Agustina Casas Sere-Leguizamon

(b. June 23, 1984) is an international award-winning artist. Her groundbreaking digital art collection, "Ensueños Rioplatenses," was declared a "National Work" and she a "Young Iconic Artist" by the government of Uruguay, the highest artistic honor awarded by that nation (analogous to the prestigious United States National Medal of Arts). Casas was also officially declared a "Young Leader in Latin America" by the Washington, D.C.-based Inter-American Development Bank (IBD). Her work has been exhibited across the globe, including as part of the Queen of the Netherlands and Tom Freston private Art Collections. Also international companies as Google's Project for New Media in New York and in private commissions and exhibitions by Fortune 500 companies, such as Fiat (2013) and Goodyear (2014).

At age 24, Casas' paintings first debuted publicly in 2009 in Buenos Aires at the Castagnino Roldan Gallery. Shortly thereafter, and inspired by Andy Warhol and others, Casas began experimenting with digital art, first by digitally manipulating photographs of iconic historical figures and later by digitally reconstructing images of iconic sculptures. One of her earliest digital pieces, Liberty, Fraternity and Equality, a tribute to the heroes of the early 19th century Latin-American Wars of Independence, was curated by Google and included in its “Project for New Media” in New York later that same year.

Casas followed the success of "Liberty, Fraternity and Equality" in 2011 by releasing what became a widely acclaimed collection of digital work entitled "Ensueños Rioplatenses," earning her numerous national and international awards at age 27. "Ensueños Rioplatenses" was inspired by the work of Casas' great-grandfather, the famous Argentine sculptor Gonzalo Leguizamon Pondal (1890-1944). Her work, a digitally reinterpreted collection of iconic sculpture images, paid tribute to the stylistic bond that Leguizamon Pondal shared with his contemporary, the Uruguayan sculptor Jose Luiz Zorrilla de San Martin (1891–1975), both of whom in...

Awards & Art Exhibitions

2012 “Ensueños Rioplatenses” – Exhibited in the Zorrilla Museum, Montevideo, Uruguay and Santos Cultural Palace, Hall Figari, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Montevideo, Uruguay

2012 – Winner, Young Leader Award at the Annual Meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Montevideo-Uruguay

2012 – Ministry of Tourism of Uruguay declared “Ensueños Rioplatenses” a National Work

2012 – Exhibition in Fiat Stile Italia Space. Buenos Aires, Argentina.