ediciones, Chile), por el cual ganó una Medalla Colibrí otorgada por IBBY Chile en 2020.
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