Teresa Caro Ottens

Canadian-Argentinean photographer, painter, sculptress, multimedia, videographer and cultural producer, who uses photography as an important communication tool. In December 2022 she received a certificate of artistic achievement, awarded by the Luxembourg Pinacoteque, and the Museums selection committee. Her exhibitions have been displayed both in Canada and internationally. Her work intends to show her true passions. People, children, horses, boats, flowers, landscapes, or whatever speaks to her, where a new level of consciousness emerges. It is intended to reveal and share aspects of her daily routine, which depict fragments of the artist' s history, projecting a universal language.This body of work is in constant progress and transformation.

A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, Visual Arts program. After graduating from the four year visual arts program , she did an additional year, at OCAD’ s Florence campus in Italy: Art History, Drawing and Painting.

“The world around me”, is her latest exhibit, presented at Oakville’ s Community and Cultural Centre, QEPCCC. May - September, 2024. A continuation of these concepts will be reveled at the Cultural' s Centre Main Gallery, March 2025.

Others Exhibits: “Protect Your Heart“,“The Tango series”, “ De Norte a Sur”, (From North to South), “Intimacies”, “Oceans of Turquoise”, “Homage to the Group of Seven”.

A new series of photographs will be presented at the main gallery of the QEPCCC, 2303 Bridge Rd, in March 2025. She is also working on a series of multimedia works. These pieces include photography, drawings, paintings, sculptures and videos. Mateca was responsible for the direction of the Visual Arts section of the Cultural Celebration of Spanish as a language (CCEI), the curatorial of the Colombian travelling exhibition of the United Nations in Canada, and several group exhibitions at Harbourfront- Centre, where she produced and directed the work: “Cono Sur”, (South Cone). A large ceramic mural that is now part of the collection of Toronto’s City Hall art archives. In recent years she participated in the ‘What did you bring’ collective exhibition at the Hittite Gallery in Yorkville, and York University. She presented works from her...