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Biography

Emilia Azcárate was born in Caracas in 1964. She studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, from 1982 to 1986. In 2006 Azcárate was accepted to the CIFO Scholarship Program at the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami. Currently, she lives and works in Madrid, Spain. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows, selections of which include Periférico Caracas, Centro de Arte Los Galpones, Caracas (2008); and self-titled shows at Casa de América, Madrid (2004) and Sala Mendoza, Caracas (1998). Azcárate has also participated in group shows, such as CIFO: Una mirada múltiple, selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba (2012); Return, Casa de América, Madrid (2009); Notes about abstraction, Berezdivin Collection, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2008); Jump Cuts, Venezuelan Contemporary Art, Mercantil Collection, Americas Society, New York (2005); The curse rib, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain (2005); Prague I Biennial, National Gallery, Veletrzní Palác, Prague (2003); São Paulo XXV Biennial, Cities, Metropolitan Iconography, São Paulo (2002); and I Salon Pirelli of Young Artists, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber, Caracas. A selection of publications in which Azcárate has been represented include Carlos Jiménez, “Emilia Azcárate y la tradición de lo moderno”, blog El arte de husmear, January 2012; Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Fortunate Objects, selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami; Milán: Edizioni Charta, 2008; Julieta González, Rafael Castillo Zapata and Juan Carlos Ledezma, Venezuelan Contemporary Art, Caracas: Francisco Villanueva Editores, 2006; Julieta González, “(Dis)location”, in Prague I Biennial, National Gallery, Veletrzní Palác, Prague; Milán: Giancarlo Politi Editore, 2003. Azcárate’s work is been acquired by both public and private collections, including: Sayago and Pardon Collection, Los Angeles, California; Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami, Florida; Mercantil Collection, Fundación Banco Mercantil, Caracas; Banesco Collection, Fundación Banco Banesco, Caracas; Berezdivin Collection, San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, Fundación Cisneros, Caracas.