Angélica Turner (b. 1989, Chile) is a visual artist currently living in Chicago. Her studio practice is always mutating, allowing new inspiration and life events to impact on it.
“My work results from an intuitive painting process that aims to reconcile contradictory forces. Through multiple editions I create heavily layered canvases, intricate weave elements inspired in the beauty and resilience of the organic world, as well as gestures that evoque the constant social chaos we live among and are exposed through unlimited digital sources. I’m interested in the internal mental toll this generates, and the tension and the daze we collectively experience.
My paintings seek to have an expansive and embracing quality, lots of movement and to be atmospheric. they are sort of blurry landscapes and at the end they mix my own search for identity and the place I stand in this world.”
Education
2011
BFA, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
2012
Postgraduate in Art Education, Universidad de Los Andes, Santiago, Chile.
Selected Exhibitions
2024
Embodied Perspectives, Alma Rise, San Francisco, CA.
Women Rising, The Drawing Room, San Francisco, CA.
(Three person show) Flexible Hours, Wave Collective Space, San Francisco, CA.
2023
(Solo) After the storm, Firehouse Arts Center, Pleasanton, CA.
(Solo) Being Here / Being Everywhere, Retreat Studios, San Francisco, CA.
Root Division's Annual Auction, Root Division, San Francisco, CA.
Refussés of the Bay, Voss Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Rebirth, WAVE Collective Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Tending Gardens / Fertile Grounds, Root Division, San Francisco, CA.
More is More, Hot House Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
WAVE Group Show, WAVE Collective Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2022
Root Division’s 21st Annual Auction, Root Division, San Francisco, CA.
Unfurl, 80 Albion, San Francisco, CA.
RD Makes, Root Division, San Francisco, CA.
2021
(Solo) Navigating the Unexpected, curated by 4B Art Department, The Mill, San Francisco, CA.
(Solo) Slate Art Gallery Off-Site Exhibition, 555 City Center, Oakland, CA.
RD Makes, Root Division, San Francisco, CA.
Root Division’s 20th Annual Auction, Root Division, San Francisco, CA.
ArtAuction21: Reconnecting in Resilience, SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco, CA.
Taste, Root Division, San Francisco, CA.
2020
RD Makes, Root Division, San Francisco, CA.
Future Tense, Drawing Room Annex, San Francisco, CA.
RD Makes, Root Division, San Francisco, CA.
Root Division’s 19th Annual Auction, Root Division, San Francisco, CA.
Women Rising, Drawing Room Annex, San Francisco, CA.
2019
(Solo) Her Turbulence, Frank Ratchye Studio Artist Project Space, curated by Alicia McDaniel, Root Division, San Francisco, CA.
Reflexions from Exile, curated by Jaenette Alanis, Root Division, San Francisco, CA.
RD Makes, curated by Samantha Reynolds, Root Division, San Francisco, CA.
Root Division’s 18th Annual Auction, Root Division, San Francisco, CA.
Scintilla Art Box Project, curated by Sarah E. Swist, Hastings College, Hastings, NE.
LA Artcore 5th Annual Juried Exhibit, The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA.
SNAP!, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Awarded as one of the ten works with highest combined juror points.
2018
6x6 Be There Be Square, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA.
2017
(Solo) Después de la Lluvia, Teatro de Zapallar, Chile.
(Solo) Naturaleza Progresiva, Centro Cívico de Vitacura, Santiago, Chile.
Awards / Residencies
2023
Residency at MAM Chiloé (Museum of Modern Art), Chiloé, Chile.
2019-2022
Studio Artist, Root Division, San Francisco, CA.
2011
Merit Scholarship Vocación Profesor (Teacher Vocation) given by MINEDUC, Santiago, Chile.
BFA, graduated with two votes of distinction, Santiago, Chile.
Further Education
2019
Attendance to the course “Pics or it didn’t happen” by Alex Arzt at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
2019
Attendance to the course “The Structured Accident” by Allison Miller at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
2013
Certificate of Attendance to “Drawing London on Location” at Central Saint Martin`s College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts London, UK.
Certificate of Attendance to the course “Introduction to the History of Art” at Central Saint Martin’s College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts London, UK.
Press
2023
Hyperallergic, “A View From the Easel”, Lakshmi Rivera Amin, March 16, 2023. https://hyperallergic.com/805446/a-view-from-the-easel-209/
Pleasanton Weekly, “The emotions of Nature ‘After the Storm’”, Jeremy Walsh, March 2, 2023.
https://www.pleasantonweekly.com/ae/2023/03/02/the-emotions-of-nature-after-the-storm/
2020
Local News Matter, “Reflecting on our times through art”, Gina Gotsill, September 17, 2020.
https://localnewsmatters.org/2020/09/17/reflecting-on-our-times-through-art/
Teaching and related work
2019-2020
Root Division Adult Education Oil Painting 101, San Francisco, CA.
Root Division Adult Education Oil Painting Nature+Landscape, San Francisco, CA.
Volunteering Art Classes, Sanchez Elementary School, through the Root Division Youth Ed Program, San Francisco, CA.
2017-2018
Colegio Huelén, Santiago, Chile.
2018 Head Teacher 12th Grade.
Senior High School Teacher: Art History, Contemporary Art, Drawing and Painting.
Art Teacher Elementary School and High School.
Arts and Crafts workshop for pre-school, After School Program.
2017
After School Program Villa María Academy, Watercolor Classes, Santiago, Chile.
Biblioteca Escolar Futuro volunteering: Drawing Workshops at different places, including Santiago’s Penitentiary Center for Women and Youth Correctional Facility, Santiago, Chile.
2014-2016
Centro Educacional San Esteban Mártir, Santiago, Chile.
Art Teacher Middle and High School, 70% students from underprivileged backgrounds.
2016 9th grade Head Teacher.
Drawing and painting Workshops, After School Program.