Alicia Villarreal (artist)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Villarreal and the second or maternal family name is Mesa.
Alicia Villarreal
Born
Alicia María Villarreal Mesa

December 1957
Santiago
NationalityChilean
OccupationVisual arts
Notable workEjercicio de copia
Musba, Museo de Barrio
Condición de lugar
Websitewww.aliciavillarrealchile.cl

Alicia María Villarreal Mesa (born December 1957) is a Chilean visual artist, professor, and curator.[1] She specializes in avant-garde conceptual art and experimentalism. She studied the visual arts at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and later at the Erg Saint-Luc School Search Graphique in Brussels. Her work shows "a reflective dimension on personal and collective memory and on language and the means of artistic production."[2]

In 2003, she was nominated for the Altazor Award's category for Installation and Videoart for her work Ejercicio de copia.[3] Five years later, Villarreal received another nomination for the same award and category for Musba, Museo de Barrio and yet again in 2009 for Condición de lugar.[4][5] In 2010, she finally received the Altazor Award for Grabar el Territorio, en la muestra colectiva Territorios de Estado: Paisaje y Cartografía de Chile, Siglo XIX and in that same year was decorated by the Circle of Critics of Chilean Art.[6][7]

Villarreal has participated in several solo and group exhibitions during her career, among them the Fifth Valparaíso International Art Biennial in 1981, Ave 87, the video installation of the Arnhem Audiovisual Festival in the Netherlands in 1987, the first Visual Arts Biennial of Mercosur - Vertiente Cartography in Porto Alegre a decade later, the 2012 Havana Biennial,[8] and exhibitions of her works Los Límites de la Fotografía, Campos de Hielo, Arte Joven en Chile (1986-1996), Chile: 100 años tercera etapa, La Escuela Imaginaria, Territorios de Estado, Trienal de Artes Visuales and Exposición Centenario at the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts (1996, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2009 and 2010 respectively), Mavi la Colección at the Museo de Artes Visuales (2011), and other smaller exhibits elsewhere in Chile, Latin America, the United States of America, Canada, and Europe.[2][9][10][11][12][13]

  1. ^ Aedo, Katherine (21 April 2011). "La vanguardia creativa encontró su lugar en la ciudad". El Mercurio (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  2. ^ a b "Alicia Villarreal (1957-)". artistasplasticoschilenos.cl (in Spanish). Chilean Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  3. ^ "Alicia Villarreal - Ejercicios de copia". premioaltazor.cl (in Spanish). Altazor – Premio a las Artes Nacionales. Archived from the original on 28 December 2010. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  4. ^ "Alicia Villarreal - Musba, Museo de Barrio". premioaltazor.cl (in Spanish). Altazor – Premio a las Artes Nacionales. Archived from the original on 31 August 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  5. ^ "Alicia Villarreal - Condición de lugar". premioaltazor.cl (in Spanish). Altazor – Premio a las Artes Nacionales. Archived from the original on 1 September 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  6. ^ "Alicia Villarreal - Grabar el Territorio, en la muestra colectiva Territorios de Estado: Paisaje y Cartografía. Chile, Siglo XIX". premioaltazor.cl (in Spanish). Altazor – Premio a las Artes Nacionales. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  7. ^ "Premios se entregarán en enero en el GAM: Círculo de Críticos de Arte escoge a los mejores del Bicentenario". El Mercurio (in Spanish). 12 December 2010. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  8. ^ Ortiz de Rozas, Marilú (11 May 2012). "Galería Animal: Objetos de uso público". El Mercurio (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  9. ^ Ortiz de Rozas, Marilú (3 August 2010). "Se inaugura mañana, en Galería Patricia Ready: SOS de un jardín en préstamo". El Mercurio (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  10. ^ Silva Astorga, Daniela (21 June 2010). "Desde hoy, en Galería Metropolitana: Maquetas que reviven un fantasma". El Mercurio (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  11. ^ Armendáriz Azcárate, Maite (10 April 2011). "Nuevo Centro de Arte Contemporáneo se suma a la vida cultural de Las Condes". El Mercurio (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  12. ^ Lara B., Carolina (31 May 2002). "Galería Animal: Objetos de uso público". El Mercurio (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  13. ^ Silva Astorga, Daniela (16 April 2011). "La apuesta 2011 del centro cultural gira en torno a la comunidad: Plantas y objetos cotidianos se convierten en arte en Matucana 100". El Mercurio (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2013.