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She studied for a
degree in
art at the
University of Chile.[1][3] Her work is characterized by urban and reflexive subjects "both on the problem of dynamic displacement of the city, insecurity, abandonment and destruction, and the means of representation of the pictorial image with all the facilities and difficulties that the modern artist must take into account when creating the work." In addition she has incorporated digital technology as a representational tool in her work.[1][4]
In 2008, she won an award from the Circle of Critics of Art of Chile for the exhibition Plague (2008) in the visual arts category.[5] In 2011, she received a nomination for the
Altazor Award in the media arts category for Project Dislocación.Library of the No - History of Chile.[6]
She participated in several individual and collective exhibitions during her career, among them the 5th
Havana Biennial (1997), the 3rd Biennial of the Mercosur in Carry Cheerful (2001), Without Fear Neither Hope in the Regional Museum of
Ancud (2004), Residence in the Valley in the Museum of Visual arts of Santiago (2005), the exhibitions Painting Mural/The Place of Rancagua, Young Art in Chile 1986 - 1996 and Chile Austria in the
National Museum of Fine arts of Chile (1994, 1997 and 2000 respectively), Paris-Santiago, The Genius of the Bastilla in the
Museum of Contemporary Art of Santiago (1999), among other exhibitions in Chile,
Latin America,
Canada,
United States and
Europe.[1][7][8][9][10][11][12]
References
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abcdBiblioteca del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (ed.).
"Voluspa Jarpa (1971-)". APCh, Artistas plásticos chilenos. Retrieved 2013-06-24.
^Tala, Alexia (20 July 2011).
"Entrevista a Voluspa Jarpa". Artishock, Revista de Arte Contemporáneo. Archived from
the original on 23 April 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2013.