Natalia Villanueva Linares

2D 1/2, Paris

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Wrapping paper, mixed-media

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About the artist

Natalia Villanueva Linares

Natalia Villanueva Linares is a French Peruvian Artist who graduated with honors from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris. She currently lives in Chicago and works between North + South America and Europe. Her work has been shown in two major exhibitions at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Paris. She also exhibited at the Sala Miro Quesada Garland in Peru, the Collège de Bernardins in Paris and La Graineterie (FR). In 2019 she had her first solo shows with DPM gallery in Ecuador, Wu Gallery in 2021 (Peru), her first solo show at the Museo de Arte de San Marcos in 2022 as well as Comfort Station in Chicago. She collaborates often with Doyang Lee Gallery (Paris).

Villanueva Linares is also a cultural worker and co-founded the non-profit organization Yaku in Peoria, Illinois. She is the former Director of the Artist-run mini mansion High Place and founder of the magazine Ukayzine, created to promote international cultural exchanges through the visual Arts. Natalia contributes as a Translator for Sixty Inches From Center, with her series "Desde los Archivos'' and recently inaugurated the critic program CANJE in her studio Fortuna, an exploration in cultural criticism.