Marcela Jardón
About
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I live and work in Barcelona since 2000, where I have my studio and my own gallery.
My work has been exhibited and published in America, Europe and Asia. Institutions such as the University of Valencia, the Buenos Aires Museum of Fine Arts, the Sydney Opera House, Australia, the Kanazawa Citizen Art Center, Japan, the Museum University of Alicante, the Bangkok Regional Office of The Rockefeller Foundation, Thailand, The Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, the Department of Artistic Expressions of the University of Panama, the Argentine Social Museum of Buenos Aires, the Provincial Museum of Quilmes in Argentina, the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, the Museum and Historical Archive Cabildo of Montevideo in Uruguay, the Center of Art Santa Monica of Barcelona, Reial Cercle Artístic of Barcelona, and in diverse galleries. Some of them already belong to private and public collections of Argentina, Spain, Portugal, Canada, Panama, Ecuador, Uruguay, Australia, Italy, Germany, France, UK, China, Japan, Sweden, USA, Mexico, The Netherlands and Belgium.
1988 Bachelor of Visual Arts. National Professor of Visual Arts, National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón, Buenos Aires.
HONOURS
2004 • Primer Premio Concurso Audiovisual Azulazul, Barcelona. • Finalista en Canariasmediafest04 2002 • Finalista en Canariasmediafest 02. 2001 • Finalista para los Descubrimientos de Photoespaña 01 • Tercer Premio Convocatoria Fotográfica "mirar i veure" Universidad de Valencia.
2000 • Accésit Concurso Fotográfico "Festa Major de Gracia 2000"c. llibertat, Barcelona.
1995 • Mención Salón Pequeño Formato Galería Neumann & Asoc. ,Bs As. 1993 • Primer Premio Salón Apertura S.A.A.P. (Sociedad Argentina de Artistas Plásticos), Buenos Aires.
1992 • Primer Premio VII Salón la Actualidad en el Arte, Buenos Aires.. • Segundo Premio IX Salón de Artistas Plásticos Municipalidad de San Isidro, Buenos Aires. • Primer Premio II Salón de Almagro, Buenos Aires.
1991 • Tercer Premio IV Salón Arte Joven, Municipalidad de San Isidro. • Segundo Premio VIII Salón Anual de Artistas Plásticos, Municipalidad de San Isidro, Buenos Aires.
1990 • Primer Premio III Salón de Arte Joven, Municipalidad de San Isidro.
WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
• Catalog of the Department of Fine Arts and Cartography of the National Library of Spain. • Specialized Library in Contemporary Photography of the Forvm Foundation for Photography, in Tarragona • AICOA • Art Fund of the University of Valencia. • University Pinacoteca, University of Panama, Panama • Procreation-Postcreation. Womanifesto2003. Bangkok Regional Office, The Rockefeller Foundation, Thailand. • The University of the West of England, Department of Creative Arts. Center for Fine Print Research, Bristol.
complete bio in www.marcelajardon.net