| Gonzalo was born in 1980 in Quilpué, Chile. |
| He currently lives and works in Berlin and in Chile. |
| ARTIST EDUCATION | ||
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| 2000- | 2004 | Degree in Fine Arts, specialization in painting at the School of Fine Arts of Valparaíso, Chile |
| 2000- | 2003 | Graduate Assistant Instructor in Fine Arts in painting at the School of Fine Arts of Valparaíso, Chile |
| 2013- | 2014 | Diplome of Programmation of Communication and Information Systems, Strasbourg University, France |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selection) | ||
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| 2023 | CIELO ROJO Y VERDE Y AZUL, solo show at Parque Cultural Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile | |
| SKY IS FALLING ASLEEP ON THE DESK OF THE TIME, solo show at Galerie Peter Gaugy, Vienna, Austria | ||
| 2022 | NOCTURNOS, solo show at Gallerie Gilla Lörcher, Berlin, Germany | |
| CIELO & BITS, solo show at KSTN – Kastanien Projektraum, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2018 | RGB PAINTINGS, solo show at Gallerie Gilla Lörcher, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2017 | FOREIGN SKY, solo show at Asia Contemporary Art Platform NON BERLIN, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2014 | GAPE – 02, LIGHTHEART, Plateau Gallery, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2012 | Matter – Light – Time, Pantocrator Gallery, Shanghai, China | |
| 2011 | Transmutation – Rencontre, Maison de l’Amérique latine, Brussels, Belgium | |
| 2006 | Dimensiones Abstractas, Balmaceda 1215 Cultural Centre, Valparaíso, Chile (Cat.) | |
| Y Dios creó la célula…y la célula la imagen, exhibition at the Antesala Viña gallery, Viña del Mar, Chile (Cat.) |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selection) | ||
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| 2023 | WEAVING MEMORIES at NADAN Berlin, Germany | |
| DE/CIPHER, GKG, Bonn, Germany | ||
| DE/CIPHER, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||
| Paper Positions Berlin, Art Fair Gallerie Gilla Lörcher, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2022 | Natura Ex Machina, screening at Venice Arsenale, curated by Celyn Bricker, hosted by Continuous Regeneration, Venice, Italy | |
| Chilean Conexión, Festival of Arts, Berlin, Germany | ||
| Corresponsal Extranjero Museo Baburizza, Fine Art School of Valparaíso, Chile | ||
| DECEMBER’S CHILDREN (AND EVERYBODY’S), LAGE EGAL, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2021 | SWAB Barcelona Art Fair LAGE EGAL, Barcelona, Spain | |
| naturae, Galerie Peter Gaugy, Vienna, Austria | ||
| Chilean Conexion, Chilean Art Festival Berlin, at Monopol Berlin, Germany | ||
| SMALL WONDERS, Galleie Gilla Lörcher, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2020 | L’ARTISTE ET LES COMMISSAIRES, LAGE EGAL, Berlin, Germany | |
| Berlin Banlieue Lage Egal, AUKTIONSHAUS JESCHKE VAN VLIET, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2019 | LAGE EGAL [FLARE OF FRANKFURT] at Paper Position, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| AUGMENTED DREAMS, at Kunstquartier Bethanien/Projektraum, Berlin, Germany | ||
| CHILEAN CONEXIÓN, GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany | ||
| BEHIND THE SCREEN, at KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, Germany | ||
| ALL OUT “SMALL”, at KWADRAT, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2018 | DEMI-GROS, at Safe Gallery, Berlin, Germany | |
| H0, at SACO7 Festival, Sala Chela Lira, U. Catolica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile | ||
| NO PLACE / LIKE HOME, at GLINT Berlin, Berlin, Germany | ||
| WASTING TIME – Vol. 1 The Nature Edition, at Objekte Unserer Tage, Berlin, Germany | ||
| EXPERIMENT, at Voodoo55, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2017 | SOCIAL GEOMETRISM, KASK 2017, Berlin, Germany | |
| DIFFERENT SIMILARITIES, duo show with Carla Bertone, Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin, Germany | ||
| THRESHOLDS, duo show with Juan Varela, Meinblau Projektraum, Berlin, Germany | ||
| AUTREMER, Centre Socio Culturel Pôle Sud, Lausanne, Switzerland | ||
| 2016 | archiMEDIAL, Media Exhibition, Schöneweide Art Festival, Berlin, Germany | |
| RENAISSANCE, Lighthaus Berlin, Funkhaus Nalepasetasse, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2015 | Final_draft.mov, Geumcheon Art Apace Seoul, Korea | |
| Losito Kunstpreis 2015, Löwenpalais Lounge der Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany (Cat.) | ||
| Velada Remix 2015, art festival, Hamburg, Germany | ||
| Zentralestation, Kunst am Spreeknie 2015 – Schöneweide Art Festival, Berlin, Germany | ||
| Postinternet is dead, Fisher Gallery at Oberlin College, Ohio, USA | ||
| 2014 | Swab Barcelona, International Contemporary Art Fair, Pantocrator Gallery, Barcelona, Spain | |
| 1st Shandong Biennale, Mass Art Museum, Jinan, China (Cat.) | ||
| Umschalten, Schalterraum, Berlin, Germany | ||
| Sunland, Pantocrator Gallery at EBPC, Shanghai, China | ||
| Paint like you mean it, painting prize, final shortlist, Interviewroom 11, Edinburgh, Scotland (Cat.) | ||
| Spark, new medias art exhibition, Kunst am Spreeknie Schöneweide Art Festival, Berlin, Germany | ||
| Zentralestation, Kunst am Spreeknie 2014 – Schöneweide Art Festival, Berlin, Germany | ||
| Digital zur Malerei Dialog der Medien prize, final shortlist, Sparkasse, Karlsruhe, Germany | ||
| 2013 | Screen Festival Barcelona, Pantocrator Gallery, Barcelona, Spain | |
| Zendai Himalayas center, Pantocrator Gallery, Shanghai, China | ||
| Aktuelle Selbstportraits, Nachbarschaftsgalerie, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2012 | PrismeS, KARTüche gallery, Berlin, Germany (duo show with Kerstin Heller) | |
| Pantocrátor Gallery at Amsterdam Showcase, Netherlands | ||
| Retro-perspective, KARTüche gallery, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2011 | P,P & F, Maison du Vallon, Lausanne, Switzerland | |
| Artist Project, 15th anniversary of ILES, La Lustrerie, Brussels, Belgium | ||
| Art’page 2010, Glarey castel, Sierre, Switzerland | ||
| 2010 | International Painting and Mixed Media Competition, Lessedra gallery, Bulgaria | |
| 2009 | Viña del Mar National Painting Prize, final shortlist, Enjoy gallery Viña del Mar, Chile | |
| Juan Francisco González painting prize, final shortlist, House of Culture of Limache, Chile | ||
| 2008 | Dessinateurs de demain, BD-Fil Festival, Lausanne, SwitzerlandUn espace dédié à l’art, Echanden’s Castle, Switzerland | |
| Un espace dédié à l’art, Echanden’s Castle, Switzerland | ||
| 2007 | Exhibition tribute to José Maria Sert, Spanish Book, Unites Nation’s Palace, Geneva, Switzerland (Cat.) | |
| 2006 | XXIV Valdivia y su río national painting prize, final shortlist, Valdivia, Chile | |
| Corral y su bahía painting prize, Honorary Award, Corral, Chile | ||
| 2005 | XXVII Arte y Poesía Joven art prize, final shortlist, University of Valparaíso, Farol gallery, Valparaíso, Chile (Cat.) | |
| Viña del Mar National Painting Prize, final shortlist, Enjoy gallery Viña del Mar, Chile | ||
| Juan Francisco González, painting prize, Honorary Award, House of Culture of Limache, Chile | ||
| 100 monedas de 100, action of public art, Latin American Art Week (SELAI), Valparaíso, Chile | ||
| 2004 | Pequeño Formato prize, final shortlist, Balmaceda 1215, to Valparaíso and Viña del Mar, Chile | |
| Murales por la paz, meeting mural painting for the centenary of Christ Re deemer, Mendoza, Argentina | ||
| Mural painting, Ex-Cárcel Cultural Park with Marcelino Truong, Lire en Fête festival, Valparaíso, Chile | ||
| 2003 | Mi Ciudad, art prize, final shortlist, Municipal Gallery of Valparaiso, Chile | |
| XXV Arte y Poesía Joven art prize, final shortlist, Farol gallery, University of Valparaíso, Chile (Cat.) | ||
| Casablanca…250 años de historia, art prize, final shortlist, Casablanca, Chile | ||
| 2002 | Mi Ciudad, art prize, final shortlist, Municipal Gallery of Valparaiso, Chile | |
| 2001 | Pequeño Formato, art prize, final shortlist, Balmaceda 1215, to Valparaíso and Viña del Mar, Chile |
| PRIZES AND FELLOWSHIPS | ||
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| 2023 | National Cultural Founds, Fondart – BITMAP POEMARIUM, Chile | |
| 2022 | German Ferderal Grant, NEUSTARTplus-Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany | |
| National Cultural Founds, Fondart Regional – Línea de Actividades Formativas Convocatoria 2022, H Residency, Calama, Chile | ||
| 2021 | RECHERCHESTIPENDIUM, Artist Grant awarded by the Berlin Senat for Visual Arts, Berlin, Germany | |
| BBK Studio Commissioner for Berlin Based Arttists, Berlin, Gerany | ||
| 2020 | National Center of Contemporary Art, Acquisition of Artworks for the National Collection, Santiago, Chile | |
| 2020 | Fondo de las Culturas, Fondart Regional – Línea de Actividades Formativas Convocatoria 2020,H Residency, Calama, Chile | |
| 2015 | Art residency grant at Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul Fundation for Arts and Culture, Korea | |
| 2011 | Prix Découverte, Commission for Assistance to the comic book of the French community of Belgium | |
| 2006 | Honorary Award, II Corral y su bahía painting prize, Corral, Chile | |
| 2005 | Honorary Award, VI Juan Francisco González painting prize, Limache, Chile | |
| 2004 | First prize, mural painting competition Todos contra el muro, Ex-Cárcel Cultural Park, Valparaíso, Chile | |
| 2001- | 2004 | Scholarship, Degree in Fine Arts, School of Fine Arts of Valparaíso, Chile |
| RESIDENCIES | ||
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| 2018 | H – Residency, in the frame of SACO7 Festival, Calama, Chile (2 months) | |
| 2015 | Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul Fundation for Arts and Culture, Korea (3 months) | |
| 2012 | Pantocrátor Gallery, Shanghai, China (3 months) | |
| 2010 | Art’page, Chalet à Goblet, Switzerland |
| PUBLICATIONS | ||
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| 2023 | BITMAP POEMARIUM, conseptual book of poems, Berlin, April 2023 | |
| Paper Positions Art Fair, Catalogue, Berlin (DE) | ||
| Susannah Cremer-Bermbach, De/Cipher, Zum semiotischen Wechselspiel zwischen Ver- und Entschlüsselung von Zeichen und Symbolen und ihrer Übersetzung in Information, Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung e. V. Consulado de Chile en Austria, «Exposicion en Viena del artista Chileno Gonzalo Reyes Araos», online, https:// www.chile.gob.cl/austria/noticias/exposicion-en-viena-del-artista-chileno-gonzalo-reyes | ||
| María Andrea Muñoz, Cultura Latina Magazine, «Explorando Recuerdos individuales», online, https://www. culturalatina.at/es/arte/item/1836-entrevista-a-gonzalo-reyes-araos | ||
| Susannah Cremer-Bermbach, De/cipher, gkg e.V., Bonn, May 2023 | ||
| 2020 | H Residency, El Arte Contemporáneo Reside en el Desierto, Calama, Diciembre 2020 | |
| 2019 | El Mostrador Cultura, Chilean Conexión: artistas chilenos en Berlín, El Mostrador, Santiago, Septiembre 2019. | |
| Camila Molina, GONZALO REYES ARAOS | RGB Paintings, Revista Esbozo, SISTEMA. Editoral Ojo Ahí, Valparaíso, July 2019, 8 – 13. | ||
| 2018 | Alejandra Villasmil, Gonzalo Reyes Araos | PORTAFOLIO, Artishock Magazine, Santiago, August 2018 | |
| Gonzalo Reyes Araos, Constelaciones en un cielo forastero, SACO7 Origen y mito, Antofagasta, December 2018, 142 – 145. | ||
| Gonzalo Reyes Araos, HO, SACO7 Origen y mito, Antofagasta, December 2018, 66 – 68. | ||
| Peter Ungeheuer, DEMI-GROS, Catalog, Berlin, August 2018. | ||
| Extra Noticias, Artistas nacionales y extranjeros exponen en Antofagasta, Antofagasta, 30th July 2018. | ||
| El Mensajero, Con una contundente programación inauguraron el Festival de Arte Contemporáneo SACO7 Origen y mito, Antofagasta, 25th July 2018. | ||
| Catherine Marshall, Like Home, Elsewhere, A Journal of Place, Berlin, 5th July 2018 | ||
| “Einblick (716): Gonzalo Reyes Araos, Künstler”, Taz Tageszeitung, taz plan, Berlin, 22nd March 2018. 15. | ||
| Noemi Molitor, “Wunderbarer Zufall”, Taz, Berlin, 21st March 2018. | ||
| Galerie: “Analoger Glitch: RGB-Malerei von Gonzalo Reyes Araos”, Taz Tageszeitung, taz plan, Berlin, 1st March 2018. 15. | ||
| 2017 | Social Geometrism, kunstamspreeknie.org, Catalog, Berlin | |
| 2015 | Losito Kressmann-Zchach Foundation, Losito Kunstpreis 2015, Vernetzung, October 2015, Berlin ISBN 3-937155-15-5 | |
| 7th Geumcheon Arts Factory international artists exchange, web publication. | ||
| Schöneweide Kreativ, Mareike Lemme and Marlene Lerch, Berlin, July 2015 | ||
| DIE KUNST, MIT VIEL ARBEIT KEIN GELD ZU VERDIENEN, Schalter RAUM, Schöneweide Kreativ, Berlin, July 2015 | ||
| 2014 | Alexander Gumz, “Leistungsschau der freien Szene”, Berliner Morgenpost, Di Welt, Berlin, July 2014. 16. | |
| Alexander Gumz, “Leistungsschau der freien Szene”, Di Welt, Berlin, Juli 2014. Leistungsschau-der-freien-Szene | ||
| “KaSK”, Kunst am Spreeknie, Schock Velag & Novilla, Catalogue, Berlin, July 2014. 54. | ||
| Daniel Eltinger, “Sieben Medienkünstler zelebrieren den Nachlass technologischer Innovationen”, Kunstgeflüster, Berlin, July 2014, 10. | ||
| Steffen Blunk, “Enine wirklich große Anzahl von gutter und bemerkenswerter Kunst!”, Kunst geflüster, Berlin, July 2014, 3. | ||
| Mirja Koponen and Scott McCracken, “Paint like you mean it 2014”, Catalogue, Interviewroom 11, Edinburgh. ISBN 978-1-32-001242-3 | ||
| 2013 | Galerie Mazzoca Catalogue 2013, Mazzocca Contemporary Paintings, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2012 | Commission d’aide à la bande dessinée de la communauté française de Belgique Répertoire de 67 auteurs de bande dessinée en Wallonie et à Bruxelles, Belgium. ISBN 2-930071-83-4 | |
| 2008 | Pintores Noveles, Fivars Galleries, Alicante, Spain | |
| 2007 | Club del libro en Español “Exhibition tribute to José Maria Sert”, Catalogue, ONU, Geneva, December 2007. | |
| 2006 | “Sala Balmaceda 2005”, Balmaceda 1215, Catalogue, Valparaíso, July 2006 | |
| Carlos Lastarria Hermosilla, “Dos pintores en Viña”, El Mercurio de Valparaíso, May 2006. | ||
| Virginia Vizcaino, “Y Dios creó la célula…y la célula la imagen”, Antesala Viña del Mar gallery, Viña del Mar, April 2006. | ||
| 2005 | University of Valparaíso, ”XXVII Concurso nacional Arte y Poesía joven”, Catalogue, Valparaíso 2005. | |
| 2003 | University of Valparaíso, ”XXV Concurso nacional Arte y Poesía joven”, Catalogue, Valparaíso 2003. |
| ARTIST TALKS | ||
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| 2023 | Book release BITMAP POEMARIUM, Galerie Peter Gaugy, Vienna, Austria | |
| Seminar at Faculty of Art, Finis Terrae University, Santiago (CL) | ||
| Book release BITMAP POEMARIUM, De/cipher, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||
| Book release and talk BITMAP POEMARIUM, NADAN, Berlin (DE) | ||
| Book release and talk BITMAP POEMARIUM, GKG – Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn, Alemania | ||
| 2020 | CIELOS BINARIOS, artist talk in the program «El Arte Contemporáneo Reside En El Desierto», H Residency, Calama, Chile | |
| 2020 | Artist talk at the Fine Art School of Valparaiso, Valparaíso, Chile | |
| 2019 | Artist talk at the Fine Art School of Viña del Mar, Chile | |
| 2018 | Horizonte, Migración y Arte Contemporáneo, Colegio Leonardo Da Vinci, in the framework of SACO7 Contemporary Art Festival, Calama, Chile | |
| Liceo Jorge Alessandri, in the framework of SACO7 Contemporary Art Festival, Calama, Chile | ||
| Escuela de Bellas Artes de Valparaíso, Chile | ||
| Centro Cultural Leopoldo Silva, Quillota, Chile | ||
| 2016 | KUNST 말 – Artist Talk Program “Artistic experience in Korea #1”, Gallery2, Berlin, Germany |
| COLLECTIONS |
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| National Center of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile |
| gkg – Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn, Germany |
| Shandong Art Museum, Jinan, China |
| Cultural Corporation of Viña del Mar, Municipal Council of Viña del Mar, Chile |
| House of Culture of Limache, Municipal Council of Limache, Chile |
| Private collections in Chile, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, United Kingdoms, South Korea and United States |
| ASSOCIATIVE EXPERIENCE | ||
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| 2018- | today | Director of H Residency, platform of contemporary art at Calama, Chile |
| 2016- | 2017 | Art Adviser and committee member, Kunst am Spreeknie, Schöneweide Art Festival, Berlin, Germany |
| 2007- | 2014 | Committee member, project manager and artist of Association Métis’Arte, Lausanne, Switzerland |