Born 1986, Santiago, Chile
Lives and works in Santiago, Chile
Studied Visual Arts at the Pontificia Universidad de Chile

María has exhibited her work in galleries of Santiago, Buenos Aires, Brussels and Quebec and participated in international art fairs in New York, Brussels and Gent She was recently one of the invited artists for the project “Gallery of Presidents; Portraits of Presidents of Chile” that will be exhibited in the Government Palace La Moneda.

Artist’s Statement:
With the oil technique I create portraits based on images that only photography can capture. Therefore, unique images turn unique again once they are painted; a new meaning appears for that particular picture, moment and identity.

Through painting the artist investigates ways in which the light structures the scenes and fills them with drama and mystery, as well as photographic defects, – blurred or cut images and strange reframing, for example- can be dignified at the time they are represented.