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Delfina Bernal
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Delfina Bernal  (November 14, 1941, Barranquilla, Colombia) is a Colombian painter, multimedia artist, and teacher.

Life:
Delfina Bernal graduated from at Escuela de las Bellas Artes in Barranquilla Colombia. She studied with the institutes director Alejandro Obregón and the teachers Marie Claire de Andreis, Freda Sargent de Obregón, and María Luisa Andino de Lopez. She studied engraving with Ben Bianchi at Parsons School of Design in the 1970. She continues to learn new technologies to create her art pieces.

She won the following prizes in Colombia: She was a founding member in 1973 of “Groupo 44”, along with Álvaro Herazo, Eduardo Hernandez, Victor Sanchez, Fernando Cepeda, Jairo Quintero and Christiane Lesueur.
 * First Intercol Salon of Young Artists of 1964, she won third prize.
 * Colombia Esso Salon, Second Honorable Mention

She has had two periods of her work and life in the United States. They first 1968 to 1973 in New York City, the second 1981 to current in San Francisco California.

Her work will be in the Hammer Museum exhibit: Mujeres Radicales

She continues to work in several mediums including painting, etchings, collage, digital prints and photography.