Vicky Delgado Biography

Vicky Delgado

I was born in La Orotava, Tenerife, in 1962.

By 1989, initiate studies of image and sound at the Polytechnic Institute of Ofra, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

My professional experience began in 1990 working for the newspaper "La Gaceta de Canarias. Later I was assistant to the photographer Roberto de Armas, and collaborate with the photographer Davide Matton, who founded "Studio 62" in the south of Tenerife.

From 1996 to perform as a freelance photography.

Met in Chile the Mapuche culture. After eight months in the deeper aspects of this culture, together with the Mapuche poet David Anin, Santiago de Chile in the exhibition "Mapuche memories of this." Upon my return to Tenerife was selected to participate in the biennial international photography exhibition this Fotonoviembre 97.

In 1998 I began to realize the first interviews and portraits of men and women born in the south of Tenerife in the early nineteenth century. These portraits reflect our traditional culture, which at present remains almost invisible due to the rapid development of the tourism industry and the consequent abandonment of traditional livelihoods and customs of the indigenous population.

In 1999 I was again selected for the Biennale Fotonoviembre with the aforementioned work.

In October 2000, the center island of Tenerife Photography invites me to participate in the "Tenerife end of the century" along with four other photographers, which conducted a series of photo-collages titled "La Isla wound."

During 2001 to prepare the work "Inheritance of Dreams" which was exhibited next to toys in the traditional Canarian Museum of Nature and Man of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and subsequently by several municipalities of the island. I can also highlight the "Reverse-Tripod," a collective family with my father and my sister. Participate in the International Biennial Fotonoviembre 2001, working as a helper in organizing and conducting technical training courses for beginners in photography for children, and explained the series "Dreams of women" within the Atlantic Collective.

In January 2002 this work "Arona, portrait of a people" at the Centro Cultural de Los Cristianos. That same year, I selected two works to the Biennial Regional Arts in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

In 2004 published the photography book "The South, the look of the old and beginning to investigate the different techniques of graphic arts at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking Art Center The Recova Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

In October 2005, presenting "Mapuche" in the cultural center of Girona.

In June 2006, presenting the "world root", composed of monotypes subsequently operated by hand at the International Center for Contemporary Printmaking. I was again selected for the Biennial Regional Arts Plastiques de Santa Cruz de Tenerife 2006 with two of these works. In November 2007 presenting "Reflections" a digitized photographs urban and intervene with various graphic techniques, The Guava Gallery in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Since early this year started a new series of images to experiment with the use of mobile, new technology, its application in artistic creation and its merger with other traditional means of creating the painting and graphic arts. This work was exhibited in the hall of Cas Juan La Laguna in October 2008. At the moment I prepare my participation in the International Biennial of Parana Entre Rios, Argentina in May 2009.

Exhibitions

Collective (selection)

1991 "Landscape and portrait, Búho Gallery, La Laguna (Tenerife). 1992 "Collective El Gallo", Universidad de La Laguna. 2000 "The Island Injury" within the New Century Project Tenerife, Centro de Fotografía Isla de Tenerife. " Collective 2000 "Chart 2000" Sala Antonin Artaud, San Juan de la Rambla (Tenerife). 2001 "Dreams of Women" Collective Atlantic Fotonoviembre Biennial, La Matanza de Acentejo 2001 "Inverted Tripod" Ateneo de la Laguna. 2002 "Singular feminine" Art School Estevez Fernando, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. 2002 Biennial of Art in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Centro de Arte La Recova. 2005 Open Space Foundation Mapfre Guanarteme, La Laguna. 2006 Biennial Regional Arts Center, Art Recova. 2006 Artists Collective Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Tenerife, Centro de Arte La Recova. 2008 Class "Recorded and contemporary" Colegio de Ingenieros Industriales de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. 2009 "Traces" Casa Salazar Principal, Santa Cruz de La Palma.

Individual (selection)

1995 "Portraits, travel and compositions, Arona (Tenerife). 1996 "Mapuche, memories of this," Gallery 108, Santiago de Chile. 1997 "Mapuche, memories of this," Guimera Area, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. 1998 "Mapuche, memories of this" group photo of Gran Canaria. The Matadexen, Azcoitia, Basque Country. 1999 "The South, the look of old," Ateneo de la Laguna. 2000 "The South, the look of the old Cultural Center and various locations in Arona Tenerife 2000 "Mapuche, memories of this" Museo Vasco, Bilbao. 2001 "Inheritance of Dreams" Museum of Nature and Man, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. 2002 Arona, portrait of a people "The Christian Cultural Center and various locations on the island. 2005 Mapuche memories of this "Cultural Center of Gerona. 2006 "World Root Room of the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, the Recova Art Center, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. 2007 "Reflections" Guava Gallery, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. 2008 "Mobile" Sala de Arte Juan Cas, La Laguna.