Desirée Maldonado-visual expressionist artist- Alta Gracia-Córdoba- Zip Code 5186,email: andemaldonado@gmail.com,
http://www.obradesiree.blogspot.com/

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Honors and Awards

Olympic Medal award-winning, Olympic Fine Art Committee,

Beijing, for “La Paz será nuestra victoria” (Peace will be Our Victory), 2009.

Selected in “La Bienal de Pintura de la ciudad de Rafaela”, Santa Fe, Argentina, 2009.

Declared “Vecina Destacada” (distinguished neighbor) by Resolution 027/09 due to International Artistic levels of accomplishments, Alta Gracia, Córdoba, Argentina, 2009.

Selected in “31° Salón y Premio Ciudad de Córdoba”, drawing and engraving. Córdoba, Argentina, 2009.


Selected in “Salón nacional de dibujo” (national drawing hall) of the Province of La Pampa, Argentina, 2009.

Selected to exhibit in the Consulate General of Argentina in New York, 2008.

Selected to exhibit in Havana, Cuba, 2008.

Selected in primer salón de dibujo faber-castell (the first national drawing hall), galería de arte Magma-Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina

, 2008.

Selected in “XIII salón ciudad de Carlos Paz”, Córdoba, Argentina, 2004.

Collective Exhibitions

“MIRARTE” event, glasses and sunglasses as the only and unique design piece engraved with small art pieces of ten local artists (Juan Juarés, Ramiro Vázquez, Marcos Acosta, and Andrés Silva Sle among others) “Galería Hijos del Rey” city of Córdoba, 2009.

La Bienal, Premio ciudad de Rafaela, Museo Urbano Poggi, 2009.

Museo Municipal Dr. Genaro Pérez, city of Córdoba, 2009.



Exhibition in honor of the painter Diego Cuquejo. (Artists involved Roque Fraticelli, Candelaria Silvestre, and Andrés Silva Sle among others) Museo Cultural, Alta Gracia, Córdoba, Argentina, 2009.

“ArTecho”, organized by (NGO) “un techo para mi país”, with the support of Fundación de arte Mirabile. Selected, together with other 39 artists, to paint small houses that will be auctioned to help homeless people. Galería del Buen Pastor, Córdoba, Argentina, 2009.

Murals-live exhibition. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Córdoba. (Artists involved: Juan Juáres, Ramiro Vázquez, Andrés Silva Sle, Pía Urbinatti, Gerardo Oberto and Luli Chalub), 2008.

Outlet de arte contemporáneo. Galería Espacio Centro, 2007.



End of the year exhibition galería Josefina Cangiano , Córdoba, Argentina, 2007.

Participated in “Tercer encuentro de artistas solidarios” (3rd charity artistic meeting), 2003.

Asociación Argentina de Cultura Británica, Córdoba Argentina, 2001.

Participated in native artists of Córdoba in “Centro de Participación Comunal” (Center for Communal Participation) (CPC) Colón, Argentina, 2001.


Participated in Local Artists. Alta Gracia, Córdoba, Argentina, 1999

Participated in “muestras de arte jóven” (young art exhibitions) in Alta Gracia, Córdoba, Argentina, 1998-1996.

Collective Exhibition in “CAG-ARTE” event organized by Carolina Nazar,1996.

Collective Exhibition in Museo Andrés Piñero, Alta Gracia, Córdoba, Argentina, 1994.

Indivual Exhibitions

Consulate General of Argentina in New York, 4th of June, 2009.

María Elena Kravetz Art Gallery, Córdoba, Argentina, 2008.

“Tres individuales” galería Josefina Cangiano, Consejo Provincial de la mujer (Provincial council of women) Artists involved: Luz Novillo Corvalán and Julia Di Renzo) Córdoba, Argentina, 2007.


Lo permanente y lo invariable” (the lasting and the invariable). Together with the sculptor Nélida Cipoletta. Andrés Piñero museum, Alta Gracia, Córdoba, Argentina, 2004.

Exhibition and artistic installation in “Espacio de Arte Alternativo Morondanga”, Córdoba, Argentina, 2003.


“La sensibilidad diversa” Colegio de Abogados de Alta Gracia, Córdoba, Argentina, 2001.

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