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of visual artists from, or associated with,
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* Arturo Pacheco Altamirano (1903–1978), painter * Graciela Aranis (1908-1996), painter * Claudia Aravena (born 1968), artist, curator, filmmaker, and professor * Ximena Armas (born 1946), painter


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José Balmes José Balmes Parramón (20 January 1927 – 28 August 2016) was a Spanish-born painter based in Chile. He received Chile's National Prize for Plastic Arts in 1999. Biography José Balmes was born in 1927 in the town of Montesquiu in Catalonia, ...
(1927–2016), painter *
Gracia Barrios Gracia Barrios Rivadeneira (27 June 1927 – 28 May 2020) was a Chilean painter and the winner of the 2011 National Prize for Plastic Arts. Biography The daughter of writer Eduardo Barrios (winner of the 1946 National Prize for Literature) an ...
(1927-2020), painter * Catalina Bauer (born 1976), visual artist * Joan Belmar (born 1970), visual artist * Samy Benmayor (born 1956), painter *
Claudio Bravo Claudio Andrés Bravo Muñoz (; born 13 April 1983) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for La Liga club Real Betis and captains the Chile national team. He started playing with Colo-Colo and moved to Real Sociedad ...
(1936–2011), hyper-realism painter *
Roser Bru Roser Bru Llop (15 February 1923 – 26 May 2021) was a Spanish-born Chilean painter and engraver associated with the neo-figurative art movement. Biography Roser Bru was born in Barcelona in 1923. The following year her family went into exi ...
(1923–2021), painter and engraver *
Pablo Burchard Pablo Burchard (November 4, 1875 – July 13, 1964) was a Chilean painter. His father was German architect Teodoro Burchard Haeberle, who arrived in Chile around 1855, and introduced the Gothic style, and his mother was María (Sofía) Luisa Egg ...
(1875–1964), painter


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Celia Castro Celia Castro (1860, Valparaíso - 19 June 1930, Valparaíso) was a Chilean visual artist. Her style is generally associated with Realism. Biography Castro's artistic career was inspired from a meeting with the painter Manuel Antonio Caro wh ...
(1860–1930), painter * Carlos Catasse (1944-2010), painter * Santos Chávez (1934–2001), printmaker * Marta Colvin (1907–1995), sculptor * Adolfo Couve (1940–1998), artist and writer *
Eugenio Cruz Vargas Eugenio Cruz Vargas (Santiago de Chile, Santiago, October 2, 1923 – Olmué, January 18, 2014) was a notable Chilean poet and painter. His art was developed under the Realism (arts), naturalistic landscape and abstraction, and his collection of ...
(1923–2014), painter and poet


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* Juan Davila (born 1946), artist * Emma Formas de Dávila (1883–1959), painter * Marcela Donoso (born 1961), painter * Juan Downey (1940–1993), video artist


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* José Tomás Errázuriz (1856–1927), landscape painter and diplomat * Virginia Errázuriz (born 1941), painter


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* Freddy Flores Knistoff (1948–), painter and writer


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* Lily Garafulic (1914–2012), sculptor * Teresa Gazitúa (born 1941), painter *
Álvaro Guevara Álvaro Guevara Reimers (13 July 1894 – 16 October 1951) was a Chilean-born painter, based in London and loosely associated with the Bloomsbury set. Guevara left Chile in 1909 and arrived in London on 1 January 1910. He attended Bradford Tech ...
(1894–1951), painter * Liliana Wilson Grez (born 1953), painter


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* Laila Havilio (born 1960), sculptor


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(1849–1940), painter *
Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente was a Chilean architect and painter (1931 in Valparaíso, Chile – 2008 in Santiago, Chile). After finishing his studies of architecture at the Catholic University of Valparaiso, Jullian left his country for Eur ...
(1931–2008), architect and painter


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Pedro Lira Pedro Francisco Lira Rencoret (17 May 1845, Santiago de Chile, Santiago – 20 April 1912, Santiago) was a Chilean painter and art critic, who organized exhibitions that led to the establishment of the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts. He ...
(1845–1912), painter


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Roberto Matta Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren (; November 11, 1911 – November 23, 2002), better known as Roberto Matta, was one of Chile's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art. Bio ...
(1911–2002), painter * Rebeca Matte (1875–1929), sculptor * Mariana Matthews (born 1946), photographer, curator, and visual artist * Carlos Maturana (born 1953), artist * Elmina Moisan (1897-1938), painter *
Camilo Mori Camilo Mori Serrano (September 24, 1896 – December 7, 1973) was a Chilean painter and a founder of the '' Grupo Montparnasse''. The son of an Italian immigrant, Camilo Mori entered the "Escuela de Bellas Artes" (School of Fine Arts) at the Univ ...
(1896–1973), painter * Pedro Olmos Muñoz (1911-1991), painter


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* Manuel Ortiz de Zárate (1887–1946), painter


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* Catalina Parra (born 1940), photomontage artist *
Matilde Pérez Matilde Pérez Cerda (December 7, 1916 – October 1, 2014) was a Chilean visual artist who specialised in kinetic art. She was a pioneer of modern and kinetic art in Chile. Her best known public pieces include ''Túnel Cinético'' (Kinetic Tun ...
(1916–2014), kinetic artist *
Henriette Petit Henriette Petit (pseudonym of Ana Enriqueta Petit Marfan; March 3, 1894 - December 9, 1983), was a Chilean painter, member of the Grupo Montparnasse, of which she was a co-founder. Biography Ana Enriqueta Petit Marfan was born in Santiago, March 3 ...
(1894-1983), painter * Christiane Pooley (born 1983), visual artist * Dora Puelma (1898-1972), Chilean painter, sculptor


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* Laura Rodig (1901-1972) painter, sculptor, illustrator, educator * José Manuel Ramírez Rosales (1804–1877), painter and entrepreneur * Alejandra Ruddoff (born 1960), sculptor


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* Cosme San Martín (1850–1906), painter and art teacher * Kamal Siegel (born 1978), digital artist * Pablo Siebel (born 1954), painter *
Carlos Sotomayor Carlos Sotomayor Román (1911–1988) was a Chilean painter, born in La Serena, Chile. He is considered to be one of the principal exponents of the cubism from South America. Early years His father, Carlos Sotomayor Cáceres was a Civil Enginee ...
(1911-1988),
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painter * Francisca Sutil (born 1952), painter


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* Cecilia Vicuña (born 1948) * Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña (1854–1937), painter and diplomat


See also

* List of Chilean women artists *
List of Latin American artists A list of notable Latin American visual artists (painters, sculptors, photographers, video artists, etc.), arranged by nationality: Argentina * Roberto Aizenberg (1928–1996) * Antonio Alice (1886–1943) * Antonio Berni (1905–1981) * De ...
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Culture of Chile The culture of Chile reflects the population and the geographic isolation of the country in relation to the rest of South America. Since colonial times, the Chilean culture has been a mix of Spanish colonial elements with elements of indigenous ( ...
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Chilean art Chilean art refers to all kinds of visual art developed in Chile, or by Chileans, from the Spanish colonization of the Americas, arrival of the Spanish conquerors to the modern day. It also includes the native Pre-Columbian art, pre-Columbian pictor ...


References

{{Artists by nationality Chilean
Artists An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...