Lucia Bonfiglio

Italian - Uruguayan nationality. Started Learning art and making exhibtions since shw was a child. Bachelor of Communication Sciences. Master iin Graphic Arts. Lived in Spain and in Uruguay,

The combination of living in different cultures and working in advertising, graphic design and Arts, shows in her paintings a personal language, a mixture of cultures, with elements of real life, imagination, symbolic, abstract shapes and colours, and always telling something that it is wanted to be told. The concept is what guides the work.

Her oil paintings generally concerns about humanity. She has been interacting with the World Bank´s Uruguayan office since 2014, doing exhibitions with World Bank endorsement at Ralli Museum and also illustrating some of the World Bank publications. She has also exhibited her oil paintings with UNESCO in Argentina. In Spain, she made an exhibition called “Coexistence”, at the Politécnica University. Her art was taken to the International Art fair in Paris and to Madrid. In 2019 she exhibited her oil paintings and hand painted dresses (also designed by Bonfiglio) at the Instituto Cervantes in Río de Janeiro. In 2022 again in Río de Janeiro, in “Parque das Ruinas” she made an art exhibition about taking car...

Education:

St. Catherine’s School: 1982 - 1995 . Bilingual education and International Baccalaureate.
Bachelor in Communication Sciences, ORT University. Uruguay. 1996 - 2000
Master in Graphic Arts. Politécnica University, Valencia, Spain. 2001 - 2002
Art schools: 1992 - 2009
Cinema and theatre schools, Actor studio: 1994 - today (Actor School, Off School Spain, "Escuela de Cine del Uruguay", "Escuela Horas Camara ", Gabriel Pérez Actor Studio)
Writing schools: Writer Napoleón Baccino studio, writer and literacy referent Rodolfo Fatorusso.
Model at Valentino Bookings Model Agency.

2019 - Permanent exhibition all around the world, in the five continents.
2019 - Permanent exhibition at the Uruguayan Embassy in Belgium.
2019 - Permanent exhibition at the Uruguayan Consulate in San Pablo, Brasil.
2019 - Permanent exhibition at the Uruguayan Embassy in China.
2019 - Permanent exhibition at the Uruguayan Embassy in Sudafrica.
2019 - Permanent exhibition at the Uruguayan Embassy in Australia
2019 - Permanent exhibition at the Uruguayan Embassy in Colombia
2019 - Permanent exhibition at the Uruguayan Embassy in México
2019 - Permanent exhibition at the Uruguayan Embassy in Portugal
2019 - Permanent exhibition at the Uruguayan Embassy in Germany, Berlin.
2019 - Permanent exhibition at the Uruguayan Embassy in France, Paris.
2019 - Permanent exhibition at the Uruguayan Embassy in Japan, Tokyo.
2019 - Permanent exhibition at the Consulate General of Uruguay in Milan, Italy.
2019 - World Bank’s book cover with one of Bonfiglio ‘s Oil paintings.
2019 - Art Exhibition at Madrid Art Gallery, Spain.
2019 - Solo Art Exhibition with Bonfiglio’s paintings at the Interior Designers Foundation. Uruguay.
2019 - International Artfair in Paris. France.
2019 - Art Auction with Bonfiglio’s oil pantings in José Ignacio, Maldonado, Uru...