Evangelina Elizondo - Artist
"I'm an artist, curator and art educator with more than 20 years of experience. I feel the responsibility to create visual object that engages issues of our time."
I’m from Argentina but I'm currently living in Florence where I moved in 2017 after twenty years in the United States.
My expertise as an artist, art educator and curator is based on extensive research on the connection between art and social issues and on the importance of art as a communication tool to create awareness about global issues and to give intelligible form and meaning to personal experience.
I’m working on a series of objects and installations highlighting one of the most pressing ethical issues of our time: recycling multiple materials as a global concern.
My last series of works plays an important role in my career as an artist. I have used installations, (different materials, photographs, objects and spatial design) to represent the impact of health issues, the health care system, the waste of medical supplies and the general need for recycling in the society at large.
I’ve been woking in the recycling of paper winning Sustainability and Art, RRR Paper as Art and Design, Arte Laguna Prize, Venezia, 2016 and the piece is with The World Bank Art Collection in Washington DC.
In 2015 I was “Semifinalist, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2016”, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
I've exhibited in Argentina, Italy and United States including exhibitions at Centro Cultural Borges in Argentina and the Inter American Development Bank in Washington DC.
I have studied Fine Arts in Buenos Aires with a field of concentration in painting, from the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredon, where I studied drawing, painting and engraving, as well as sculpture and art restoration.