Delfina Bernal (born 1941 in

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) is a Colombian painter and multimedia artist.

Life

Delfina Bernal studied painting and sculpture at the Escuela de las Bellas Artes in Barranquilla, Colombia. She studied with the institute's director

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and teachers Marie Claire de Andreis, Freda Sargent de Obregón, and María Luisa Andino de Lopez. She studied engraving with Ben Bianchi at the

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in the 1970s. She was a founding member in 1973 of “Grupo 44”, along with Álvaro Herazo, Eduardo Hernandez, Victor Sanchez, Fernando Cepeda, Jairo Quintero and Christiane Lesueur. Their work culminated in the exhibition ''La fotografía como documento en el arte conceptual de Barranquilla,'' curated by Alvaro Barrios, where Bernal exhibited her work ''Declaración de amor a Jeff Perrone''. She has lived for two periods of her work and life in the United States. The first from 1968 to 1973 in

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, and from 1981 to the present in

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. She continues to work in several mediums including painting, etchings, collage, digital prints and photography.

Exhibitions and awards

* 1964: First Intercol Salon of Young Artists of 1964, Third Prize Acquisition * 1964: Colombia Esso Salon, Second Honorable Mention * 1980: The Photograph as Document in Conceptual art from Barranquilla * 2017
Radical Women

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, University of California Los Angeles * 2018
Radical Women

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References

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