ELISA ARCHER

Biography


 

Born in 1949 San Salvador, El Salvador

STUDIES
1966-1967 Studies in the "Academy of Valero Lecha" (Spanish painter and master)Studies
Theater in CENAR San Salvador. El Salvador
1967 Studies Painting in Lausanne Switzerland
1969 Studies in the "Kunst und Malerei Schule" in Munich, Germany.Realizes experimental videos with group Kollectif fur Gesselschaftlihe Arbeit . Participates in Hamburg. Experimental videos Festival
1973 -1974 Realizes a Serigraphy course in the University of Bournemouth in England
1999 Realizes drawing workshop at the (ENSBA) Ecole Nationale Superieure de Beaux Arts in Paris, France

INDIVIDUAL ART EXHIBITS
1) "Teatro Presidente" patronized by CONCULTURA.The funds were given to FUSATES FOR AGED MEN. 1996 El Salvador.
2) Galeria 1-2-3 September 1998 "My two Worlds"
3) L'ARP Authors AssociationDirector and Producers of Cinema in PARIS, France. July 8, 1999 "Tropic I"
4) El Salvador Embassy in Brussels,Belgium, September 15,1999 "Tropic II"
5) Maison de L'Amerique Latine in Brussels, Belgium, October 27 1999
6) Art Gallery of the Cultural Center of the Spanish Embassy, San Salvador, El Salvador July 2000
7) Ephemeral Art Exhibit "Evento ASOSAL" David J. Guzman Museum, September 2000
8) In progress "Pro Earthquake" Exhibit in the San Francisco Bay Area California "Women in Dreams" June 2001
9) Individual Art Exhibit in the Sonoma Foie Gras Headquarters, Sonoma California 2001 funds for The Franciscan Nuns and their charitable work.
10) Galeria Vilanova "Video-Art Instalation" 2003, San Salvador , El Salvador
11) German School  "Travelling Expressions" San Salvador, El Salvador 2005



COLLECTIVE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITS
1) Biennal of Galleries Guatemala City, Guatemala 1996
2) Third Central American and Caribbean Biennal in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 1996
3) Second Latin American exhibit of Miniprint in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina 1997
4) FUSAL Public Auction in Miami 1997
5) Central American Art Exhibit", Galería Tríos" Tegucigalpa, Honduras
6) Galería Plástica Contemporánea, Guatemala "Central American Painters
7) Taipei ,Taiwán Painting Exposition of Nine Salvadoran Women
FIRST GLOBAL ART EXHIBITION Chinese International Association of Fine Arts and El Salvador Embassy, Taiwan
Exhibition at Art Gallery of SUN YAT SEN MEMORIAL Taipei, Taiwan
8) "Ixchel Museum", Guatemala, Guatemala Plastic Artwork threw the 21st Century
9) Latin American Art Exhibit"Cacao Museum" Brussels, Belgium 1999
10) "Vermillion Art Gallery" Sonoma,California 2001
11) Collective Art Exhibit of Salvadorian Painters in Mexico D.F. Mexico 2001, organized by Galeria 1-2-3
12) Auction Pro Earthquake , Donation, organized by Vilanova FineArt
13) Auction "Fernando Duran" Art Auction House, Madrid, Spain for The Foundation Padre Arrupe School for Salvadorian Youth, art was a donation. 2002
14) Private Exhibitions in San Francisco, California 2002
15) Video-Art piece selected to be shown at the First Latin American and Caribbean Video Art Competition and Exhibit, in Washington IDB and several internactinal modern Art Museums 2002-03
16) Private Exhitions in San Francisco, and Bay Area California 2003.
17) MUSEO DE ARTE SAN SALVADOR
50 Video Art of Latin American artists including Sunflower Paper of Elisa Archer
18) "The Good and the Wrong" Museo David J. Guzmán Organized by the Israely Community, San Salvador 2004
19) Berlin, Germany International Nations Day, Embassy of El Salvador 2004
20) Galería 91 San Salvador 2004
21) Galeria 91 small format 2004
22) Galería 1-2-3, Galería La Pinacoteca San Salvador, Galería Imagen ciudad de Panama 2004
23) "Drei Linden" Wetzikon, Zurich, Switzerland 2005
24) "IILA" Italian Latinamerican Institute  8 Salvadorian Painters Rome, Italy 2005.

IMPORTANT COLLECTIONS
1- "Roque Dalton Museum" National University , El Salvador
2- Banco Cuscatlán, El Salvador
3-Banco Central de Reserva, El Salvador
4-Banco Agrícola Comercial, El Salvador
5-El Salvador Embassy in Brussels, Belgium
6-El Salvador Embassy in Paris, France
7- Museum "Maison de l'Amerique Latine" Brussels, Belgium
8- Museum Forma Julia Díaz Foundation, San Salvador, El Salvador
9-Video-Art"Paper Sunflower",Collection of the IBD Inter-American
Development Bank ,Washington D.C.

Bibliography
1-Front Page of the Magazine PANORAMICA LATINOAMERICANA (May 2002) Brussels, Belgium
2-Magazine Bulletin Activities of "Casa de la America Latina"Brussels, Belgium 1999
3-In Salvadorian and International Newspapers and magazines
4-"Plastica Contemporánea" Salvadorian art book by Arch. Salazar Retana
5-Front Page of Calendar PNUD / PMA 2000
6-Banco Cuscatlan Artbook of its Collection 2000
7-6 pages text, written by Art Critic BELGICA RODRIGUEZ "The Still Life: Metaphisic among the sacred and the profane".2002

AWARDS
1- 1989 "Young Talent of the Year"
2- 2003 HONORABLE MENTION by the First Festival of Video in El Salvador
3- 2005 "El Salvador Oggi" Accademia Internazionale Citta di Roma, Rome, Italy



CULTURAL WORK
1- Board of directors of ADAPES 1992
2- Support to ADAPES 1993-94
3- Organization of Art Exhibit "Homage to Julia Diaz" 1991
4- Donation to Fusate(Association of Elder and homeless people) in Individual Art Exhibit 1996
5- International Art Exhibits representing El Salvador
6- Association of Salvadoran women in the Arts 2000
7- Donating several art work pieces and video-art pieces for Cultural and Charity Proyects. Until this moment 2003.
8- Several Cultural collective Art Exhibits in Art galleries , Museums, and Cultural Spaces:Schools etc.

 

 
     

Elisa Archer
Tel.: 503 2243-9810
Celular: 503 7741-9495

elisa_archer@yahoo.es
izarcher@telesal.net


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