Biography
Patricia Claro was born in Santiago, Chile (1960). She studied Visual Arts (2006) and Design (1983), both at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She is conducting a visual investigation on the theme of landscape and water as the infinite source of images. Her personal interpretation of this scenario in movement is the result of a rigorous experimental study of the dual quality of water and its reflections. The work captures the randomness of nature through the development of pictorial sequences, videos, photographs, installations and interventions on terrain that manipulate the concept of time. The landscape theme is related to a rigorous study of water and its characteristics.
She has received the grant Fondart 07, from the government of Chile, for the project “Final Landscape” which is about pictorial restoration of Patagonia. She has also won the Academic Excellence Award in both majors of Visual Arts and Design
in Universidad Católica de Chile. She has participated in IV BIENAL DEL FIN DEL MUNDO, ”CONTRASTES Y UTUPÍAS” (2015) in Valparaíso, Chile, curated Massimo Scaringella and II BIENAL DEL FIN DEL MUNDO, “INTEMPERIE” (2009) in Ushuaia, Argentina, curated by Alfons Hug. Selected for “FRESH PAINT” Project (2012), book edited by curator Selene Wendt, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway, that includes artists as Wangechi Mutu, Kehinde Wiley, Elizabeth Peyton among others. Selected by Art Critics Organization, AICA, for exhibition DOCE X DOCE (2009), twelve selected artists, Sala Universidad de Talca, Santiago, Chile. Professor, School of Arts, Universidad Católica de Chile, conducting painting studio and developing projects.
Actually is invited by curator Rafael Raddi to develop a visual investigation of Brazilian sources of water with solo exhibitions in museums during 2016 and 2017.
