Alonsa Guevara

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Alonsa Guevara
BornDecember 13, 1986
Rancagua, Chile
Education New York Academy of Art, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Known forPainting
Website alonsaguevara.com

Alonsa Guevara (born 1986) [1] is a Chilean contemporary realist oil painter [2] living and working in New York City. Her paintings are a depiction of imaginary worlds that mix fantastical and believable traits.

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Biography

Alonsa Guevara Aliaga was born in Rancagua, Chile [3] and grew up for 7 years in the Ecuadorean jungle, [4] before moving to the United States in 2011. She began making art at the age of 12. [5] She studied at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and for a Masters at the New York Academy of Art, before being awarded their Fellowship in 2015. [6] She lives in New York City, where her work has been featured by publications such as VICE, [4] Business Insider [7] and TimeOut. [8]

Style & themes

Guevara's early works focused on constructions of invented worlds containing characters in the form of female fashion models, represented as crumpled paper, [9] the intricate structures of fruit, representing "desire, fecundity, and fertility", [7] and included homages to other female artists such as Judy Chicago. [10] Her current works juxtapose tropical fruits and mostly female nudes to represent life-cycles, the connection between humankind, [11] nature and spiritual themes. [12]

Exhibitions

Awards & residencies

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