Carmen Michelena

Spanish-Venezuelan artist who, through her training as a historian, has developed a personal universe that ranges from analog collage and installation, video and photography to crypto art. Her works respond to an exercise in artistic experimentation, through which she addresses new, sometimes challenging and irreverent propositions, free from preconceived intellectual guidelines that restrict her creative freedom. Her work, both digital and analog, emerges from the mystery of everyday work and feeling, in which she expresses her own experiences, combined with her extensive professional training and work experience in the art world.

2007. PhD in American History from the University of Seville, Spain.
1989. BA in History from the Central University of Venezuela
Studied photography with Aaron Sosa, Ramón Grandal, and Hernán Villar. Caracas.
2009-2016 (jubilada). Jefe del departamento de Investigación y comisaria de exposiciones de la Galería de Arte Nacional de Venezuela. Fundación Museos Nacionales. Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Cultura. Caracas
2009. Directora de Procesos Museológicos del Museo Arturo Michelena. Fundación Museos Nacionales. Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Cultura. Caracas.
2008-2009. Directora Ejecutiva de la Fundación Centro Nacional de la Fotografía (CENAF). Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Cultura. Caracas.
1998-2007. Directora Ejecutiva de la Fundación John Boulton (Museo, archivo y biblioteca). Caracas.
1998. Directora (E) del Archivo del Libertador (declarado Memoria del Mundo por UNESCO). Dirección General Sectorial del Ceremonial y Acervo Histórico-Ministerio de Relaciones Interiores

2025 Juan Pedro Posani National Museum of Architecture in Caracas, in the solo exhibition "Tiempos trastornados. Fragmentos de Memoria Urbana"; Centro Cultural de Arte Moderno, in the group exhibition "Mujeres en el Centro." Solo exhibitions, both physical and digital, such as "Fragmentos imaginarios" in 2024 at the Rino Truant Gallery, Maracay. In 2023 "Cryptoarte" (UPEL); and "Sueños fragmentados" (Carlos Cruz Diez Museum of Design and Printmaking), also developed in the metaverse Spatial. 2024 2nd Artist Book Salon (Center of Fine Arts, Ateneo de Maracaibo) and the Cumaná Museum of Contemporary Art. Selected for the 65th Arturo Michelena Art Salon. First exhibition of the Shared City Project 20 Years. IARTES, Caracas and Maracay Opera Theater. Contemporaries. Our Skin. Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas. 9th Edition of Expo Impulses Art Metro Barcelona (Spain). National and international digital and physical group exhibitions: 2023-2024. Guest artist for the 1st virtual exhibition at Galería Musas. In 2024, at the Yila'ob Digital Cultural Center in Mexico, she participated in the following group exhibitions: Cartographies of the Body; 4th edition of the international group exhibition: Nostalgia; and the 2nd Call for the Exhibition of ...