Francesca Palma Terán / 1997 -ECUADOR
Email: frateran219@gmail.com
Currently is working in Ecuador
Artisticformation: (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.
Coursesreceived 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.
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.
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.
