She was born in Madrid. In 1949 she moved to Collado Villalba, Madrid, where she has lived since then. In 1960 and for a period of seven years she studied at Jos Gutirrez Valle's atelier of the Sevillian School. She is, so that, an atelier painter. Later on she continued her painting studies at the Circle of Fine Arts in Madrid where she attended several courses of modern art. In the 80's she visited and studied art in Paris, London, Rome and Venice, going deeply into the techniques already learnt in Madrid. After several exhibitions of lesser importance, in 1987 her works were exhibited at the Sammer Gallery in London and subsequently in Madrid, El Escorial, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Zaragoza, etc. She was also present at national and international Art Fairs in Washington, Chicago, Santander (Spain), Valencia (Spain), Miami, etc.
In 1987 she was awarded the First Prize for Foreign Painting (ex aequo) at the XXIX International Contest "Grolla d'Oro de Treviso", Venice and in 1989 she obtained the First Prize at the VI Contest of the Gallery Durn Painting Prize. Some of her works are exhibited at the following museums: Muse Quentovic (Le Touquet, France), National Museum of Fine Arts (La Valletta, Malta), Cathedral Museum (Medina, Malta), Museo Bayo (Puerto de Santa Mara, Cdiz - Spain), Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid, Spain) y Museo de Dibujo "Castillo de Larrs" (Huesca, Spain).
Art critics such as Santiago Amn, Francisco Prados de la Plaza, Francoise Tempra, Jos Prez Guerra, Carlos Garca Osuna, Santos Torroella, Javier Rubio, Mario Antoln, M. L. Camboy, Toms Paredes, Antonio Morales, Julia Senz-Angulo, Rafael Perell-Paradelo, Agustn Romo, J. Marcaro Pasarius, Hctor Lpez, ngel Azpeitia, Antonio Lisboa y David Amor, among others have written about her works. This Madrilenian painter is considered by critics one of the best realistic painters at present, being the human body one of her favourite themes especially woman's nude wrapped in paper and cloth which gives her work some magic and mistery.

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

1985 .- Galera Floridablanca . San Lorenzo de El Escorial. Madrid (Spain).
1987 .- Sammer Gallery. London (England).
1988 .- Galera Mellado. San Lorenzo de El Escorial. Madrid (Spain).
1990 .- Galera Durn. Madrid. (Spain).
1991 .- Galera Royal Art. Palma de Mallorca (Spain).
1991 .- Galera Caja Jaln. Zaragoza (Spain).
1992 .- Galera Mellado. San Lorenzo de El Escorial. Madrid (Spain)
1993 .- Galera Jaime III. Palma de Mallorca (Spain).
1996 .- Sala Imagen. Sevilla (Spain). Restrospective 1985-1996.
1996 .- Casa de Cultura de Collado Villalba. Madrid (Spain).
1996 .- Galera de Arte Granero. Brussels (Belgium).
1997 .- Galera Vieleers. Amsterdam (Holland).
1997 .- Galera D'Art Foz. Sitges. Barcelona (Spain).
1997 .- Albert Gallery. Pozuelo de Alarcn. Madrid (Spain).
1999 .- Galera Vieleers. Amsterdam (Holland).
1999 .- Galera Crculo XII. Sta. Cruz de Tenerife (Spain).
1999 .- Galera D'Art Foz. Sitges. Barcelona (Spain).
2000 .- Albert Gallery. Madrid (Spain).
2002 .- Casa de Cultura de Torrelodones. Madrid (Spain).
2003 .- Casa de Cultura de Collado Villalba. Madrid (Spain).
2005 .- Galeria de Arte MAR. Barcelona (Spain).
2005 .- Galera de Arte Aitor Urdangarn. Vitoria (Spain).
2006 .- Galera de Arte Van Gogh. Granada (Espaa).
2006 .- Galera d`Art Terra Ferma . Lleida (Espaa).

PRIZES

1987 .- First Prize for Foreign Painting (ex-aequo) at the XXIX International Contest "Grolla d'Oro de Treviso". Venice (Italy).
1989 .- First Prize at the VI Durn Painting Contest. Madrid (Spain).
1996 .- Prize Germinal for Fine Arts, Sierra de Madrid. Madrid (Spain).

PAINTINGS IN MUSEUMS

Musee Quentovic. Le Touquet (France).
National Museum of Fine Arts. La Valette (Malta).
Cathedral Museum. Medina (Malta).
Museo Bayo. Puerto de Santa Mara. Cdiz (Spain).
Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Madrid (Spain).
Museo de Dibujo "Castillo de Larrs". Huesca (Spain).
Joo Mario Alenquer. Lisboa (Portugal).

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Soledad Fernandez