Delfina Bernal

Colombian artist (born 1941)

Delfina Bernal

Born| 1941 (age 83–84)

Barranquilla, Colombia

Nationality| Colombian
Education| Alejandro Obregón at Escuela de Bellas Artes, Barranquilla; Ben Bianchi at Parsons School of Design
Known for| Painting
Notable work| Carta de Amor a Jeff Perone

Delfina Bernal (born 1941 in Barranquilla, Colombia) is a Colombian painter and multimedia artist.

## Life

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Delfina Bernal studied painting and sculpture at the Escuela de las Bellas Artes in Barranquilla, Colombia.[1] She studied with the institute's director Alejandro Obregón and teachers Marie Claire de Andreis, Freda Sargent de Obregón, and María Luisa Andino de Lopez. She studied engraving with Ben Bianchi at the Parsons School of Design in the 1970s.

She was a founding member in 1973 of “Grupo 44”, along with Álvaro Herazo, Eduardo Hernandez, Victor Sanchez, Fernando Cepeda, Jairo Quintero and Christiane Lesueur.[2] Their work culminated in the exhibition La fotografía como documento en el arte conceptual de Barranquilla, curated by Alvaro Barrios, where Bernal exhibited her work Declaración de amor a Jeff Perrone.[3]

She has lived for two periods of her work and life in the United States. The first from 1968 to 1973 in New York City, and from 1981 to the present in San Francisco, California. She continues to work in several mediums including painting, etchings, collage, digital prints and photography.

## Exhibitions and awards

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* 1964: First Intercol Salon of Young Artists of 1964, Third Prize Acquisition[4]
* 1964: Colombia Esso Salon, Second Honorable Mention[5]
* 1980: The Photograph as Document in Conceptual art from Barranquilla[3]
* 2017: Radical Women, Armand Hammer Museum, University of California Los Angeles
* 2018: Radical Women, Brooklyn Museum

## References

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1. ^ Bernal, Delfina. "Esta soy yo". International Center for the Arts of the Americas. Diario El Tiempo (Bogotá, Colombia). Archived from the original on 20 July 2019. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
2. ^ "Agreements are limiting and I didn't have any agreements at that time". Delfinabernal.com. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
3. ^ a b Monroy Guerrero, Carlos Eduardo. "La fotografía como documento en el arte conceptual de Barranquilla". Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art. International Center for the Arts of the Americas. Archived from the original on 20 July 2019. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
4. ^ Torres Leon, Fernan (July 1964). "ESTADISTICAS CULTURALES DE COLOMBIA": 1344. Retrieved 5 September 2017. `{{cite journal}}`: Cite journal requires `|journal=` (help)
5. ^ "Colombia Esso Salon". Esso Salons. Retrieved 5 September 2017.

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