부산대학교 도서관

(b Caracas, Oct 30, 1961). Venezuelan multimedia artist. In 1980 she moved to the United States and studied biology at St. Xavier University, Chicago, graduating in 1986. In 1991 she obtained her Bachelor of Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and, in 1994, her master’s degree at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her first individual exhibition, Orchid, took place in 1995 at the University of Rochester’s Harnett Gallery. Arocha’s combination of decorative patterns printed with geometric structures is a hallmark of her production, beginning with her early installations, including Portraits of Orchid Installation (1994; priv. col.) and Gate (1997; priv. col.): works in which she conveyed not only the assimilation of modernity and abstraction in different areas of contemporary life but also inherent problems of painting and representation. During this period she received awards and grants such as the Jessica Holt Studio Arts Award (1994), the Rockefeller Foundation Emerging Artists Travel Grant (...