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Born in Guernica.
Arts Graduate of Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid

1978 “Kokoschka, Malher and Alma”

1981/82 Trip to the Middle East, portrait of Queen Noor of Jordan.

1982/85 Serie “Presences”: Portraits of Roa Bastos, García Lorca, Asturias, Bergamín, Borges, Carpentier, Carranza, Rosalía de Castro, Cortázar, Dalí, Ruben Darío, Rómulo Gallegos, Guimaraes Rosa, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Juan Carlos Onetti, Ortega y Gasset, Octavio Paz, Juan Rulfo, Cesar Vallejo.

1985 Trip to Mexico, Visit of “La Casa Azul”(Coyoacán)

1987 Marriage to Enrique Barón Crespo in Venise

1988/89 Birth of her son Alejandro, retires for health problems

1990 Portrait of “Alejandro con el caballito” , Melina Mercouri and Antoni Clavé.

1991 “Alejandro en el Florián”

1991/92 Portrait of Nureyev, Bacon, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, self- portrait with Delvaux, beginning of series “Toreo y Ballet”, “Amore a Venecia”,”Arte contra violencia”, “Tríptico Sarajevo”, Iris.

1993 Portrait of Yehudi Menuhin, Aligi Sassu and Helenita Olivares. “Direction Femmes” with Simone Veil– Frida Kahlo, Choc de civilisations., Series Brel and Gorila Kumba.

1994 Love Prayer with Barbara Hendricks, The wounded hand (Sarajevo) with Susan Sonntag and Juan Goytisolo, Portraits of Hugo Claus, François Mitterrand, Emile Veranneman, Carlos Fuentes, Trip to Mexico.

1995 Portraits of Rafael Alberti ,Saramago, Series Pessoa, le Spectateur ( Casares- Camus) and The Money

1996 “Le temps des cerises” (Piaf –Montand), Portraits of René Cassin and Sami Nair.

1997 Portrait of Semprún, Serie La Poésie, Les Réves de Buñuel, Le Chat Mondain.

1998 Serie “Les oiseaux en Prêt-à-porter et haute couture”, Kumba hot-line, La Chatte mondaine.

1999 Guernica triptych, Stop-Ahead, Iris

2000 Primo Levi, la memoria

2001/02 Serie NY 9/11

2002 Portrait of Jorge Edwards, Iris.

2002/3 Portraits of Maria Callas, Iris.

2004 Messaggio, I bravi, Cardinali veneziani

2004/5 “El llanto de las flores” Madrid-11 M

2006 Alicia ( El llanto de las flores), beginning of Kafka

2007/9 Serie “Kafka, der visionär”

2010 Beginning of “Gandhara”, portraits of Edgar Morin and Gabriela Mistral

 

Collective Exhibitions


1979 Bienal de Oviedo

1980 Muestra pro Derechos Humanos (Madrid)
Premio Francisco de Goya Centenario Círculo de Bellas Artes

1982 Certamen Internacional de Puerto Príncipe

1983 Francisco de Alcántara

1984 Salón de Otoño Bienal de Pontevedra

1985 Fundación Santillana ( Cantabria )

1992 Fundación Delvaux ( Belgium )

1993 Fundación Veranneman ( Belgium )

1998 Casa natal de García Lorca, Fuentevaqueros (Granada)

2004 Centennial of Pablo Neruda, Museo de América ( Madrid )

2008 Portrait of Saramago in “A consistencia dos sonhos”, Palacio de Ajuda, Lisbon; Instituto Tomie Ohtake Sao Paulo (Brasil)



Individual Exhibitions


1979 Museo Municipal, Santander

1986 “Presencias “. Banco de Bilbao (Madrid), Caja Postal (Cádiz)

1987 “Presencias “. Banco Central (Brussels, Antwerp), Caja Madrid (Barcelona)

1988 “Presencias “. Museo de Albacete, Casa de Cultura Torrelodones (Madrid)

1989 “Presencias “.Palacio Garcigrande (Salamanca)

1990 Retrospectiva Palazzo Barzizza Torres (Venise)

1995 “ Pour la tolérance », under the patronage of UNESCO, Palais de la Berbie( Albi ) , Palacio das Galveias (Lisbon)

1996 “Pour la tolérance “ 50º Anniversary UNESCO. Fondation “ Le toit de la Grande Arche “ (Paris)

1997 Veranneman Stichting (Belgium)

1998 Fondation Gulbenkian (Paris)

1999 Guernica Peace Museum

2000/1 “Primo Levi la memoria “. Spazio Auditorium Verdi (Milan)

2002 “Primo Levi, la memoria “ Palazzo Cisterna (Turín)
Modern History Museum Ljubljana (Slovenia)

2003 “Primo Levi, la memoria “ Galeria Biblioteca Berio (Genoa)

2004 “Primo Levi, la memoria “, Fundación Tres Culturas (Sevilla),
Palacio de la Merced (Córdoba ),
“NY 11 S", Palazzo Caccia Canali, Sant’ Oreste (Italy)

2005 “Primo Levi, la memoria “Museo del Ferrocarril, Madrid
“New York 9/11”, Rocca Albornoziana, Spoleto; Castel dell' Ovo (Naples),
Presentation of “Nureyev” and “The firebird” to the Biblioteque Nationale de France, Palais Garnier, Paris

2006 “El llanto de las flores “ Madrid -11 M, Centro Cultural Paco Rabal (Madrid)

2007 “NewYork 9/11” Real Academia de España en Roma
Presentation of portrait of „Rita Levi Montalcini “to Fondazione Levi Montalcini (Rome) and of Federico García Lorca to his Museum in  Fuentevaqueros (Granada)

2008 “Primo Levi, la memoria “in Zagreb (Croatia),
Peresentation of portraits of “Juan Rulfo” and “Julio Cortázar“ to Cátedra Cortázar, Universidad de Guadalajara ( México)

2009 „Kafka, der Visionär“ in Haus am Kleistpark (Berlin)

2010 „Kafka, der Visionär“in Ariowitsch Haus, Leipzig



Collections
 

Museums of Albacete, Santander, Gernika, Bordeaux, Ca Pessaro (Venise), Malabo(Guinee), Provincial (Ciudad Real), Garcia Lorca ( Fuentevaqueros, Granada), Menuhin Foundation, European Parliament, Senado (Madrid), Casa Museu Fernando Pessoa (Lisboa), Museu da Cidade ( Lisboa), Universidad Carlos III (Madrid), Fundación Príncipe de Asturias, Jordan Royal Palace, British Red Cross, UNESCO (Paris), Universidade de Dili (Timor), Veranneman Stichting (Bélgica), Teatro de la Fenice ( Venezia), Isla Negra (Chile), Musée Garnier (Opéra de Paris), Fondazione Levi Montalcini, Cátedra Cortázar (Guadalajara, México)

Private Collections Paris, Venise, Brussels, Antwerp, London, Strasbourg, Milan, Los Ángeles, Boston, Quito, La Paz, Madrid, Barcelona, Santander, Mallorca, México, New York, Lisbon, Tokio, Copenhague,

Member of the Board of Fundación Yehudi Menuhin España
Member of Scientific Committee of “Istituto Internazionale per l'Opera e la Poesia di Verona “UNESCO.
Lecturer of “La Mirada, las miradas”, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 2005
Légion d’Honneur de la République Française 2008