Carolina Larrea

Vice-President 2015-2017 of IAPMA (International Association of Papermakers and Paper Artists) and a member of The Friend of Dard Hunter (American Contemporary Papermaking). Assistant Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. From 1994 at the present, she has focused her artwork on handmade paper, addressing it as a substrate for her art work and as an art itself. During 2005 she worked under tutorship of professor and research scientist Timothy Barrett at The University of Iowa Center for the Book, where she learned traditional japanese and european papermaking, history and technique. Troughout this research she has visited several papermills and workshops, like San Miguel de Allende in Mexico (1994), Old Delhi (2004) and Pondicherry (2009) in India, Zaandijk in The Netherlands, Val d'Isere in France (both in 2003), Buenos Aires in Argentina (2005) and the main washi studios in Ogawamachi and Imadate, Japan (2007) and Molí Paperer of Capellades, Barcelona, Spain (2011) and Eskulan Papermill at Zuzurkil, Spain (2012)
Since 1992, she's been teaching at the printmaking department of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile School of Arts. and from 2002 to the present, she teaches Hand Papermaki...

PhD © Art & research. Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain.
MA in Artistic Production. Universitat Politècnica de Vallència, Spain
Visitor Scholar, The University of Iowa Center for the Book, Iowa City, USA.
Bachelor in Fine Arts, major in Printmaking. P. Universidad Católica de Chile.

2013 cARTálogo Bicentenario.
Artists book exhibition for the bicentennial of National Library of Chile.

2013 AMATERAS ANNUAL MINI PAPER ART EXHIBITION
Amateras Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria.

2013 THE ART AND SOUL OF PAPER
The Gallery, Norwich University of Art, St. George Street, Norwich, England.

2013 FASZINATION PAPIER en el marco de la exposición: " De posavasos de cartón y bolsas de té - historia de la fabricación de papel en el valle de Murg "
Unimogmuseum, Gaggenau, Alemania

2012 IMAGEN DE ARCHIVO, Galería Artium, Santiago, Chile.

2012 COLOSSAL PAPER, The Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory, Cleveland, Estados Unidos.

2012 ARS MEMORANDI. Homenaje a Pedro Millar. Galería Caballo Verde, Concepción, Chile.

2012 MASQUELIBROS. (Libro TipoGráfico-UPV)
1era Feria de Libros de Artista. Centro Asociado de la UNED, Madrid. España.

2012 FASZINATION PAPIER (touring exhibition)
16. March - 22. April , Pflegschloss Schrobenhausen, Alemania.
28. April - 20 May , Biennale des Arts du Papier,
Chapelle of the Condamine Garde Le Vigan, Francia.
02. July - 26. Aug. Schleusenhaus Stade, Alemania.
19.Sept. - 19. Oct. Confederation of European Paper Industries, Brussels, Bélgica.

2011 WONJU HANJI FES...