MARIA CRISTINA CARBONELL
SELECTED WORKS

Graduated in 1987 from The Fashion Institute of Tecnology, New York where she also studies drawing at the Art Student League (1985/87). Between 1982 and 1984 studies drawing at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Microbiology at Pine Manor College in Boston. From 1988 she works as an appreticeship in marble at the Cemetery del Sur, Caracas, Venezuela.
In 1998 works marble sculpture in Carrara, Italy.

From 1989 exhibits in galleries and museums, some of which:

2007  Solo exhibition, La Cuadra Galery, caracas

2006  63 Biennial Arturo Michelena, Valencia, Venezuela.
DiVA New York, Douze & Mille Gallery (Selected Artist in DiVA Container 2006).
Perfect Timing, DiVA Taipei, Douze & Mille Gallery.
Itinerantes, Museum Jacobo Borges, Caracas, Venezuela.

2004  Retomando el Volumen, Museum of Modern Art Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela.
V Biennial Barro of America, Museum of Contemporary Art Lía Bermúdez, Maracaibo.

2003  50va Biennial of Venice, Art advicer for the audiovisual venezuelan proyect Tacagua, Venice, Italy.
Arte Venezolano Siglo XX. Década de los 90, Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas.

2002  Miami Art Fair, USA.

2001  IV Biennial of Barro de América, Museum of Modern Art Alejandro Otero.
III Caribean Biennial, Sto. Domingo.

2000  X Premio Mendoza, Sala Mendoza, Caracas.

1998  III Biennial of Barro de América, Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas.

1997  El Norte del Sur: Venezuela Contemporary Art Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
V Guayana Biennial, Museum of Modern Art Jesús Soto, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela.
Así Está La Cosa: Instalación y Arte Objeto en América Latina, Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporáneo A.C., México.

1996  249 Projets pour Uni Dufour, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Genève, Switzerland I Landscape Biennial, Maracay Museum of Contemporary Art, Venezuela.

1994  IV Guayana Biennial, Museum of Modern Art Jesús Soto, Ciudad Bolívar. VII Premio Mendoza, Sala Mendoza, Caracas.

1991  I Puerto la Cruz Biennial, Mario Abreu Museum of Art, Maracay

AWARDS:

2006  First Prize, 63 Biennial Arturo Michelena

Selected artist for Diva Container N.Y. with the video The art of dealing

1997  Award winning Photography, V Guayana Biennial

1996  First Prize, I Landscape Biennia

Award winning Sculpture, IV Guayana Biennial

1994  Award winning Instalation, VII Premio Mendoza

1991  Award winning Sculpture, I Puerto La Cruz Biennial