Nicole Carvajal

Nicole Carvajal is a professional painter born in Santiago de Chile. Married and mother of 2 grown-up girls. Carvajal observes the day-to-day world, as well as the world of art-history. From both she selects images in which human, botanic and animal figures play an important role. The surrealistic South American school of painting is the second important source of inspiration for Carvajal. Now living for more than 35 years in the Netherlands, she often uses images from its rich past: Vermeer, Dou and others.

Nicole Carvajal was born in 1948, Santiago de Chile. She started (1969) her professional education at the Facultad de Bellas Artes (Universidad de Chile), where her teacher Rodolfo Opazo, introduced her to the world of Dada and Surrealism. Later in 1975 she studied at the Rietveld Academie, (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and finished her studies in 1979. Here she was a pupil of Herman Gordijn, who teached her the skills to solve the practical problems with the translation of e.g. glass, flesh or air, to the canvas.

Biennale, Florence, 2007
TM100, Gouda, solo (L’age de l’ innocence), 2008
Ars Aemula Naturae, Leiden, Wolkers
Scheltema, Leiden, Boek “Maartse buien”
Galerie Jarsbo, solo, Aarhus, Denmark, 2010
Galerie SIDAC, Leiden, Con-sequenties
Galerie Arte sin Limites, Den Haag, Vrijheid
Galerie Voor af en toe Leiden, Drawings
Galerie de Pieter, Leiden, AfbeeldenVerbeelden, 2011
Galerie Polhus, Nijkerk, Verleidingen, 2012
Sidac Studio, Leiden, Etalage tentoonstelling
Het Plantsoen Theater, Leiden, Kunstroute
Galerie de Pieter, Leiden, Strange worlds, 2013
Het Kunstbedrijf, Heemstede, Carvajal
Galerie de Pieter, Leiden, Story Telling, 2014
Galerie Het Posthuys, Texel, Flowers
Le Petit Port, Leiden, Made up memories
Maison du Chili, Paris, Petit Format