Victoria Civera Redondo (born 1955) is a Spanish artist. She combines photography, painting, installation and sculpture in her

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works. She lives between New York City and Saro in

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, Spain. Her work has been shown internationally, including in the United States, Belgium, France and Brazil.

Biography

Victoria Civera Redondo was born in 1955 in Puerto de Sagunto in

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, Spain. Civera studied at the

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, between 1973 and 1977. She is married to artist

Juan Uslé Juan Uslé Oceja (born 1954) is a Spanish contemporary painter. His work varies between abstraction and figurative representation. In 2002, he received the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas, a national arts prize awarded by the Ministerio d ...

, whom she has occasionally worked together with. Together they have a daughter, Vicky Uslé (born 1981) who is also a painter. Civera's first solo exhibition was held at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Santander (now

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) in 1980. Since 1987, she lives with her family between New York City and Saro, Cantabria. Her artwork find personal meaning in the use and imagery of inanimate objects and repeating shapes. Some of her work explores space and volume; and will experiment with form both on and off canvas. In 2017, Civera was awarded the Tomás Francisco Prieto Prize.

References

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