Maracaibo is a city and municipality in northwestern Venezuela, on the western shore of the strait that connects Lake Maracaibo to the Gulf of Venezuela. It is the second-largest city in Venezuela, after the national capital, Caracas, and the capital of the state of Zulia. The population of the city is approximately 2,658,355 with the metropolitan area estimated at 5,278,448 as of 2010. Maracaibo is nicknamed "The Beloved Land of the Sun".
Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt, known as Gego, was a modern German-Venezuelan visual artist. Gego is perhaps best known for her geometric and kinetic sculptures made in the 1960s and 1970s, which she described as "drawings without paper".
Carlos Cruz-Diez was a Venezuelan artist said by some scholars to have been "one of the greatest artistic innovators of the 20th century."
Italian Venezuelans are Venezuelan-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Venezuela during the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in Venezuela. Italians were among the largest groups of European immigrants to settle in the country. Approximately 5 million Venezuelans have some degree of Italian ancestry, corresponding to about 16% of the total population of Venezuela, while there were around 30,000 Italian citizens in Venezuela.
Miss Venezuela 2008 was the 55th Miss Venezuela pageant, was held in Caracas, Venezuela, on September 10, 2008, after weeks of events. The winner of the pageant was Stefanía Fernández, Miss Trujillo.
Stefanía Fernández Krupij is a Venezuelan journalist, model and beauty queen who won the Miss Venezuela 2008 and Miss Universe 2009 titles. She earned a Guinness World Records by being the first Miss Universe winner who was crowned by a compatriot.
Laksmi Rodríguez de la Sierra Solórzano is a Venezuelan model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Venezuela International 2008. She competed in the Miss International 2009 beauty pageant.
Dayana Sabrina Mendoza Moncada is a Venezuelan actress, model, film producer, director and beauty queen. She winner of the titles of Miss Venezuela 2007 and Miss Universe 2008.
Mayra Matos Pérez is a Puerto Rican actress, writer, fashion model and beauty pageant titleholder who held the title of Miss Teen International 2006 and Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2009.
Miss Venezuela 2009 was the 56th Miss Venezuela pageant, was held at the Poliedro de Caracas in Caracas, Venezuela, on September 24, 2009. Stefanía Fernández, Miss Venezuela 2008 and Miss Universe 2009, crowned Miss Miranda, Marelisa Gibson, as her successor at the end of the event.
Marelisa Gibson Villegas is a Venezuelan designer and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Venezuela 2009 and represented her country at Miss Universe 2010 in Las Vegas.
Polish Venezuelans are Venezuelan citizens of full or partial Polish ancestry. The Polish colony in Venezuela is well dispersed throughout the country, but most of the Poles and their descendants live in big cities like Caracas, Maracaibo and Valencia.
Oswaldo Vigas was a Venezuelan artist, best known as a self-taught painter and muralist. His work includes paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, ceramics and tapestries. He worked in France and Venezuela. He had over one hundred solo exhibitions, and is represented in numerous public institutions and private collections around the world.
Sofía Ímber was a Romanian-born Venezuelan journalist and supporter of the arts. She was the founder of the Contemporary Art Museum of Caracas.
Romanian Venezuelans are Venezuelans of Romanian descent or a Romania-born person who resides in Venezuela.
Marius Sznajderman was a painter, printmaker and scenic designer who lived and worked in the United States.
Amanda Dudamel Newman is a Venezuelan fashion designer, model, philanthropist and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Venezuela 2021. She represented the Region Andina at the pageant. She also represented Venezuela at the Miss Universe 2022 competition placing as the 1st Runner-Up.
Juan Astorga was a Venezuelan academic, architect, art critic, curator, editor, avant-garde artist, and film scriptwriter. He was passionate about information technologies and the Internet and their use in the process of art creation and preservation. His main areas of interest included Cybernetic art and Web Curatorship. In 1989 he created, with the support of the Department of Art History of the University of the Andes, the repository of information on Latin American art "VEREDA, Venezuela Red de Arte".
