Carmen Anzano Biography

Vilanova de Sau, Spain, 1960.

An established Spanish artist, Carmen Anzano works with oil on canvas. Her pieces find themselves half way between painting and sculpture, uniting a certain three dimensionality with the two dimensional picture plane, as if the subject has begun to detach itself from the canvas. This treatment gives her work an object-like quality that is both evocative and poetic.

Anzano has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. In 1994 she received first prize at the II Bienal de Martorell, and in 1995 she was awarded residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris.

SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITONS:

2007 - PicassoMio.com

1999 - Galeria Teofilo. Aguilar del Campo, Palencia, Spain. - Palacio de Albaicin. Noja, Cantabria, Spain.

1997 - Galeria Verena Hofer. Barcelona, Spain.

1996 - Espacio Minimo. Murcia, Spain. - Casas del Ã?guila y la Parra. Santillana del Mar, Spain. - Galeria Afinsa-Almirante. Madrid, Spain.

1993 - Galeria Fernando Silio. Santander, Spain.

1992 - Galeria Gloria de Prada. Barcelona, Spain.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2000 - Bienal Muestra de Arte Contemporaneo Catalan. Canals, Galeria de Arte. Sant Cugat. Barcelona, Spain.

1999 - Fundacion Coca-Cola. Sala Alameda. Malaga, Spain. - Art Miami?99. Galeria Almirante. Miami, USA.

1998 - ARCO. Galeria Verena Hofer. Madrid, Spain. - Premio de Pintura L?Oreal. Madrid, Spain. - Sala de Armas de la Ciudadela. Pamplona, Spain. - Casa de Velazquez. Madrid, Spain.

1997 - ARCO. Galeria Fernando Silio. Madrid, Spain.

1994 - I Taller de Pintura Fundacion Marcelina Botin. Santander, Spain.

1993 - Galeria Berini. Barcelona, Spain.

1992 - Olimpiada Cultural Barcelona ?92. Barcelona, Spain.

1991 - Canals, Galeria de Arte. Sant Cugat, Barcelona, Spain. - "Triangle Artists Workshop". New York, USA.

Selected Awards AND PRIZES:

2000 - Adquisicion X Certamen de Pintura La UNED. Madrid, Spain.

1996 - Adquisicion II Certamen Unicaja de Artes Plasticas. Madrid, Spain. - Adquisicion I Bienal de Escultura Ciudad de Pamplona. Pamplona, Spain.

1995 - Residente en la Cite Internationale des Arts. Paris, France. - Adquisicion V Bienal de Pintura Ciudad de Pamplona. Pamplona, Spain.

1994 - Adquisicion Bienal Ciudad de Zamora. Zamora, Spain. - First Prize, III Bienal de Martorell. Martorell. Barcelona, Spain.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS: - Fundacion Coca-Cola España, Madrid, Spain. - Coleccion Arte Contemporaneo del Gobierno de Cantabria, Spain.