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She has been represented by Cube Gallery Arts, DIFC (Dubai International Financial Center)

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Safa Al Hamed, Cube Arts and The Empty Quarter Gallery owner in Dubai

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G u a y a q u i l - P a r i s - D u b a i
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MariaVeronica Leon is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Ecuador, living and working in United Arab

Emirates. In 2015 she represented Ecuador at the 56th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di

Venezia, developing successfully Ecuador’s official contribution to La Biennale with the exhibition

“Gold Water: Apocalyptic Black Mirrors”. In 2O16 after the invitation of MACRO, Museum of

Contemporary Art in Rome, she became the first contemporary woman artist from Ecuador to have a

solo show in a museum in Rome.

From 1998 to 2013 she lived and worked in Paris, first contemporary Ecuadorian woman artist to

exhibit in a Parisian museum: Le Petit Palais (2008), invited for a solo show at the Galliera Museum

Paris (2006), and selected for “La Nuit Blanche” by the Cultural Affairs Department of Paris (2004). In

2007 she was part of the 52nd Biennale di Venezia, IILA Latin-American Pavilion.

When she moved to Dubai in 2014, she became the first Latin American artist having a solo show in

U.A.E. and being represented by a U.A.E. gallery, Cube Arts Gallery, DIFC. In 2017 Maria Veronica had a

solo show at Katara, Doha; and at the end of 2019 one at Sorbonne University in Abu Dhabi,

“TASAAMU/Tolerance, The Perpetual Sense of Tolerance and Peace”. Other exhibitions:

Metropolitan Museum Quito (2013). Art Brussels; Chapiteau de Fontvielle in Monte Carlo; Cipriani New

York (2012). Espace Beaujon Paris; Plaza Athenee Paris (2011). Spazio Thetis Venice (2010). Guanzhou

Art Fair (2008). MAAC, Contemporary Art Museum Guayaquil (2005). Crystal Palace Guayaquil; Thuiller

Gallery Paris (2003). Theatre de la Ville Paris (2002). Bill Tornade and Sylvie Rielle Paris (2000). Galerie

de Nesle Paris (99). Her work was part of La Havana Biennial (97); Art Forum Quito (96); Quebec

International Snow Sculpture Festival and British Council Quito (95). Beijing Latin American Art

Festival (94).

As a multidisciplinary artist Maria Veronica has been working with a variety of techniques: drawing,

painting, printmaking, video art, video installation, video-poetry, digital books, performance and

photography. From her early years the artist has shown her extraordinary talent also in portraiture

and self-portraiture. She made portraits of prominent figures like Bjork, Isabelle Adjani, Pina Bausch,

Louise Bourgeois, Dominique Mercy, Placido Domingo, Julie Stanzak, Helena Pikon, Bill Clinton,

Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, and diverse Ecuadorian, Latin American, European and now Middle Eastern

personalities.

In Ecuador, she worked with “La Galeria” in Quito and Madeleine Hollaender in Guayaquil (95/98). She

graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Quito (91-96), painting and printing specialization; where

she was as well Dean Assistant of Printing Department at the same university. In 1996 Guayasamin

invited her to work with him in “La Capilla del Hombre”, Quito (murals paintings). Maria Veronica

Leon is one of today's most dynamic artists from Latin America; her avant-garde work and life make

of her a leading woman in the international contemporary art scene.

Mail: lanoveaunee@hotmail.com

Web page: http://www.mariaveronicaworld.com/sorbonne-2019/

Facebook: mariaveronicaleonveintemilla

Instagram: maria_veronica_leon_v

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School of Fine Arts, Central University in Quito, Ecuador, specialization Painting and Printing

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Maria Veronica works with Guayasamin in Mural painting for "La Capilla del Hombre", Quito

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She works with “La Galeria” in Quito and Madeleine Hollaender Gallery in Guayaquil, Ecuador

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 La Galeria Quito 1998

Galerists Betty Wappenstein and Maria Elena Machuca

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Galerist Maria Elena Machuca

Madeleine Hollaender Gallery
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Galerist Madeleine Hollaender-Obrecth

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She moved to Paris, where she lives and works as a multidisciplinary artist in different medias: 

Drawing, Painting, Portrait, Art Video, Video Poetry, Multimedia Installation, Performance 

and Photography 

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Internet Goddess, Oil on Canvas, Paris 2oo1

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Artists, Members of Unicef France and Commissaire Prisseur Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr, Petit Palais Paris 2oo8

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In 2O14 Maria Veronica set up in Dubai, UAE 
where she has been represented by Cube Gallery Arts, DIFC (Dubai International Financial Center)

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