Raquel Paiewonsky (born 1969) is an artist from the

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Early life and education

Born in Puerto Plata, Paiewonsky graduated in 1991 from the

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in La Romana. The following year she held her first solo exhibition at the Art Nouveau Gallery. She then traveled to

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, where she lived and worked for a decade, studying at

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. After returning to the

she settled in

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Career

Stylistically, Paiewonsky produces art across a range of disciplines and media, including painting, sculpture, and photography. She has exhibited work in many venues both in the Dominican Republic and abroad, in solo and group shows, and has been included in the National Visual Arts Biennial of Santo Domingo on multiple occasions. She received the Gran Premio Eduardo León award for her work in 2006, 2008, and 2012. Among the collections featuring her work are the Daros-Latinoamérica, Zürich; the

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, Rhode Island;

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, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; and the Centro León, Santiago, Dominican Republic. She is also a co-founder of the art collective Quintipata, which includes Pascal Meccariello,

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, and Belkis Ramírez in its ranks. Paiewonsky had an exhibition of her mixed media work on breasts at the UMD Gallery in 2019. Paiewonsky described how her work inquired into how changing cultural structures and stereotypes impacted human bodies and capacities for being.

Personal life

Trained as a vegetarian chef as well as an artist, she is married with two sons. With her sister she owns a number of businesses in the Dominican Republic.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Paiewonsky, Raquel 1969 births Living people 20th-century Dominican Republic painters 20th-century Dominican Republic artists Dominican Republic women painters 21st-century painters 21st-century women artists Dominican Republic people of Lithuanian descent People from Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic Parsons School of Design alumni White Dominicans 20th-century women painters