AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS

• 1st National Prize for Literature, Ministry of Education and Culture, Uruguay, 2025.
• Culture Moves Europe Grant, Goethe Institut, Third Call for Individual Mobility 2024.
• Third National Prize for Literature, Ministry of Education and Culture, Uruguay, 2020.
• Fondo Concursable para la Cultura, National Grant Program for the Visual Arts, Ministry of Education and Culture, Uruguay, for the project “Give my regards to those you connect (The Clemente Project)”, 2018.
• Artistic Research Scholarship for Young Artists (FEFCA), Ministry of Education and Culture, Uruguay, for the project Realisms, allegories and functions: towards an assimilation of recent visual arts practices from Eastern Europe, 2013.
• Fondo Concursable para la Cultura, National Grants Program for the Visual Arts, Ministry of Education and Culture, Uruguay, for the project Tempel der Medusa / Templo de Medusa, 2013.
• Fondo Concursable para la Cultura, National Grants Program for Dance, Ministry of Education and Culture, Uruguay, for the project Los hombres sin paz (with the choreographer and dancer Ruth Ferrari), 2013.
• 1st National Prize for Literature, Ministry of Education and Culture, Uruguay, 2012.
• Fondo Concursable para la Cultura, National Grants Program for Literature, Ministry of Education and Culture, Uruguay, for the book Sonetos a dos (with Horacio Cavallo), 2008.
• Scholarship Award, 52nd National Prize for the Visual Arts, Ministry of Education and Culture/ Foreign Office/ Torstrasse 111, Berlin, Germany, 2007.
• Exchange scholarship, D.A.U. Highschool, Colonia Valdense, Uruguay – Celciusskolan, Uppsala, Sweden, 1999.

RESIDENCIES

• Operation Nova: Re-imagining Cultural Spaces in a New European Context. Artists-in-residency program at Lumbardhi Foundation, Prizren, Kosovo, March-April 2025.
• Artist-in-residency at Arco Iris R, Bologna, February 2025.
• 4th AIR programme of Casa Walser. Hòbelté, Italy, July 2024.
• In from the margins. Artist-in-residency programme, A Creative Europe project led by Edinburgh Printmakers, Scotland. International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana, November 2022.
• 24th International Fine Arts Symposium Festival Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 2021.
• 28th International Symposium of Art – Slovenia open to the art, Sinji vrh, Slovenia, 2020.
• Confini / Límites. On-line international residence program, Ottovolante association, Bologna, Italy, 2020.
• Touch the Space, “South America-North Macedonia. New beginnings” artists-in-residence program by Makedonida, Atinska 2, Skopje, North Macedonia, August 2019.
• D’Clinic Studios / Tractor, Lendava, Slovenia, 2014.
• Cruces, International Art Workshop, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2011.
• Pedagogical Project, 7th MERCOSUR Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2009.

FORMAL EDUCATION

• 2012: Degree in Modern Philology, Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences, University of the Republic of Uruguay (Montevideo).
• 2000 – 2012: Studies, courses and seminars on music, philosophy, linguistics, art history and fine arts (Faculty of Humanities, University Music School, National School of Fine Arts and Artigas Institute for Education), Montevideo, Uruguay.
• 1990-1998: Atelier Francisco Siniscalchi, Nueva Helvecia, Uruguay.
  

LANGUAGES

English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Slovene.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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• Ana Gallardo (et al), Marina de Caro (ed.), Micrópolis experimentais: traduçoes da arte para a educação, Porto Alegre, MERCOSUR Biennial Foundation, 2009.
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• González, María de los Ángeles, Los más jóvenes: poesía uruguaya actual [The youngest ones: actual Uruguayan poetry], Lecture, ACEC, Barcelona, Spain, 2010.
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• Voices of transition. Contemporary Artists from Slovenia. Imago Mundi – Luciano Benneton Foundation. Texts by Luciano Benetton, Igor Španjol, Igor Zabel, Claudio Scorretti & Irina Ungureanu.
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• 13th International Fine Arts Festival Kranj – ZDSLU: Still Life in the Mirror of Time. Kranj, Slovenia, 2024.
• 52nd National Prize for the Visual Arts, Montevideo, Ministry of Education and Culture/National Museum for the Visual Arts, 2006.
• 54th National Prize for the Visual Arts, Montevideo, Ministry of Education and Culture/National Museum for the Visual Arts, 2010.
• 56th National Prize for the Visual Arts, Montevideo, Ministry of Education and Culture/National Museum for the Visual Arts, 2012.
• 59th National Prize for the Visual Arts, Montevideo, Ministry of Education and Culture/Contemporary Art Space (EAC), 2020.
• 60th National Prize for the Visual Arts, Montevideo, Ministry of Education and Culture/Contemporary Art Space (EAC), 2022.