Biography
Karina Chechik (Buenos Aires, 1966). She received a Professor of Painting degree from the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredon, in Buenos Aires (1989). In 1995, she moved to Miami, where she lived until 2007. She was an artist in residence at the ArtCenter South Florida and an active member of the artistic community of Miami. She currently lives between Buenos Aires and Torino, and often exhibits her art in the United States.
Her work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, universities, and international art fairs in the United States, Latin America, and Europe.
Her most recent solo exhibition is Oasis Sagrados -September, October 2024- curated by Francesca Canfora, at Febo e Dafne gallery,Torino.
She has also been invited to participate at the Art in Nature exhibition, at the Museo de la Naturaleza, Cantabria, Spain
In 2023 Chechik created a large format installation for the exhibition Amazing Nature commissioned by the KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Denmark,in which 30 artists from all over the world expressed their ideas concerning the future of the planet
She has also participated in "By Degrees, Art and our Changing Ecology" an exhibition at the Huntington Beach Art Center, California.
In October 2022 Chechik created the project Migrant Lights, a solo exhibition at Casa Argentina in Rome, and simultaneous actions in the cities of Rome and Buenos Aires, creating a virtual Bridge of Light between the two cities
In 2021 Chechik created the series #HereComesHope, which was exhibited at The week of the Arts, organized by Casa d'Arte San Lorenzo in Sardegna.
In 2020 Ms. Chechik had a virtual solo show The consonance of the Limits at Universidad Católica Argentina Main Library, which was chosen to be part of the permanent online exhibition on the UCA Library website.
In 2019 The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation* selected her website — https://www.karinachechik-art.com/ — for inclusion in its Latin American and Caribbean Contemporary Art Web Archive.
In 2018 Karina Chechik created a large site-specific installation and show: The Vertical Labyrinth, a homage to Jorge Luis Borges and Franco Maria Ricci, curated by Rodrigo Alonso at Marq, Architecture and Design Museum, Buenos Aires. She also presented another solo exhibition: Promised Land at ICANA, Institute of Argentine and North American Culture, Buenos Aires.
In 2015 she had a retrospective at Palazzo Pretorio in Certaldo, Tuscany called TERRA, Geographie di Viaggio, that took 7 galleries of the art and anthropology Museum for which she created site-specific installations, interacting with the renaissance frescos and architecture of the building.
She created Architectures of Light, a traveling exhibition shown at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami (2014), the National Institute of Roman Studies, Rome, The Jewish Museum of Buenos Aires (2012), The Design Museum of Torino, and the Cathedral Museum of La Plata, Argentina (2011).
In 2003 she was invited by Ediciones Polígrafa in Barcelona to create a series of lithographies, that were later exhibited in the leading art fairs Art Basel, Art Basel Miami, and ARCO Madrid.
Selected solo and group shows include:
Dome Gallery, New York (1990) Jorge Luis Borges Foundation, Buenos Aires,(1998); Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami and Jewish Museum of Miami Beach (2002) Antonio de Barnola Gallery, Barcelona, (2005); Silkeborg Bad Art Centre, Denmark (2006); San Lorenzo Art Gallery, Milan (2007,2010), UBS Wealth Management gallery, Lugano, Switzerland (2008) MACO Art Fair, Mexico (2008); The Piemonte Biennial, Turin (2012), Michetti Foundation Italy (2013); Young Masters Art Prize London (2012/2013); Departures/ Arrivals show (1999-2014) Miami, Untitled Art Fair Miami (2016); Espacio Cruz Bajo Madrid ( 2017); Plataforma Argentina at Pinta Art Fair, Miami (2017), Art Nexus Foundation Bogota (2018), Buenos Aires Photo art fair (2020) and The Others art fair Torino (2023). Chechik was a Professor of Painting and Art History at The National Museum of Decorative Arts of Buenos Aires. She has lectured at prestigious Museums, Universities, and Public Institutions in Argentina, the United States, and Italy.
Her work can be found in important public and private collections in USA, Europe and Latin America.
The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation has selected Karina Chechik's website for inclusion in its Latin American and Caribbean Contemporary Art Web Archive. The Archive is an initiative developed by art and architecture librarians at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale Universities, and the Universities of Chicago and Pennsylvania. The project aims to preserve websites belonging to selected notable contemporary artists in order to assure the continuing availability of the important content they contain for researchers and scholars.