Graciela Arias

Born in Ayacucho, Peru, 1978. She has lived since she was little in the city of Pucallpa (Ucayali, Amazonas, Peru) in contact with nature. He studied at the Eduardo Mesa Sarabia Higher School of Artistic Training in Pucallpa, graduating in 2001. Since then, he has dedicated himself to painting and disseminating Amazonian culture. He has participated in multiple group exhibitions at the national and international level, and has held three individual exhibitions, the most recent being "A Lunch in the Countryside" at the Alliance Française in Miraflores, Lima; among others are “Maker of Dreams”, Room 770 Municipal Gallery Ricardo Palma and “Vírgenes del Ucayali” ICPNA of Miraflores. Among her merits is the second prize for Amazonian contemporary art and an honorable mention in the BCR Contemporary Art Competition - 2014. Likewise, she was selected by the Peruvian Chapter of Women to Watch under the curatorial assistance of Giuliana Vidarte to participate in the exhibition that took place last April at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington. Currently a complete set of 8 machetes is part of the collection of the Inter-American Development Bank - IDB.
Graciela Arias is considered one of the most important representatives of contemporary Peruvian Amazonian painting.