Paula Otegui

(Buenos Aires, 1974) Lives and works in Buenos Aires.

She has a degree in Visual Arts (IUNA) / National Professor of Painting and Engraving (IUNA).

Her work has been selected by various juries and she has participated in group exhibitions, among others: Horizonte Vazado: Latin American Artists at the Edge, Instituto Cervantes de San Pablo; National Hall of Painting Fundación Banco Nación de la Argentina, National House of the Bicentennial, Buenos Aires; Klemm Foundation Award, at the Klemm Foundation, Buenos Aires; El Cambio, Latin American and Caribbean Artists, World Bank Artists Program, Washington, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; 50th Anniversary Exhibition of the National Arts Fund, Casa de la Cultura, Bs. As .; 25 years of democracy Show tribute. Pink House. Bs. As .; National Salon of Visual Arts, Palais de Glace. Bs. As .; Ibero-American Painting Contest, Aerolineas Argentinas, MNBA Bs. As .; Bonifacio del Carril Stimulus Award, National Academy of Fine Arts, Borges Cultural Center. Bs. As.

In 2015 she participates in the Beijing Biennial, representing Argentina, which is held at the National Museum of Art of China.

Paula has obtained National Awards and distinctions, among others: First Prize National Biennial of Drawing Franklin Rawson San Juan Museum; Arco Madrid Fair Residence Grant at Casa de Velazquez, National Endowment for the Arts; First Prize in the Visual Arts Drawing and Painting Contest, FNA, Casa Victoria Ocampo. FNA Plastic Arts Grant; Mention Painting National Salon of Visual Arts, Palais de Glace; Cultural Equality Award, National House of the Bicentennial; First Prize Young Artist Banco Central de La República Argentina, MNBA, Bs. As .; Young Talent Grand Prize in the 3rd Edition of the UADE University Painting Prize, Metropolitan Museum, Bs. As .; 1st Prize for Positive Culture, Painting, Fundación Hupedes and Secretariat of Culture, Buenos Aires; 1st Prize Stimulus for Young Painters Hebraica 2007, Metropolitan Museum, Buenos Aires; Mention in the Painting category at the National Salon of Visual Arts, Palais de Glace, BA. As., Mention Itaú Cultural Award, among others.

Recently (2013-2014) she has obtained the subsistence scholarship granted by the Pollock-Krasner NY Foundation, the scholarship of the Metropolitan Fund of Arts and Sciences granted by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires. In 2015 she received the Grant for group projects and the 2015 National Plastic Arts Grant, both awarded by the National Fund for the Arts.

Her works are part of institutional collections in Argentina: Central Bank of the Argentine Republic, Sociedad Hebraica, UADE University, Copime and Isev.

And in other countries: National Museum of Art of China and Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University Milwaukee, USA.

Also from private collections in Argentina, Paraguay, Spain, Colombia, USA, Italy, England.