Lorena Olivares was born in 1973 in Santiago de Chile.

She studied at the Fine Arts Academy, Universidad de Chile between 1991 and 1995, in 1997 she got her title as a sculptor. Since 1997 she works as a freelance artist.

Her art work is mainly developed in two areas: large scale works related with the interaction between sculpture, landscape and viewer; and smaller and intimist works.

She mixes different materials such as steel, molten metals, wood, clay and stone.

Currently she lives and works in Cajon del Maipo, Santiago Andean area. Chile.

www.lorenaolivares.cl

Simposia since 2011

2017 Artist Residency. Steel Sculpture. Río de Janeiro. Brasil.

2017 3rd Casa Design International Sculpture Symposium. Bolivia.

2016 10th Ubon International Wax Festival. Thailand.

2016  3rd International Sculpture Symposium Ayia Napa. Cyprus.

2015  X International Sculpture Symposium Rheinland Pfalz. Germany.

2015  IV International Sculpture Symposium Santa María. Brazil.

2015  V International Sculpture Symposium Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Bolivia.

2015  1st International Sculpture Symposium Pirque. (Organizer) Santiago. Chile.

2015  1^st Sculpture Symposium Corral. Chile.

2014  17^th International Stone Sculpture Symposium Friuli Venecia Giulia. Italy.

2014  1^st International Sculpture Symposium Pucón. Chile.

2014  1^st International Sculpture Symposium Collipulli. Chile.

2014  8^th International Sculpture Symposium Llanquihue. Chile.

2013  3^th International Sculpture Symposium Concordia. Argentina.

2011  6^th Internacional Sculpture Symposium Llanquihue. Chile

Exhibitions since 2011

2018 “From the Earth” Tierra del Fuego Gallery. Punta Arenas. Patagonia. Chile.

2017 “Itinerant Sculpture Festival” Museu Nacional da República. Brasilia. Brasil.

2016 “Matter and Color” Titanium Building. Santiago. Chile.

2015 “Stand up for Sculpture” Human Solutions Pre Park, Kaiserslautern. Germany.

2015  “Origin and Convergence” Galería Mundo Sur. Santiago. Chile.

2014  “Bozzetti” Palazzo Frangipane Tarcento. Friuli. Italy.

2013  “Epicentro” Galería Sérvulo Gutiérrez. Lima. Perú.

2012  “Steel” Centro Cívico de Las Condes. Santiago. Chile.

2011  “Chilean Women in sculpture”. Sculpture Park. Santiago. Chile.

Awards

2015  2nd Sculpture Award. Maipo Visual Arts Prize. Chile.

2011  1st Sculpture Award. Maipo Visual Arts Prize. Chile.

2011  2nd Award. 6th Internacional Sculpture Simposium Llanquihue. Chile

2010  1st Award. National Contest of Monumental Sculpture. Llanquihue. Chile.

2008  1st Award. Public Art Contest. Perquenco. Chile.

2003  Sculptor´s Award. 7th Internacional Sculpture Simposium Valdivia. Chile.

2002  “Urban Edge Sculpture”. Fondart Scholarship. La Pintana. Chile.

2002  1st Award. 50th Anniversary Mural. Faculty of Forest Engineering. Universidad de Chile.

2000  “Urban Collective Sculptures – Action two”. Fondart Scholarship. Recoleta. Chile.

1999  “Urban Collective Sculptures Proyect”. Fondart Scholarship. Conchalí, Chile.