CV + BIO 2026 Francesca Palma T.

CV + BIO

Francesca Palma Terán Email:

frateran219@gmail.com

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1997 -ECUADOR

Currently is working in Ecuador

Artistic formation: (Education) 22011

Paul Klee Barabino Art High - School / Figurative Arts, Genova, ITALIA.

22012

Fine Arts: mention in painting and ceramics, J. J. Plaza, Guayaquil, ECUADOR.

22016/2023

University of the Arts: Creation and pictorial research, Guayaquil, EC.

Soloshows 2021

ALREDEDOR DEL NORTE/ from the series Visual perception is circumscribed (¿), curated by Zayra Sanchez ,Taller Maldonado (Gallery).

Guayaquil, EC.

2023

While we wacth, something sees us curated by Ariana Tigua, 4Ta pared (Gallery), Library of the Arts, Gye, EC.

2023

No todas las rocas son montanas curated by Giada Lusardi, N.A.S,A,L (Gallery), Santana Loft , Gye, EC.

2024

Ce qui n’ est pas ici et maintenant, Embassy of Ecuador, 50 Rue Copernic 75116 Paris, FRANCE.

2025

Close the eyelids slowly, Ventana (Gallery), Berlin, GERMANY.

Courses received and residency 2020

Laboratory 609 (Pinturx), Violenta (Gallery), Guayaquil, EC.

2022

Program VIR Viafarini-in-residence, via Carlo Farini 35/Milan, Italia.

2025

Ventana’ s proyect, residence , Mehringdamm 91, Berlin, GERMANY.

Awards 2019

First place Women's Competition, Vindication & Feminism , House of Culture of Guayas, EC.

2022

Third place, Salón de Julio 61 edition Guayaquil, EC.

Exhibitions and Fairs: 2016

V Biennial at the Luis A. Noboa Naranjo, Guayaquil, EC.

2016

Salon Machala, 7th edition, Musa paradisiaca: visual arts, Machala, EC.

2018

VI International Biennial of Painting "Álvaro Noboa Pontón", Guayaquil, EC.

2019

Salón Machala, Tenth edition,Huaylà: International Visual Arts Award, Machala, EC.

2020

Open Studio / LAB. 609 (Pinturx), Violenta (Gallery), Guayaquil, EC.

2020

Los Dealers, Violenta ( Gallery), Plaza de la Fuente Cultural (Plaza Lagos), Guayaquil, EC.

2020

La Primera/4th edition, Nómada, Plaza de la Fuente Cultural (Plaza Lagos), Guayaquil, EC.

2021

La Primera/5th edition, Nómada, Plaza de la Fuente Cultural (Plaza Lagos), Guayaquil, EC.

2022

Open Studio, VIR Viafarini-in-residence, via Carlo Farini 35/Milan, Italia.

2022

La despedida no es el final, Taller Maldonado (Gallery), Guayaquil, EC.

2026

Hybrid Art Fair, Proarte (Piece of cake, Gallery), Madrid, SPAIN.

Colectives exhibitions 2020

Boca 9, University of the Arts, Mendiburo and Rocafuerte, Guayaquil, EC.

2020

Para Ayer, En Visto (Digital plataform of Contemporary Art), temporary location in central urdesa, Guayaquil, EC.

2021

MOMENTUM, nothing is permanent, everything is movement,La Minga (Gallery) , Quito, EC.

2022

Multiverso, with the curation of Teo Monsalve , GalleriaQ (Gallery), Quito, EC.

2022- 2023

Escuela de Pintura de Guayaquil, organized by the University of the Arts, Municipal Museum of Guayaquil, EC.

2023

For the snakes and the people they bite, Mabe Gallery, Grand-Rue 25, 1204 Genève, Switzerland.

2024-202

Multiverso II, Curaduria de Teo Monsalve y Santiago Avila , (Contemporary Art Center of QUito), Quito, EC

2025

Las manos llenas de letras, Main building of the Organization of American Statesv17th and Constitucion, Washington DC, US.

2025

Poeticas de la otra forma , Museo Municipal de Guayaquil, Sala Polivante y Sala de Arte Contemporaneo, GYE, Ecuador.

2025- 2026

Viajeras & Errantes, (dialogos im-pertinentes) curated by de Alexandra Kennedy, muestra colectiva en el Museo Antropológico y

de Arte Contemporáneo, MAAC, Guayaquil, Ecuador.

BIO

Francesca Palma is a visual artist born in Ecuador (1997). She grew up and lived in Genoa, Italy (1998-2012).

She began her studies in visual arts in 2011 at the Paul Klee Barabino Art School – Figurative Arts (Genoa, Italy). In 2012, she moved to Ecuador. In 2015, she graduated from the Juan José Plaza Institute of Fine Arts (Guayaquil, Ecuador) with a degree in painting. In 2023, she graduated from the University of the Arts of Ecuador with a specialization in Pictorial Poetics. She has participated in several group exhibitions, including Boca 9 (Guayaquil, Ecuador, 2020) and Para Ayer (Guayaquil, Ecuador, 2020). In 2020, she was selected for the Machala Biennial (2016 and 2019) and the 5th Luis A. Noboa Naranjo Biennial (2016 and 2018). In 2019, she won first place at the Women's Salon of the Guayas House of Culture, and in 2021, she inaugurated her first solo exhibition, ALREDEDOR DEL NORTE (AROUND THE NORTH), from the series "Visual Perception is Circumscribed (?)" at TM Gallery. Also in 2021, she was invited to participate in the group exhibition MOMENTUM; nothing is permanent, everything is in motion, at La Minga Gallery in Quito. Later that year, in Quito, she was invited to the Multiverse exhibition at GalleriaQ Gallery. In July 2022, she won third place at the 61st edition of the Salón de Julio (July Salon), and in October 2022, she participated in the Via Farini Residence program in Milan, Italy.

In September 2023, she presented her thesis project, her second solo exhibition, at La Cuarta Pared in Guayaquil.

In October 2023, the artist inaugurated her third solo exhibition at Loft Puerto Santana in Guayaquil, displayed at the N.A.S.A.L. Gallery.

At the end of 2023, she exhibited in Switzerland, and in April 2024, she presented a show at the Ecuadorian Embassy in Paris. Simultaneously, her work was included in a group exhibition at the Contemporary Art Center of Quito and another at the Guayaquil Municipal Museum. In August 2025, Ventana Gallery selected her work to be displayed in a 360° window at the Gesundbrunnen U8 station in Berlin.

In March 2026, Francesca Palma exhibited alongside 4 other national artists at the HyBrid Fair in Madrid; she is currently working in the city of Guayaquil.