Loreto Carmona Chilean, b. 1981
Loreto Carmona Manaut was born in Santiago, Chile, on November 5, 1981. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with a concentration in Painting from Finis Terrae University, from which she graduated in 2005. In 2008, she completed a graduate program in Media and Technologies at the Instituto Universitario de las Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her work has been actively developed and exhibited in Chile since 2009, and she began to gain international recognition in 2016. Notable among her most recent exhibitions are a two-person show in 2025 at the Extension Center of the C. de Talca University; in 2023, her latest solo exhibition at La Capilla Gallery, Montecarmelo Cultural Center in Santiago; and at Espora Gallery with the installation “Dynamic Geography.” In 2022, he held his fourth solo exhibition, “Provincia,” at the Bob Borowitz Gallery, also at the Montecarmelo Cultural Center, and the group exhibition “Afecto” at the Matta Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, curated by Fernando Farina and Pedro Donoso. In 2021, he participated in “Acaab, all artists are political,” a group exhibition at Factoria Franklin, and in 2020 in “El mundo al instante” at the Isabel Croxatto Gallery. In 2019, he was part of a collective of Chilean artists at Munar Arte in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and his work was featured at Bienalsur, exhibited at the San Marco Museum in Lima, Peru. In 2018, he participated in an artist residency at the Instituto Cervantes in Moscow, Russia. He took part in the exhibition “Iconographies of the Desert/Rural”
at the Extension Center of the Ministry of Culture and the Arts (CENTEX) in Valparaíso, curated by Rodolfo Andaur; he was also one of the participating artists in “Desórdenes sistémicos,” a group exhibition held at the Matta Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, curated by Miguel López; and he also participated in the SIART Bolivia Biennial that same year. In 2017, he held his third solo exhibition at Galería Espora in Santiago, Chile. His work has also been exhibited at various art fairs, including Ch.ACO (Chile), ArtLima (Peru), and Pinta (Miami).
She lives and works in Santiago, Chile.
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Loreto CarmonaClavel en flor (Carnation in bloom), 2025Wool, felt, and digital print on cotton paper.110 x 70 cm -
Loreto CarmonaEspaldas al mar (With their backs to the sea), 2025Wool, woven straw matting, acrylic, and digital print on cotton paper.50 x70 cm
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Loreto CarmonaLlama, 2025Digital print on cotton paper, intervened with textile.110 x 80 cm.
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Loreto CarmonaDibujar con las sombras I (Drawing with Shadows I), 2024Digital print on cotton paper, enhanced with found objects. Framed in Mañio wood130 x 80 cm.
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Loreto CarmonaDibujar con las sombras IV (Drawing with Shadows IV), 2024Digital print on cotton paper, intervened with embroidery, book pages, and woven straw matting. Framed in mañío wood.130 x 83 cm
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Loreto CarmonaDibujar con las sombras V (Drawing with Shadows V), 2024Digital print on cotton paper, wool, and mat. Framed in Mañio wood130 x 82 cm.
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Loreto CarmonaDibujar con las sombras (Drawing with Shadows), 2023Digital print and slide mounted on cotton paper.120 x 80 cm
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Loreto CarmonaSugerencias para rellenar (Suggestions for filling), 2022Regional maps of Chile intervened with gold thread and framed.10 x 15 cm each one
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Loreto CarmonaDe los valles del paraíso (From the valleys of paradise), 2021Digital printing and wooden letters on cotton fabric140 x 190 cm
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Loreto CarmonaLa contemplativa (The Contemplative), 2021Crochet embroidery, gold thread, found print, and magnet. Framed in black aluminum.49 x 40 x 3 cm
My work is based on research around the processes of transculturation and consequent evolutionary unleashing in Latin America since conquest, colonization and subsequent migrations, through a common heritage: the image. In a constant collection, gathering and intervention of images and materialities, I assemble allegories from which I question systems of representation that define us as region. They are bodies illustrating reflections and thoughts around the history of an exotizised and marked ground since the first encounter. My work immerses itself in a constant search through the meaning of the word identity, which stands out trying to highlight the codification of the meaning of being South American.