Magdalena Rantica
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 2, 1973.
She lives and works in Oaxaca, Mexico.
She studied arts at the National School of Fine Arts P. Pueyrredón in Buenos Aires, Argentina and graduated from the Institute of Art of the Teatro Colón.
She completed the professional training of Eutonía, and attended the visual arts workshop of Sergio Bazán.
Solo exhibitions (Selection)
2023 Domestic Landscape, Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas, USA
2018 Paintings, Agavero, Oaxaca Space, Mexico
2016 Aurora, Manuel García Contemporary Art Gallery, Oaxaca, Mexico
2016 Boreal, MUPO Museum of Oaxacan Painters, Oaxaca, Mexico
2015 Bruma, Alejandro Bustillo Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011 Tómbola, Bicentennial Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010 May Spring, Magdalena Rantica, Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2009 Birds bark in my dreams, Zavaleta Lab Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007 Eternity plus a Wednesday, Zavaleta Lab Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2005 Rojo II, Work on Paper, Alliance Française, Presented by Bab Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2004 Painting, Bacano Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2004 Red, Work on paper and performance, La Tribu Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2001 Interwoven, Paintings, Arguibel ART Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2001 Anatomy of the Weavers, Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Group exhibitions (selection)
2023 Summer, Erin Cluley Gallery Dallas, USA
2023 Campo Semántico, Gallery L, Mexico City, Mexico
2023 In Bloom, Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas, USA
2023 Artists from Argentina and Mexico in dialogue, Diderot Art, Argentine Embassy, CDMX, Mexico
2023 Contemporary art in Oaxaca, Senate of Mexico, Mexico
2022 Habitation of the home, Galería Quetzalli in Piaccere, CDMX; Mexico
2022 Exquisite Corpse, Quetzalli Gallery, Oaxaca, Mexico
2021 You from me, Me from you, Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca, MACO, Mexico
2021 Contemporary Art, Diderot Art, Las Lomas Business Club, CDMX, Mexico
2021 National Award of Visual Arts, Casa del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2020 My path, Curator Vale Vilar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2019 Insomnia, Manuel García Contemporary Art Gallery, Mexico
2019 Paintings, Palatina Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2019 National Arts Fund Award, Casa del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2018 Let's set sail, Pisa Culture Center, Pisa, Italy
2018 Let's Sail II, Women's Circle, Berlin, Germany
2018 Evocation of the landscape II, Santo Domingo de Guzmán Cultural Center, Oaxaca, Mexico
2016 Journey, revolution, and sleep, and search, and destroy. One61, CDMX, Mexico
2016 Evocation of the landscape, Manuel García Contemporary Art Gallery, Oaxaca, Mexico
2015 Sun of water, Allegro Gallery, Panama
2012 Art for three, Palais de glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011 Back to Paradise, Itaú Cultural, Collective Exhibition, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010 Spring in May, Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010 Lucid Dream, Allegro Gallery, Panama
2010 From the floor to the ceiling anthology of contemporary drawing, Chez Vautier Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010 History of Genji, Hoy en el Arte Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010 Intervention, Organized by the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires MAMBA and the HSBC Bank Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2009 Interior gardens, HSBC Bank Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2009 Raise your voice, convened by UNIFEM, Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007 I just came to see the garden, Luminous Garden Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Awards and Distinctions
2021 Special Mention in the category of Drawing, National Award for Visual Arts, Casa del Bicentenario
2015 Mention, National Award, National Bank, Argentina
2011 First Prize UADE Painting Award. Argentina
2011 Mention in Painting, National Award for Visual Arts edition 100, Argentina
2010 Acquisition Mention, IV National Painting Prize Central Bank, Argentina
2008 Third Prize, III UADE Painting Competition, Argentina
2006 Mention in Textile Art, National Award for Visual Arts, Palais de Glace, Argentina
2004 Mention in the category of Painting, Manuel Belgrano Hall, Sivori Museum, Argentina
Scholarships and Residencies
2018 Creation Scholarship, National Fund for the Arts, Argentina
2010 Metropolitan Fund Scholarship for Science, Culture and the Arts. Argentina
2005 Scholarship-Residence, for Artistic Creation in Oaxaca, Chiapas and Mexico City
Selected in the following Awards and Art Salons
2019 National Competition, Fund for the Arts
National Award for Visual Arts in the following editions: 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2018, 2021
2013 Itaú Bank, Contemporary Art Award
2013 Finochietto Painting Salon
Banco Nación, National Painting Award, in the following editions: 2011, 2015
UADE Painting Prize, in the following editions: 2008 and 2011
2008 Williams Foundation Award
Manuel Belgrano Municipal Painting Award, in the following editions: 2002 and 2004
2002 McDonald's Award for new painters Palais de Glace
2001 Avon Foundation Biennial Competition
2001 Felix Amador Plastic Arts Award
Art Fairs
2020 Oaxaca Multiple, Oaxaca, Mexico
2016 Art & Antiques, New York, USA
2016 Affordable Art Fair New York. New York, USA
2013 BA Art, Nora fisch gallery
2011 BA Art, Chez Vautier Gallery
2008 BA Art, Bacano Galleries and Luminoso Garden
2007 BA Art, Gallery Zavaleta Lab
2007 BO Art, Zavaleta Lab Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
2006 Expotrastiendas, Presented by Bab Art
Publications
2017 Hoornik Magazine, Miami/Buenos Aires
2013 Two hundred years of Argentine Painting, Edited by the Hipotecario Bank Foundation
2013 Latir, Publication #1
2010 Counter-editorial. Publication #21
2010 Sweet black X. Publication #10
2009 Blur. Between art and communication
2006 Blackberry. Magazine of the interdisciplinary institute of gender studies. Publication #8