Education

1995     Taller Artes Visuales, Santiago, Chile      Printmaking

1993     School of Fine Arts, Viña del Mar, Chile   Printmaking

1992     School of Fine Arts, Valparaiso, Chile     

Solo Exhibitions

2003   “Resistencia Cultural”, La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA

1999   “Pichanga”, La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA

1995     “Una boca apagará todos los fuegos”, Sala 1913, Santiago, Chile

Group Exhibitions

2004     “Visual Poetry”, Heritage Square, Emeryville, CA

2003    “Two 9/11s in a Lifetime – A Project and Exhibit on the Politics of Memory”, The New College, San Francisco, CA

            “Moment’s Notice”, Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

2001    “The Chilean Diaspora series”, La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA

            “Coalition on Homelessness art auction”, SomArtsGallery”, San Francisco,CA

2000    “Latinamerican Month III”, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA

            “Prision Artshow, The Dry Hole”, Balazo Mission Badland Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Circo de Mayo”, Balazo Mission Badland Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Memory, Justice and Aesthetics in post Pinochet Chile”, La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA

1999     “SOFO South of Fourth Street”, The Underground Gallery, San Rafael, CA

1998    “Victor Jara 25 years”, La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA

“Annual grafica”, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA

1997    “Three Visions, One Show”, La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA

“Masks of Mirth and Memory”, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA

“The Magic Box”, Epic Arts, Oakland, CA

1996    “Printmaking from Chile”, Show n Tell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1995    “Grabados T.A.V.” Centro Cultural de Puente Alto, Santiago, Chile

“Estampas del Cono Sur” Malaspina Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

1993    “Colectiva”, Escuela de Bellas Artes, Quinta Vergara, Viña del Mar, Chile

“Expo Joven”, Universidad Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile

“Plástica Joven”, Biblioteca Severín, Valparaíso, Chile

“Bajo fianza”, Centro Cultural de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

1992          “Yerba Buena 383”, Valparaíso, Chile

Commissions

2000     Illustration for a short story in “Lucero” - A Journal of Latin American Studies,

University of California, Berkeley, CA

1989     School Mural in Liceo de Olmue, Olmue, Chile

have always believed in art as an effective means of expanding the human conscience.  It is one of the many forms of struggle against oppression, injustice, hunger, ignorance, and war, i.e. bad governance.  My work represents a long process of internal search, and at the same time, it tries to represent the voices silenced through violence and indifference.  It wants to trigger consciousness.  It is an intelligent weapon with its own life, willing to fire ideas, dialogues and discussions for the development of our understanding as human beings.  It is a tool of denouncement, reflection, criticism and recovery of our (amnesic) historic memory. 

The core of my work is the human soul, its relation to its environment and its spiritual, physical and internal struggles.  It proclaims union, respect, peace and solidarity.  It is rebellious by nature and it struggles for social and internal change, and for a more just and worthy planet.  Cheers to the rebels of the planet and to the indigenous and social struggles.  Freedom is not a dream