Maribel Mas 玛丽贝尔 马斯

Resident in Barcelona since 2000.
Since 2005 in her workshop Taller Esquina, works as printmaker and teacher in lithography, etching and woodcarving, and collaborate with museums and
art schools in projects related to print techniques since 2003, as the Aoya Kyoudokan Museum, Japan in activities during graphic works exhibitions, or in 2011 in the Picasso Museum in Barcelona with the woodcarving workshop Mokuanga to Washi on japanese papers in the program of the exhibition Secret Images.
In Caracas, between 1985 and 1989 studied graphic design in the IDC, etching and additive techniques in the TAGA, Graphic Workshop of Caracas. Participates in drawing workshops in the Kuadra Creativa in 1990 to 1992 and GAN, National Art Gallery of Caracas in 1997.
In Florence, Italy, at Lorenzo Di Medici Institute of Art
studied painting and silkscreen in 1998.
In Barcelona had specialized in stone lithography in the Llotja School of Arts and Crafts between 2001 and 2005. In these years had studied also ceramic in Industrial School of Barcelona and in the Bisbal Ceramic School.
Since 2008 she is represented by the Gallery Elan D’Arts, Paris: www.elandarts.com

Collective exhibitions

1992, Salón CANTV, Caracas, Venezuela.
1994, VII Exfilve, Philatelic Exhibition, Caracas
Contemporary Art Museum, Venezuela. (catalogue)
1998,Tito Salas Contemporary Art Gallery,
Caracas, Venezuela. (catalogue)
2000, Latin American Illustrators selection, 27th Ibby
Congress, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. (catalogue)
2002, Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Aoya Kyoudokan
Museum, Japan. (catalogue)
Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Museu Molì
Paperer de Capellades, Spain.
2002, Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Aoya Kyoudokan
Museum, Japan. (catalogue)
Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Museu Molì
Paperer de Capellades, Spain.
4 from Llotja, Quiosk Gallery, Tremp, Spain.
2006, Graphic Works on Arches Papers, Escola Llotja
Avignon section, Barcelona, Spain.
Calcografía Nacional Graphic Art Contest,
Zamora, León, Oviedo, Valladolid and Museo de la
Moneda, Madrid, Spain. (catalogue)
Honda Painting Awards, La Garriga, travelling to Girona,
LLeida and Tarragona. (catalogue)
2009, Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Casa Cervantes de
Tokyo, Japan.
2010, Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Centre de Artesania de
Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
2012, La Galería, Barcelona, Spain.
Barcelona European Art, Brocken Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
20th International Print Triennial, Kracow, Poland.
2013, 20th International Print Triennial, Oldemburg, Germany.
Opole Contemporary Art Gallery, Poland.

Solo exhibitions

2012, Variations, lithography series 2011-2012,
Taller Esquina, Barcelona, Spain.
2005, Cambra de la Propietat Urbana de Barcelona, Spain.
Andoh Gallery de Tottori, Japan.
Taller Esquina, Barcelona, Spain.
2008, Enlaces, Museu Sant Pol de Mar, Spain. (catalogue)
Enlaces, Molì Paperer de Capellades, Spain.
Enlaces, Taller Esquina, Barcelona, Spain.

Awards

1994, Theobaldo de Nigris, Graphic Art Award, First Prize,
Latin America Graphic Industry Association, Mexico.
2004, Aoya Kyoudokan Museum, Graphic works on Inshu
Washi papers, Fist Prize, Japan.
2006, Arches Papers Award, First Prize, Paris, France.

Collaborations and editions

1998, Silkscreen series, Art Studio Fuji, Florencia, Italy.
2002, Lithographic workshop, Aoya Kyoudokan Museum,
Japan.
2006, Etching series, ediciones Tinta Invisible, Barcelona,
Spain.
2008, Technical displays, Molì Paperer de Capellades, Spain.
Lithographic workshop Museu Sant Pol de Mar, Spain.
2010, Lithographic workshop Massana Art School and
Facultad de Bellas Artes, UAB University, Spain.
2011, Japanese woodcarving courses and technical displays,
Picasso Museum, Barcelona, Spain.
2012, Woodcarving series, PlumBum Verlag,
Baumwollespinnerei, Leipzig, Germany.

Web page

Maribel Mas: www.maribelmas.com