Biography

Chelin Sanjuan Piquero, born on May 1st of 1967, in the city of Zaragoza, Spain.

In 1968, emigrates with his parents to Chile, where she will live for five years. Later on they move to Venezuela, country where she will reside until 1987.

Her artistic vocation starts at a very short age. With three years paints insistently -houses, landscapes and dogs everywhere she can paint on, including all her home's walls-. At the age of seven she shows an amazingly and early way of understanding the perspective and the color usage, being accepted in the studio of some local painters, that work with models. There borns it's taste for the sketching of the human form, still-life and nature. She is a happy chilc playing with easels and paintbrushes.

Her interest about the artistic world is not limited to painting -she learns to play the piano, the guitar and the four-stringed guitar-, performs as keyboard player in some music bands in the city of La Victoria (Venezuela). Her taste for the music is reflected in lots of her paintings.

In 1985 she joins in "Escuela de Artes visuales Rafael Monasterios", in the city of Maracay.

Returns to Zaragoza in 1987 and takes classes in the studio of the painter Alejandro Cañada, taking the pre-university studies for the Facultad de Bellas Artes Universidad of Barcelona, where she joins that same year. While in the university, also goes to classes with some painters of the city, including Pablo Mañé.

Back to Zaragoza, in 1991, takes restoration classes in "Escuela Profesional de Bellas Artes".

She opens her own painting studio in Zaragoza in 1992, where she teaches during 11 years. During that time, she also teaches drawing and painting in "Studio Canfran" and does Jewelry Sketches workshops, for the students of the "Escuela de Joyería Bazan".

She has cooperated with various publications related with art, for example "Art Teatral", publication directed by Eduardo Quiles.

She works with the movie director Jose Antonio Salgot, making the Story-board for the movie "Dama de Porto Pim", based in t he novel of the same name, from the writer Antonio Tabucchi and in various projects for video and advertising.

She has experienced with all the pictorial techniques, from the simple charcoal to the aerography, and during various years she did oil painting, but since 1988 she works only with the acrylic technique, playing with the dificulty that involves the use of that technique for paintings with lots of transparencies and gradations, more complicated to work with than oil.

About her painting style, her surrealist and hyperrealism trends, moved on to some kind of magic realism, mixing reality with fantasy, old elements and new ones, with an optimistic and fresh narrative, full of messages, that give to her paintings a characteristic touch.

Currently she lives in Valencia, Spain.


Exhibitions

2011
  • Collective Exhibition "Pintores de la Galería" Galería Artealtea. Valencia. Spain
  • Winter Collective Exhibition. Galería Artealtea. Valencia. Spain
2010
  • VI Mostra del Grup de Pintors de Cornellà, Castillo de Cornellà de Llobregat. Spain
  • Collective Exhibition "Pintores de la Galería". Galería Artealtea. Valencia. Spain
  • Summer Collective Exhibition. Galería Artealtea . Valencia. Spain
  • Fallas Collective Exhibition. Galería Artealtea. Valencia. Spain
  • Spring Collective Exhibition. Galería Artealtea. Valencia. Spain
  • Winter Collective Exhibition. Galería Artealtea. Valencia. Spain
  • Christmas Collective Exhibition. Galería Artealtea. Valencia. Spain
  • Collective Exhibition "Inicio de temporada 2010". Galería Artealtea. Valencia. Spain
2009
  • Collective Exhibition "Universo Mitológico" Galería Rincón del Arte. Granada. Spain
  • Collective Exhibition "Pintores de la Galería". Galería Artealtea. Valencia. Spain
  • Summer Collective Exhibition. Galería Artealtea . Valencia. Spain
  • Fallas Collective Exhibition. Galería Artealtea. Valencia. Spain
  • Spring Collective Exhibition. Galería Artealtea. Valencia. Spain
  • Winter Collective Exhibition. Galería Artealtea. Valencia. Spain
  • Christmas Collective Exhibition. Galería Artealtea. Valencia. Spain
  • Collective Exhibition "Inicio de temporada 2010". Galería Artealtea. Valencia. Spain
2008
  • IV Muestra Nacional de Pintura "Patios de Córdoba 2008". Córdoba. Spain
  • Collective Exhibition. "Pintores de la Galería". Galería Pizarro. Valencia. Spain
  • Collective Exhibition. Galería Pizarro. "Salón de Primavera". Valencia. Spain
2007
  • Collective Exhibition. "Pintores de la Galería". Galería Pizarro. Valencia. Spain
  • Collective Exhibition. Galería Pizarro. "Salón de Primavera". Valencia. Spain
2006
  • Collective Exhibition. Astarte Gallery. Paris. France
  • Collective Exhibition. "Donna: arte a 360 º ". Aversa. Italy
  • Collective Exhibition. "Colectiva de Otoño". Galería Salvi Arte. Gijón. Spain
  • Collective Exhibition. "Pintores de la Galería". Galería Pizarro. Valencia. Spain
  • Collective Exhibition. "Salón de Primavera". Galería Pizarro. Valencia. Spain
2005
  • Individual Exhibition. Galería Artealtea. Valencia. Spain
  • Collective Exhibition. Galería Pizarro. "Colectiva de Navidad". Valencia. Spain
  • Collective Exhibition. Galería Artealtea. "Colectiva de Invierno". Collective Exhibition. Valencia. Spain
  • Collective Exhibition "Homenaje a La Mare de Deu". Galería Artealtea. Valencia. Spain
  • Collective Exhibition. "La Falla de Gallego y Rey". Galería Artealtea. Valencia. Spain
2004
  • Individual Exhibition. Sala Torre Nueva / Ibercaja . Zaragoza, Spain
  • Individual Exhibition. Galería Artealtea. Valencia. Spain
  • Collective Exhibition. Galería Artealtea. Valencia. Spain
2003
  • Feria de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla. Palacio de Congresos. Sevilla, Spain
  • Feria de Arte Contemporáneo de Oporto. Portugal
1995
  • Individual Exhibition. Sala de Arte Central Hispano 20. Zaragoza. Spain
  • Collective Exhibition Unicef. Sala Torrenueva. Zaragoza. Spain
1994
  • Individual Exhibition. Hotel Boston. Zaragoza. Spain
  • Muestra de pintura en directo, representando a la marca de pinturas Mir. El Corte Ingles, de Diagonal. Barcelona. Spain
1993
  • Individual Exhibition. Sala Bomarzo. Zaragoza. Spain
1991
  • Individual Exhibition. Sala Teruel. Zaragoza. Spain
  • Individual Exhibition. Centro Cultural Ateneo. La Victoria. Venezuela
  • Collective Exhibition. Sala Teruel. Zaragoza. Spain
1990
  • Individual Exhibition. Sala "Amics de les Arts". Terrassa. Spain
  • Individual Exhibition. Casa de la cultura. La Victoria. Venezuela
  • Individual Exhibition. Sala de Arte Casa Mariño. La Victoria. Venezuela
  • Collective Exhibition. Obra seleccionada, "Concurso de pintura Dibusport". Barcelona. Spain
  • Collective Exhibition. "V Concurso de Carteles comerciales". Terrassa. Spain
  • Collective Exhibition. "I Muestra de Arte Universitario Intel-expo". Bellaterra. Spain
  • Collective Exhibition "V Concurso de Pintura Montserrat Arnau". Terrassa. Spain
  • Collective Exhibition, "Ateneo". La Victoria, Venezuela
  • Collective Exhibition, "Una Luz en América". El Consejo. Venezuela
  • Collective Exhibition. "Casa de la Cultura". El consejo. Venezuela
  • Collective Exhibition. Sala de arte del Círculo de Escritores Latinoamericanos". Maracay. Venezuela
1987
  • Collective Exhibition. " Certamen Nacional de Pintura Joven". Primer Premio. Maracay. Venezuela
  • Collective Exhibition. "Pintores Victorianos". La Victoria. Venezuela
  • Collective Exhibitions. "V Certamen Juvenil de Artes Plásticas
    • Sala de la Diputación provincial de Zaragoza
    • Sala de Arte "Pablo Serrano", Teruel
    • Sala de Exposiciones de la C.A.Z.A.R. Genaro Poza, Huesca
    • Museo de Arte "Alto Aragón", Huesca
1986
  • Collective Exhibition. Obras en Miniatura". Galería de Arte Nacional". Caracas. Venezuela
  • Collective Exhibition. "Pintores de Aragua ". Museo de Maracay. Maracay, Venezuela
  • Collective Exhibition. "I Salón de Pintura y Escultura Pablo Picasso". Embajada de Spain. Caracas, Venezuela
  • Collective Exhibition. "III Salón de Pintura "Club de Suboficiales de las Fuerzas Armadas Venezolanas ". Caracas. Venezuela
  • Collective Exhibition. Galería Desercha. La Victoria. Venezuela
  • Collective Exhibition. "Asociación de autores y compositores del Estado Aragua". Maracay. Venezuela
1985
  • Collective Exhibition. Concurso de pintura Las Candelarias. Honorable mention. Maracay. Venezuela
  • Collective Exhibition. "Concurso de pintura Liceo José Félix Rivas". 2nd Prize . La Victoria. Venezuela
  • Collective Exhibition. "Concurso de pintura Liceo José Felix Rivas". 2nd Prize . La Victoria. Venezuela
  • Collective Exhibition. "IV Concurso Nacional de Pintura Libre". Honorable mention. La Victoria. Venezuela
1980
  • Collective Exhibition. "Concurso Tegawitha 6rd, Horse Show". Honorable mention . Pensilvania. USA