Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza (b. Quito, Ecuador; lives and works in Paris). After studying arts at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, she moved to France in 2002 and entered the Beaux‐ Arts (ENSBA) in Paris, going on to obtain two postgraduate degrees from the Beaux‐Arts in Paris and Lyon. She has participated in many shows in France, Ecuador and elsewhere, she has had solo exhibitions at the following venues: Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, France (2018); FRAC Franche‐Comté (à rebours, Besançon, 2016); La Maison Salvan (casa tomada, Labège, 2016), the CPIF (fragments liminaires, Pontault‐Combault, 2015); at the Crédac (l’espace épisodique, Ivry‐sur‐Seine, 2014); at the Villa du Parc (la dixhuitième place, Annemasse, 2013); at art centers in Cuenca (en valija, Sala Proceso, 2013) and Quito (exposición, Arte Actual, 2012) in Ecuador; at the Al Ma’mal Foundation (la visibilité est un piège, Nuit Blanche, East Jerusalem, Palestine, 2012); at The Hangar (no vacancy, Beirut, Lebanon, 2011); at the Centre d’Art Bastille (à perte de vue, Grenoble, 2009. Selection of recent and forthcoming shows include: Insurrecciones at Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (Barcelone, 2017) et at MUNTREF (Buenos Aires, 2017),Soulèvements at Jeu de Paume (Paris, 2016), Horizon at Magasin (Grenoble, 2016), Les propriétés du sol at Espace Khiasma (Les Lilas, 2015), C’est pas la mort! at Musée d’Ethnographie (Neuchâtel, 2015), Nouvelles Vagues at Palais de Tokio (Paris, 2013). She has also participated in several seminars, colloquiums and among the residencies: with Triangle France in the Tassili desert in Algeria, with La Galerie in Noisy‐le‐Sec, with The Hangar in Beirut and with the Centre photographique d’Île‐de‐France, in Pontault‐Combault. She has had two public commissions in 2014/2015: one for the secondary school “Barbara” in Stains (récoltes), the other in Chalezeule with the DRAC Franche‐Comté (oeuvreuses).
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