Karina Llergo

Karina Llergo was born and raised in Mexico City where she received her Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design as well as advanced degrees in Multimedia, Animation, and Abstract Art. She studied with famed Mexican artist Roberto Cortazar and portraitist Enrique Estrada, who both saw her talent and strongly encouraged her to continue her artistic journey.

While keeping art at the forefront of her mind and heart, Karina enjoyed a highly successful corporate career as art director for Mexico City’s top newspaper “Reforma” and at illustrious advertising agency, McCann Erickson. Among the many campaigns she helped create, some of her most memorable were for clients such as Coca-Cola, Revlon and Kimberly Clark.

Throughout her professional life, Karina painted and worked tirelessly to develop her unique style. As a lifelong dancer, competitive swimmer and avid skydiver, she found herself drawn to depicting on canvas the palpable energy of the human body in motion. Driven by these fascinations and armed with her talent for figurative painting , Karina found a way to translate her observations and creative imagination into thought-provoking paintings of breathtaking beauty.

Since moving to Chicago in 2007 and transitioning ...

2006    Iberoamericana Univerity, Mexico City, Postgraduate Diploma in Abstract Art

1995    Sinclair College, Dayton, Postgraduate Diploma in Animation

1994    Iberoamericana University, Mexico City, Postgraduate Diploma in Multimedia

1993    Anahuac del Sur University, Mexico City, Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design

Museum Exhibitions

2012 - 8th Annual Global Latino Fest, Museum of Broadcast Communications, Chicago IL


One Person Exhibitions
2014 - Village Hall, Northbrook, IL
2014 - Studio Show, Northbrook, IL (also 2013, 2012)

Group Exhibitions
2017 - Artist in residence, Northbrook Library, IL
2016 - Art Comes Alive ACA show, ADC’s Gallery in the Sky, Cincinnati, OH 
2015 - 12th annual Originals Juried Art Exhibit, Northbrook Library, IL
2014 - 11th annual Originals Juried Art Exhibit, Northbrook Library, IL

2013 - Hispanic Heritage Global Latino Fest, Germania Palace, Chicago, IL
2012 - Life Dance, Gallery G, Glencoe, IL
Face to face, Boocoo Cultural Center, Evanston, IL
2008 - Las Guadalupanas, Scalenus Gallery, Mexico City 
            Quatro, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City
2007 - Emartea VIII, Ataranzas Cultural Center, Veracruz, MX
           
Milleret, Colegio Asunción, Mexico City
2006 - Woman in Art, Colegio de las Vizcainas, Mexico City


Juried Art Fest Exhibitions
2016 27th Downtown Delray Beach Festival of the arts, Delray Beach, FL
Palm Beach Medical Center Art Fest by the Sea, Juno Beach, FL
Art Fair at Laumeire Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, MO
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