MIA Art Collection
Dulce Pinzón was born in Mexico City in 1974. She studied Mass Media Communications at the Universidad de Las Americas in Puebla Mexico and Photography at Indiana University in Pennsylvania. In 1995 she moved to New York where she studied at The International Center of Photography.
This week in our virtual museum MIAanywhere we can find the work of Brisa Noronha, who is a Brazilian sculptor from Belo Horizonte. She currently resides in São Paulo, where she works and participates in the support group for the Hermes Artes Visuais project, led by artists Nino Cais, Marcelo Amorim and Carla Chaim.
The Peruvian artist graduated from the Toulouse Lautrec Institute of Design as a graphic designer in 1987. She continued her studies in New York and Rode Island, United States. Se has participated in more than thirty individual and group exhibitions in Peru and abroad. Her exhibitions at the Arsenal in Venice in 2017 stand out, as well as the one held at the important Millennial Museum of China and The China Museum of Morn Art. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Nobel Collection, Zurich and the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos in Lima; Collection of the 21C Museum Kentucky, and of the Pinacoteca of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Verónica Ruth Frías (Córdoba, 1978) is an artist with an extensive multidisciplinary career both nationally and internationally, who began her career as a painter, carrying out some early works in which she integrated collage with painting and which derived, from from the year 2005, in digital collages of performative photographic portraits, claiming paintings by historical artists or raising questions related to art and life.
Elvira is an artist trained as an art historian and photographer. She is currently a multidisciplinary artist exploring sculpture, painting, drawing, installation,photography and video. She uses everyday materials, specifically objects of domestic use, as well as found objects such as tree leaves and stones. She also uses delicate objects like lace, but combines them with materials that are mainly used by men, creating both a tension between them, and also a harmonious fusion.
Nasim Hantehzadeh (b. 1988) is an Iranian-American artist based in Los Angeles, California. She studied a bachelor’s degree at the University of Tehran Center for Art and Architecture in 2007; in 2013 she received a Bachelor of Arts (BFA) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and a Master of Arts (MFA) from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2018.
Art has the power to connect, heal, and build communities, define periods, and start new ones.
While much of the world’s cultural offering has closed its doors to combat the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), at MIA Collection we remain committed to our mission of inspiring knowledge, creativity, ideas and being an art haven created by women.
That is why, committed to our community, we have decided to make available, through our social networks, a technological platform to help artists make their work visible and also show some of our own Collection’s valuable works of art, all this through our exclusively designed MIA Art Collection Virtual Museum
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Born in Bangladesh in 1977, Rana Begum lives and works in London.
The work of London-based artist Rana Begum distills spatial and visual experience into ordered form. Through her refined language of Minimalist abstraction, Begum blurs the boundaries between sculpture, painting and architecture. Her visual language draws from the urban landscape as well as geometric patterns from traditional Islamic art and architecture. Light is fundamental to her process. Her works absorb and reflect varied densities of light to produce an experience for the viewer that is both temporal and sensorial.
Begum was also recently elected an RA (2020)
Sonia Gomes works with sculpture and installations made with different materials, such as clothes and furniture, and plays with potential spiritual combinations between them. Her compositions stem from a spontaneous and casual practice of deconstruction and re-assemblage of the everyday objects that cross her path. The artworks are created in a process conducted with a rare intuition, giving life and proposing a new sense to things in the world.
These amalgams carry vestiges of previous existences and each part is added to the whole in a double process. In other words, their physical nature and their historical weight. Expressionist-like organic forms emerge from the decomposition of affective objects, which invariably lead to the vision of a pulsating life, made from the combination of different experiences and memories.
Gomes designs multiple and meticulous contortions with fabric – strictly using handcraft techniques. Each seam or fold comes from vernacular procedures aimed at transcending the notion of the popular, combining the naive (as a result of an informal and self-taught background) and the erudite (in line with a rigorous gaze and gesture); the traditional and the inventive; the readymade and the authorial, in order to forge an affective, aesthetic and political redistribution of art’s complexities, raw materials and outcomes. Within the entanglement of memories and intuitive materializations, biographies find escape routes in a tactile and organic way, experimenting with new and vibrant ways of existing.
Sonia Gomes (Caetanópolis, 1948) lives and works in São Paulo.
In 2018 the artist had her first major monographic institutional exhibitions in Brazil, at MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo and at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói. In addition, her work has been included in institutional group exhibitions such as the 56ª Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (2015); Entangled, Turner Contemporary, Margate, United Kingdom (2017); Revival, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA (2017); Art & Textiles – Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (2013); Out of Fashion. Textile in International Contemporary Art, Kunsten – Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark (2013).