Grace Weinrib

Statement

I am interested in the encounter between pictorial language’s chromatic, material and gestural nature with other mediums. I have been developing work related to this because I think that the ingredients correspondent to diverse visual languages such as painting, collage, photography and installation can be broken down, cut-up and reassembled as a way of displaying the nature of each language while questioning their boundaries.

I use familiar imagery and found materials from the house where I grew up (cut-outs from books, found photographs, magazines, old stationary, postcard collections, comic books, and so on), added-on to my own personal collections of oddities, painted color schemes, sketches, annotations, novel quotes, etc. because I think these materials are just as mysterious, ambivalent, subjective and available for deconstruction as visual language itself.

Grace Weinrib Dagach
Los Angeles, USA. 1983

Is a Bachelor of Visual Arts with a major in painting from the Finis Terrae University (Santiago, Chile). She has participated in group shows in Chile and abroad in venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chile), the Museum of Visual Arts (Chile) and the Casa de las Américas (Cuba). In 2011, she was part of the collective workshop, Drawing Laboratory (Gabinete de Dibujo) organized by Artishock | Contemporary Art Magazine. In 2014 she participated in the publication and exhibition SUB30 ∙ Painting in Chile (SUB30 ∙ Pintura en Chile). That year she put on her first solo show at Die Ecke Arte Contemporáneo in Santiago. In 2015 she won the AMA Grant - awarded by the AMA Foundation - consisting in the support to undertake a Residency Program at Gasworks (London, England) and a solo show at the Museum of Visual Arts (Santiago, Chile) the following year. In 2018 she has another solo show at Die Ecke Arte Contemporáneo in Santiago. Between 2011 and 2013 she was the teaching assistant for Professor Eduardo Vilches in his Color Workshop at the Finis Terrae University. In 2012, alongside the Visual Artist Catalina Quezada, she co-curated the Drawing Laboratory (Gabinete de Dibujo) exhibition at the MAVI. Between 2014 and 2018 she collaborated as a Visual Arts Tutor for patients in the Madness Radio Station group (Radio Estación Locura) at the José Horwitz Barak Psychiatric Institution in Santiago. In 2018, she paired up again with Catalina Quezada to co-curate Madness Radio Station, an Exhibition (Una exposición de Radio Estación Locura) at MAVI. Since 2018 she has been a Tutor for emerging Visual Artists. She lives and works in Santiago, Chile.

I. Education
2002 - 2006 ∙ Bachelor of Visual Arts with a major in painting from the Finis Terrae University, Santiago, Chile.
1992 - 2001 ∙ Santiago College, Santiago, Chile.
1990 - 1992 ∙ Melrose Ave. School, Los Angeles, USA.

II. Awards
2015 ∙ AMA Grant - awarded by the AMA Foundation - consisting in the support to undertake a three-month
Residency Program at Gasworks (London, England) and a solo show at the Museum of Visual Arts (Santiago, Chile)
the following year.

III. Residencies
2019 ∙ Munar. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2015 ∙ Gasworks. London, England.

IV. Exhibitions
Solo shows
2018 ∙ The Island of Socks, Die Ecke Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile.
2016 ∙ Nothing will be as it was before, Museum of Visual Arts (MAVI), Santiago, Chile.
2015 ∙ One thing was to write without the E, and something entirely different was to translate without the E,
Microgalería, Santiago, Chile.
2014 ∙ 7 ½ Floor, Die Ecke Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile.
Group shows (selection)
2014 ∙ SUB30 ∙ Painting in Chile, Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), Santiago, Chile.
2013 ∙ An Eskimo with a White Fox that he just Hunted. Images from Chile, Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba.
2013 ∙ Zebra Crossing, Sala de Arte Las Condes, Santiago, Chile.
2013 ∙ Artist of the month, 2 nd year Anniversary of Artishock | Contemporary Art Magazine, Galería LOCAL, Santiago,
Chile.
2012 ∙ Cutting and Pasting: 10 Ways of Understanding Collage, Galería Sofá, Santiago, Chile.
2012 ∙ Drawing Laboratory, Museum of Visual Arts (MAVI), Santiago, Chile.
2012 ∙ Artichoke Heart, 1 st year Anniversary of Artishock | Contemporary Art Magazine, Galería LOCAL, Santiago,
Chile.
2010 ∙ Not Like Most, Biblioteca de Santiago, Santiago, Chile.
2010 ∙ Plan de Obra, Galería Artespacio, Santiago, Chile.
2009 ∙ We Are Not a Collective | N200 Open Call, Galería Cellar, Santiago, Chile.
2009 ∙ Double Fantasy, Finis Terrae University Exhibition Hall, Santiago, Chile.
2007 ∙ Three Sad Tigers (Tres Tristes Tigres), Centro Juventud Providencia, Santiago, Chile.
2007 ∙ XXIX Open Call from the University of Valparaiso for Young Art and Poetry, El Farol Exhibition Hall of the
University of Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile.
2007 ∙ Quoting Zurbaran, Galería de Arte Estación Metro Quinta Normal, Santiago, Chile.

V. Art Fairs
2019 ∙ ArteBA, Die Ecke Arte Contemporáneo Stand, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2017 ∙ Ch.ACO, 9 th Edition, Die Ecke Arte Contemporáneo Stand, Santiago, Chile.
2016 ∙ Ch.ACO, 8 th Edition, Die Ecke Arte Contemporáneo Stand, Santiago, Chile.
2015 ∙ Ch.ACO, 7 th Edition, Die Ecke Arte Contemporáneo Stand, Santiago, Chile.
2014 ∙ Ch.ACO, 6 th Edition, Artishock | Contemporary Art Magazine Stand, Santiago, Chile.