About/CV
Javiera da Fonseca Ilić is a chilean artist mainly focused on drawing and painting. Her work is an ongoing exploration on color realms, composition, energy, vortices and the subtle divine veil of our relation and sense of oneness with nature.
By using brilliant chroma and going beyond the perceived forms, she generates landscapes and scenes suspended in time, inviting the observer to connect with their own memories- dreams, being a catalyst to evocation.
Her aesthetic, philosophical and spiritual quest through art rises when she moved to Mexico in 2015. The culture, the colors, the environment, the medicine and wisdom of ancient civilizations influenced her. Javiera latest exploration it’s being on the abstract language where she invites intuition, present mindset, meditation, movement, music and emotional catharsis to create paintings that zoom into plants, body, cells, but at the same time manifests landscapes from above, observations of the earth and space.
Javiera da Fonseca Ilić began her art education at Universidad de Chile (2000-2005) where she graduated in Visual Arts with a specialization in painting. Javiera further her studies of art appreciation under Eugenio Dittborn (2008, 2009). Her work has been exhibited in galleries, art fairs and auctions in her native Chile, Mexico, United States and Canada. Many of them by the hand of Monica Reyes Gallery (Vancouver). Javiera currently lives and works in Mexico.
CV
Javiera da Fonseca Ilić
Santiago de Chile, 1982
STUDIES
- Bachelor in Visual Arts, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile 2001 – 2005
- Eugenio Dittborn mentoring program, Santiago, Chile 2008 – 2009
- Taller Bloc mentoring program, Santiago, Chile 2013
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- “Aguas Latentes” Loot Gallery, Mexico City 2022
- “When the subject chooses the artist” Loot Gallery, Zihuatanejo, Mexico 2020
- “Panorámica Maya” 123 Gallery, Mexico City 2019
- “Memoria Expandida” Casa Equis, Mexico City 2018
- “Aura: a Mexican experience” Monica Reyes Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 2017
- “La más silenciosa de todas la horas” Garage Gallery, Mexico City, 2016
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- “Deliciosa Monstera”, Maia Contemporary, Mexico City 2018
- “Expo Mutt”, Mutt Gallery, Santiago, Chile 2016
- “Line of Dust: Pabellón de Arte Contemporáneo” Mexico City, Mexico 2015
- “Ephemeral”, The Art Walk Gallery, Santiago, Chile 2015
- “Concrete Paradise.” Madhaus Gallery, Santiago, Chile 2014
- “Aurora”, Posada del Corregidor, Santiago, Chile 2013
- “Acto Seguido”, Bloc, Santiago, Chile 2013
- Final exhibition Dittborn, D21 Gallery, Santiago, Chile 2009
CONTEMPORARY ART FAIRS
- Foire Papier Montreal, with Monica Reyes Gallery, Canada 2020
- Art Toronto, with Monica Reyes Gallery, Canada 2019
- F.A.M.A. Monterrey with Casa Equis, Mexico 2018
- Art on Paper New York with Monica Reyes Gallery, USA 2018
- Art Market San Francisco, with Mónica Reyes Gallery, USA 2018
- Art Seattle, with Monica Reyes Gallery, USA 2017
- The Hamptons Market Art+Design with Monica Reyes Gallery, USA 2017
- Art Market San Francisco with Monica Reyes Gallery, USA 2017
- Ch.ACO Fair Santiago, with Totoral Lab Gallery, Chile 2017
- Art Toronto with Mónica Reyes Gallery, Canada 2016
- Art Seattle, with Monica Reyes Gallery, USA 2016
- Art Palm Beach, with Art Labbé Gallery, USA 2016
- Art Boca Raton with Art Labbé Gallery, USA 2016
- Ch.ACO, with Totoral Lab Gallery, Chile 2016
- Ch.ACO, with Totoral Lab Gallery, Chile 2015
- FAXXI, Santiago, Chile 2015
- ArtSTGO, Santiago, Chile 2014
AUCTIONS
- F.A.M.A. Monterrey, 8M online, Mexico 2023
- F.A.M.A. Monterrey, 8M online, Mexico 2022
- Fundación México Vivo, Museo Jumex, Mexico City 2020
- Fundación México Vivo, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City 2018
- Fundación México Vivo, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City 2017
- Iguales Foundation, La Sala Gallery, Santiago, Chile 2015
RESIDENCIES
- Bacab, Tulum, Mexico 2024
- Dear, Lyon, France 2019
- Casa Equis, Mexico City 2018
- Tulum Art Club, Tulum, Mexico 2017