Catalogue Chamos Art Gala
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34 <strong>Art</strong>ists<br />
Lucía<br />
Pizzani<br />
Pizzani was born in<br />
Caracas, Venezuela, where<br />
studied Communications<br />
(Audiovisual) at the<br />
Universidad Católica Andrés<br />
Bello. She has a Diploma<br />
in Conservation Biology<br />
from Columbia University<br />
and an MA from Chelsea<br />
College of <strong>Art</strong>s in London.<br />
Pizzani has received several<br />
awards, including: Hotshoe/<br />
Photofusion Magazine 2014,<br />
Award to Best Emerging<br />
<strong>Art</strong>ist from the AICA-<br />
Venezuela Asociación<br />
Internacional de Críticos de<br />
<strong>Art</strong>e, 2013, First Prize in the<br />
XII Premio Eugenio Mendoza<br />
2013, and Second Prize in the<br />
IX Salón CANTV de Jóvenes<br />
<strong>Art</strong>istas FIA 2006.<br />
Daniela<br />
Quilici<br />
Quilici was born in Paris,<br />
France in 1982. She spent<br />
her childhood and part of<br />
her youth in Venezuela. She<br />
returned to Paris in 1999 and<br />
studied graphic design at<br />
Sornas and Creapole. In 2000<br />
she travelled to Morocco as<br />
an assistant photographer.<br />
She obtained her Masters<br />
from the Fine <strong>Art</strong>s’s School<br />
in Paris 2006. At that time<br />
she made her second solo<br />
exhibition. She obtained<br />
her degree in sculpture and<br />
drawing from the Fine <strong>Art</strong>s<br />
National School (2009). In<br />
2013 part of her work enters<br />
in the collection of the<br />
Cabinet of Prints drawing of<br />
Valencia, Venezuela. Daniela<br />
has exhibited in different<br />
cities such as Buenos Aires,<br />
Caracas, London and Paris.<br />
Manuel<br />
Quintana<br />
Castillo<br />
Manuel Quintana Castillo<br />
was a Venezuelan painter<br />
(1928‐2016). He studied art<br />
at the Escuela de <strong>Art</strong>es<br />
Plásticas in Caracas. Since<br />
then he developed into<br />
one of the greatest artists<br />
in the history of Venezuela.<br />
He taught at the Escuela de<br />
<strong>Art</strong>es Plásticas, as well as in<br />
the School of Architecture<br />
and Urbanism of the UCV. He<br />
received numerous awards<br />
during his life, including the<br />
National Award of Visual <strong>Art</strong>s<br />
(1973), the <strong>Art</strong>uro Michelena<br />
Award (1978), the Armando<br />
Reverón Award by the<br />
Venezuelan Association of<br />
Visual <strong>Art</strong>ists (1996).<br />
Iván<br />
Rojas<br />
Rojas was born in Venezuela<br />
in 1965. He has studied art,<br />
drawing, painting, design<br />
and sculpture in Venezuela<br />
and Mexico. He graduated<br />
in Graphic Design in 1990<br />
from the Instituto de Diseño<br />
de Caracas, Venezuela.<br />
Rojas has developed wide<br />
experience during the last<br />
two decades, during which<br />
he has had numerous<br />
exhibits in Venezuela,<br />
Mexico, USA, Cuba, Spain,<br />
England, Switzerland, and<br />
Dominican Republic. His<br />
work forms part of private<br />
collections around the world<br />
as well as important public<br />
collections, such as: Museo<br />
de <strong>Art</strong>e Contemporáneo de<br />
Caracas Sofía Imber, Museo<br />
de <strong>Art</strong>e Coro, Museo Mario<br />
Abreu, Museo Francisco<br />
Narváez, Museo Nueva<br />
Cádiz, and Museo de <strong>Art</strong>e<br />
Latinoamericano de Los<br />
Angeles.