Alonsa Guevara is a Chilean artist whose work explores the complexity of nature, blending South American visuals with the manic NY City.
Alonsa was born in Rancagua, Chile. She spent first seven years of her life in the middle of the Ecuadorian tropical forest. Surrounded by that magnificent environment, Guevara developed a strong fascination by the light, nature and colors.
Alonsa Guevara earned her BFA at the Pontific Catholic University of Chile. Her next step was to move to New York where she received a MFA at the New York Academy of Art. During her studies, she was awarded with the Terra Foundation Residency in Giverny, France, the Michele and Timothy Barakett Scholarship, as well as the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant. In 2015, Alonsa was even granted the Academy’s Fellowship award.
This artist works primarily with oil paint to evoke one world originating somewhere between fantastical and believable. All of her paintings are full of meticulously crafted details which all have only one aim: to illustrate her obsession with realism and mimesis.
These lush paintings scrutinize the concept of beauty, and abundance. But above all, Alonsa continuously explores the concept of a strong desire. By using familiar object like fruit, for example, or flowers and insects she creates still life artworks full of fantasy. Alonsa also processes themes like trompe l’oeil, magical worlds, female archetypes, eroticism and even death.
Guevara admires artists such as Christian Rex Van Minnen, Julie Heffernan, Luis Meléndez, Frans Snyders and John Singer Sargent. She has participated in more than 30 individual and group exhibitions and was recently named one of Time Out New York’s five most important new artists.
This artist is represented by Anna Zorina Gallery from new York, where she held an exhibition titled Three Women (2015), together with Nadine Faraj and Patty Horing.
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Year | Exhibition Title | Museum/Gallery | Solo/Group |
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2015 | Take Home a Nude | Sotheby’s, Manhattan, NY, USA | Group |
2015 | Three Women | Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY, USA | Group |
2015 | Fellows 2015 | Mark Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA | Group |
2015 | 9th Annual Summer Exhibition | Flowers Gallery, New York, NY, USA | Group |
2015 | Small Works | National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, USA | Group |
2015 | NEW WORK NEW YORK | Williamsburg, NY, USA | Group |
2015 | Art to the Avenue | Greenwich, CT, USA | Group |
2015 | Tribeca Ball 2015 | New York Academy of Art,Manhattan, NY, USA | Group |
2015 | Protinus | Dacia Gallery, New York, NY, USA | Group |
2015 | Deck the Walls | New York Academy of Art, Manhattan, NY, USA | Group |
2015 | Take Home a Nude | Sotheby’s, New York, NY,USA | Group |
2015 | MFA Thesis Show | New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, USA | Group |
2015 | Hudson Rising Launch Event | 201 Mulberry St, New York, NY, USA | Group |
2015 | Giverny | New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, USA | Group |
2015 | Tribeca Ball 2014 | New York Academy of Art, Manhattan, NY, USA | Group |
2014 | Paper Girls | Muchmore’s, Williamsburg, NY, USA | Solo |
2014 | Over Skin | GunMetal Ink, Bridgeport, CT, USA | Solo |
2013 | FUGITIVAS | Expressiones Cultural Center,New London, CT, USA | Solo |
2013 | Take Home a Nude | Sotheby’s, New York, NY, USA | Group |
2013 | Deck the Walls | New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, USA | Group |
2013 | Mini Mountains & Spaces | New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, USA | Group |
2013 | Single Fair | RH Gallery, New York,NY, USA | Group |
2013 | Tribeca Ball 2013 | New York Academy of Art, Manhattan, NY, USA | Group |
2012 | My Hero Gala by AID FOR AIDS International | 10 Debroses St, New York, NY, USA | Group |
2012 | Deck the Walls & Heads | New York Academy of Art, New York, NY,USA | Group |
2012 | Latintempo | Visual Art Sur private exhibition,Greenwich, CT, USA | Solo |
2012 | Visual Passport | The Ferguson Library, Stamford, CT, USA | Group |
2011 | FEAST | The Ferguson Library, Stamford, CT, USA | Group |
2011 | Deck the Halls | Harbour Towers, New London, CT, USA | Group |
2011 | Night of Art: cultural and charity event | Hyatt Hotel, Santiago,Chile | Group |
2011 | Art in the table | Lilies Golf Club, Rancagua, Chile | Group |
2010 | Bicentennial Contest of Rengo | Rengo, Chile | Group |
2010 | Where There's Smoke | Museum Casa Colorada Santiago, Santiago Chile | Group |
2010 | The Wine´s Environment | Las Niñas Vineyard, Santa Cruz, Chile | Solo |
2009 | Women's Imprint | Cultural Center of La Reina: Casona Nemesio Antunez | Solo |
2009 | The Culture Begins at Home | Lirios Golf Club, Rancagua, Chile | Solo |
2009 | Night of Art, cultural and charity event | Sheraton Hotel, Santiago, Chile | Group |
2009 | Lilies | Lilies Golf Club, Rancagua, Chile | Group |
2008 | Mouse’s Head: Young Art Contest III | Museum of Visual Arts, Santiago, Chile | Group |
2008 | Live Art | Museum of Fine Arts,Santiago de Chile | Group |
2008 | Second Hand | Chacras de Coria Museum, Mendoza,Argentina | Group |
2008 | Night of Art: cultural and charity event | Hotel Sheraton, Santiago de Chile | Group |
2008 | Labyrinths of Love and Eroticism | Cultural Center of La Reina, Santiago de Chile | Group |
2008 | Perspectives on the Canvas | Ana Cortés Studio, UMCE, Santiago de Chile | Group |
2007 | 4+ ii | Regional Museum of Rancagua, Rancagua, Chile | Group |
2006 | Open School | Pontificia Universidad Católida de Chile, Santiago,Chile | Group |
2003 | Sewell World Heritage | Regional Museum of Rancagua, Rancagua, Chile | Group |