Soledad Salame

Chile, 1954

Biographywas born in Santiago, Chile in 1954 and now lives in Baltimore, Maryland. She received a B.A. from Santiago College in 1972 and an M.A. from the Graphic Arts Institute, CONAC Caracas, where she also obtained a certificate in making paper by hand. Her prints, sculpture, drawings, paintings and mixed-media installations have appeared in group exhibitions, biennials, museums and galleries throughout the Americas, and in World's Women On-Line!, an Internet Art Exhibit in conjunction with the 1995 United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing that was displayed worldwide, in Beijing, and at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Salamé also has had solo exhibitions at the Art Museum of the Americas and in galleries in Santiago, New York, Baltimore, Caracas, and Washington, D.C. She has designed the set for a production of Carmen by the Baltimore Opera Company. Her honors include a Special Recognition at the 1982 International Biennial of Graphics, a 1994 Latina Excellence Award from “Hispanic Magazine”, and, in 1996, the largest grant awarded in a decade by the Pollock Krasner Foundation.

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