Paula Cobo Guevara
Born 1982, Santiago de Chile. Lives and works in San Francisco
Education
Currently Candidate for Master in Fine Arts and MA in History and Theory of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Art Institute, CA, US
2001-2004 B.A in Visual Arts. Uniacc University. Santiago, CL
Grants, Awards, Scholarships
2010-2012 Scholarship "Grant Chile", Scholarship and Living Grant for MFA at San Francisco Art Institute.
2009 Grant The Danish Arts Council, Denmark
2008 Grant Pro-Chile, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chilean Government, CL
2008 Grant DIRAC Fund, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chilean Government, CL
2004 Award Third Price of Experimental Video Art, Animal Gallery, CL
2003 Award Second Price of Experimental Video Art, Animal Gallery, CL
2002 Award Second Price of Experimental Video Art, Animal Gallery, CL
Residence
2010 Fountainhead Residency, Miami. FL. US (Forthcoming)
2009 DIVA -Artist-in-Residence Program, DK
Projects
(2006-2008) Traschi Gallery In 2006 she initiated and run the gallery project: Traschi Gallery (2006-2008), which was platform for the development of the artistic practice in Santiago, the gallery activities ranged from curatorial practice, artistic collaboration with galleries / artists as well as participation in art fairs internationally, also offering a residency program for artists as well as curators. Traschi Gallery projects often worked as interdisciplinary productions, where the role of artist /gallerist /editor often mixed allowing to rhizomize the cultural production. (click here for more info)
Solo exhibitions
2009 After 1973 with Luis Guerra. Charlotte Fogh Contemporary, Århus, Denmark
The worst thing in the world is to make judgments. What I always try to do is to eliminate, as much as possible, the time span between thinking and doing. The ideal is to think and to do at the same second with Luis Guerra, Sala SAM Santiago, Chile
2008 Untitled, Eye Witness Projects, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Group exhibitions
2010 Untitled (Presence as an Absence), Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, US (Forthcoming)
2008 "LISTE 08 The Young Art Fair", Basel, Switzerland
"Felicidad", Galería Polinesia, Sao Pablo, Brazil
2007 "Arte BA", Buenos Aires. Argentina
2006 "Periférica 06", Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires. Argentina
"Inoxidable", Galería Braga Menedez, Bs As, Argentina
2005 "Fashion Emergency", Galería Normal, Santiago, CL
2004 "Tercer Concurso Video Arte", Animal Gallery Stgo, CL
"Arte Off", Hoyts Cinema, Stgo, CL
2003 "Segundo Concurso Video Arte", Animal Gallery, Stgo, CL
"Tutorías Ex-Fábrica", Stgo, CL
2002 "El arte que te espía + Plus", Tomás Andreu Gallery, Stgo, CL
Lectures and other activities
2010 Lecture: "The Worst Thing in the World", Lecture at Chilean-American Institute of Culture, Santiago of Chile
2009 Lecture: "Latin American Art Today", at The Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark DJK / DET JYSKE KUNSTAKADEMI og
SPLAB / SPECIALLABORATORIUM FOR KUNST OG OFFENTLIGHED præsenterer, Denmark.
2008 Panel discussion: "New Gallerism, New Collectionism". UNIACC University Research Center with Justo Pastor Mellado, Pabla Ugarte, Paula Cobo, Florencia Lowenthal and Arte Espacio. Santiago de Chile