Claudia Collao

Painting for me has always been a non-verbal language that I do not always know clearly what I want to communicate, but I have always felt the urgent need to do so. My process when working is alone and daily, nourishing myself with my own imagination, which allows me not to subordinate myself to a single form, I like to invent new images and scenarios, my own experiences or those of others give me ideas, I always face the canvas in white with no project in mind other than to continue, stain and thought merge into one, I have no planned answers, the path is full of multiple changes of direction, many hours of contemplation, decisions and actions, I limit myself to suggesting and not forcing an objective, guided by instinct in the first place but always trying to find the perfect fit between the solution and the intention, a search that I also try to achieve through emotional sincerity, color channels emotion, I think of colors and the drawing contains while providing different readings, I like to take the viewer's eyes from one place to another on the canvas without discovering everything immediately. My painting deliberately proposes a state of tension between the visceral and the mechanical and juxtaposes the industrial with the h...

Trained at the Art School of the University of
Chile has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Painting.

2023.-EXHIBITION OF 50 GUITARS ON STAGE, participation in the call for APECH and Autoconvovados Artists, "Memorial tribute to Victor Jara and Litre Quiroga" memorial site and "1000 guitars for a thousand voices by Victor Jara" Municipality of Recoleta.

2023.-FESTIVAL ACTIVA, multidisciplinary art festival, Condominio Mirador Activa/La Florida

2023.-DIALOGOS FEMENINOS, collective MUA Internacional- Centro Cultural Espacio Matta-La Granja

2023.-COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION "Art for Memory, Dreams and Freedom", in collaboration with the Association of Painters and Sculptors of Chile (APECH) and the support of the Ministry of Arts and Heritage. Guillermo Núñez Art Gallery/House of Culture Anselmo Cádiz Illustrious Municipality of the Forest

2023.-IV MEETING OF WOMEN VISUAL ARTISTS, international exhibition "Logs of a Matrix"-Galería Arte Cava Palacio Cousiño Santiago.

2022.-AW22/ART WEEK CHILE version 2022 international art fair, Centro Cultural Santa Rosa de Apoquindo, Comuna de Las Condes.

2022.- V CALL "3D GALLERY MUNDOARTI" individual exhibition

2022.- III MEETING OF WOMEN ARTISTS, international exhibition "Intimate Borders" -Cava Gallery of the Cousiño Palace Museum. Santiago

2022.- INTIMATE BORDERS/Itinerant- Pablo Neruda Libra...