Ximena Armas
Marta Ximena Armas Fernández (born 29 July 1946) is a Chilean painter, drafter and engraver active in France.
Ximena Armas

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- Name
- Ximena Armas
- Birth Name
- Marta Ximena Armas Fernández
- Born
- 29 July 1946
- Birthplace
- Santiago, Chile
- Education
- * University of Chile
- Occupation
- * Painter
- Nationality
- Chile
- Languages
- Spanish
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Marta Ximena Armas Fernández (born 29 July 1946) is a Chilean painter, drafter and engraver active in France.
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• Name — Ximena Armas • Birth Name — Marta Ximena Armas Fernández • Born — 29 July 1946 • Birthplace — Santiago, Chile • Education — * University of Chile • Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, 1969 • École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, 1974 • Beaux-Arts de Paris, 1974 • Occupation — * Painter • drafter • engraver • Website — * http: ximena.armas.free.fr/ • http: x.armas.free.fr
Biography
Biography
Armas was born Marta Ximena Armas Fernández on 29 July 1946 in Santiago, Chile. Armas studied for a year at the Arts Faculty of the University of Chile. From 1965 to 1969, Armas studied painting, graphic design, and film at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile under Mario Carreño, Eduardo Vilches, and Mario Toral. Awarded a scholarship by the French government in 1970, and settled in Paris the following year. Armas studied mural painting under Georges Rohner and Jacques Despierre at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, and painting and lithography at the Beaux-Arts de Paris from 1971 to 1974. Armas was married to the French painter Henri Richelet. Since 1969, she has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Chile, France, Spain, and Mexico. Works by Armas are held at the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, University of Talca and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Julio Cortázar.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
• Illustration — Ximena Armas (2007) Secrets
Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
• 1969: Galería Arturo Edwards, Santiago, Chile • 1970: Galería C.C. Providencia, Santiago, Chile • 1980: Galerie La Bolée, Anonnay, France • 1982: Latino-Américains à Paris, Grand Palais, Paris • 1986: Galerie Lefor Openo, Saint-Cloud, France • 1987: • Espace latino-américain, Paris • Galerie de la Main de fer, Perpignan, France • 1990: • Galería La Fachada, Santiago, Chile • Galerie Ceibo, Paris • 1994: Galería Arte Actual, Santiago, Chile • 1996: Town Hall, Neufchâteau, France • 1999: Galería Arte Actual, Santiago, Chile • 2001: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile • 2003: Musée Roybet-Fould, Courbevoie, France • 2006: • Galería Modigliani, Viña del Mar, Chile • Galería Praxis, Santiago, Chile • 2007–2008: Le Trait d'Union, Neufchâteau, France
Main group exhibitions
Main group exhibitions
• 1969: Prix Crav de Peinture, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile • 1972: La Peinture chilienne, UNESCO, Paris • 1974: Grafic 74, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Ibiza, Espagne • 1981: • Art pour le Nicaragua, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris • Cent gravures contemporaines • 1982: Chili Vivant, Mexico • 1983: Chili-femmes, Espace latino-américain, Paris • 1984: Peintres latino-américains, Monaco • 1986: Les Figurations de 1960 à nos jours, Musée de Cagnes-sur-Mer, E.B.A. de Besançon, Musée de Carcassonne, Couvent des Cordeliers de Châteauroux, France • 1989: Musée de l'Amérique latine, Monaco • 1990: Art chilien d'aujourd'hui, Espace Belleville and UNESCO, Paris • 1991: Festival international de la peinture, Château-musée de Cagnes-sur-Mer, France • 1995: • Femmes ibéro-américaines, Junta de Extramadura, Caceres, Espagne • Présence du Chili en France, Galería Plastica Nueva, Santiago, Chile • 1996: Artistes Chiliens en France, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile • 1997: • Festival des arts 1997 – Dialogue Est-Ouest, Vayolles, Vienne, France • Persistance du paysage dans la peinture chilienne, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile • 2003: Hommage à S. Allende, Centre culturel Robert-Desnos, Ris-Orangis, France • 2004: George Sand, interprétations, Couvent des Cordeliers, Châteauroux, France • 2007: Santiago Paris Santiago, Galería La Ventana Cemicual, Santiago, Chile • 2022-2023: 58th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, États-Unis
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Ximena Armas was born in 1946 at Santiago.
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Ximena Armas is recorded as having studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris and École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs.
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- 1.Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts. Ximena Armas. Artistas Visuales Chilenos.
- 2.Dumas, Julien. Artfabetic: Dictionnaire biographique des artistes plasticiens de France (tome 1). Association Concordia Patrimoine et Culture. 2016. 978-2-7466-8324-2.
- 3.Lebeau, Élodie. Le Musée international de la Résistance Salvador Allende en France (1975-1991): l'odyssée d'une collection d'art contemporain en exil. Université Jean-Jaurès. 2. 127. 2016.
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