1954 Born in Santiago, Chile
Lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland
EDUCATION
1979 M.A. Graphic Arts Institute for Graphic Instruction, CONAC, Caracas, Venezuela
1978 Certificate, Making Paper by Hand, CEGRA, CONAC, Caracas, Venezuela
75-76 Design Institute, Neumann Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela
1973 Industrial and Graphic Design, Technological Sucre, Caracas
1972 B.A. Santiago College, Chile
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 [Upcoming] Soledad Salamé: Camouflage, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX
2022 Fuerza Natura, Galeria NAC, Santiago, Chile
2021 Soledad Salamé: FORCED by NATURE, Transart Foundation, Houston, TX
2019 Soledad Salamé: We the Migrants; Fleeing/Flooding, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
2016 Soledad Salamé: Are You Listening?, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
2014 Art Miami Curated Public Project, JW Marriott Marquis, Miami, FL
2013 Soledad Salamé: Looking Back… Looking Forward, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
Soledad Salamé: Looking Back… Looking Forward, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Barcodes: Merging Identity & Technology, An Interactive Artwork by Soledad Salamé, Art Miami, Miami, FL
Mapping Atmospheres 2008-2011, Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2010 Barcodes, Atmospheres, and Islands, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
2009 Where Do You Live? Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
2008 Nuevas Geografias, Durban Segnini Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
2007 New Geographies, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
2006 Aguas Vivas, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; Pinacoteca, University of Concepcion,
Concepcion, Chile; Archaeological Museum of La Serena, La Serena, Chile
2005 Agua Fluida, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore MD
2004 Time and Materials, Irvine Contemporary, Washington, DC
2003 Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2002 In Silence, Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2001 In the Labyrinth of Solitude, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
2000 The Poetics of the Natural World, Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1999 Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1997 Shrines of Nature, Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1996 Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1995 Reflexiones Interiore, Galeria Minotauro, Caracas, Venezuela
Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States, Washington, DC
1994 Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1992 S.L. Brown Design Associates, Richmond, VA
1990 Carmen, Scenic Design and Installation, Baltimore Opera Company, Baltimore, MD
1980 City College, New York, Ny
Wells College, Aurora, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 The DMV Collects the DMV, The Washington Print Club 60th Anniversary Exhibition, The Kreeger Museum,
Washington, DC. Curated by Laura Roulet
From This Nature Springs, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Eternal Paper, The Paper Academy, Gilleleje, Denmark, Curator: Helen Frederick
Here in This Little Bay: Celebrating 30 Years at the Kreeger, The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC.
Curated by Kristen Hileman
Cruces de Campo: Sedimentation of a World That Refuses to Die, Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral [GAM],
Santiago, Chile. Presented by Galeria NAC
2023 Eternal Paper, University of Maryland Global Campus, College Park, MD, Curator: Helen Frederick
Contested Landscapes, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
2022 FIRED UP!, Coppin State University in collaboration with The American Ceramic Society’s Glass & Optical
Materials Division and United Nations International Year of Glass, Coppin State University,
Baltimore, MD. Curators: Howard L. Cohen, Amy Eva Raehse, Linda Day Clark
21-23 How Do We Know the World?, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD.
Curators: Jessica Bell Brown and Leila Grothe
2021 Fit to Print, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA. Curators: Dr. Ksenia Nouril and Lisa Blas
2017 The Women’s March, 2017, Special Project, BMA Print Fair, Baltimore, MD and New York, NY
2016 Gifts of Art for a New Century 2006-2016, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Morphology of Archive, Museum of Goa Contemporary Arts, Goa, India
2015 Under the Sun: Artists of Sol Print Studio, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC
2014 Herland, Deutsche Bank, New York NY
CSA: Forty Years of Community-Sourced Art, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
2013 Cool Stories II, The Lincoln Center, New York, NY
First Impressions, Sol Print Studios, Stevenson University, Stevenson, MD
Noesis, Cosmos Club, Washington, DC
2012 Brand 10 ArtSpace, Fort Worth, TX
2011 CORRIDOR, The Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
New Prints 2011, Autumn, International Print Center, New York, NY
Cool Stories for When the Planet Gets Hot II and III, on the Big Screen Plaza, Parsons New School of
Design, New York, NY
2010 Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Suenos: Contemporary Latin American Art, Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
The Machine Eats, Frederico Sève Gallery, New York, NY
Mapping – Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art, Katonah Museum of Art, Westchester, NY
New Prints, Spring, International Print Center NY, Selected by Philip Pearlstein, New York, NY
09-10 FAX Show, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD (Traveling exhibition)
Cool Stories for When the Planet Gets Hot II, ARTPORT, Focus 9, Art Basel, Switzerland;
Traveled to: MuVIM Museum, Valencia, Spain; Copenhagen Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
08-09 IV Biennial Interamericana de Video, Washington, DC (Traveling exhibition)
Moving Towards a Balance Earth, TE Papa Museum, New Zealand
2006 Tijuana IV Biennial Internacional de Estandarte, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Cecut, Mexico
2005 Traveling Tales, Aratoi Museum, Masterton, New Zealand
Art of the Prints, Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
Works on Paper, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
04-05 Palm Beach Art Fair, Goya Contemporary, Palm Beach, FL
2004 First Annual Contemporary Drawing Show, Irvine Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
Sculpture in 4 Dimensions, Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
2003 The Big Picture II, the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
2002 The Big Picture I, the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
2000 Latin American Still Life: Reflections of Time and Place, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Chilean Artists at the Threshold of the New Millennium, The Artists’ Museum, Washington, DC
Flowers & Insects, the American Center for Physics, College Park, MD
Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1999 Latin American Still Life: Reflections of Time and Place, Katonah Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mastering the Millennium: Art of the Americas, The World Bank in association with the
Organization of American States, Washington, DC
Prints Historic and Contemporary, Evergreen House, Baltimore, MD
Women’s History Month Exhibiting Artists, Government House, Annapolis, MD
1998 Prints, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
Jacqueline Rothschild Fine Art, New York, NY
1997 Gallery Artists, Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC
1996 Earthbound, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Contemporary Women Printmakers, Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
95-96 Latin American Women Artists 1915-1995, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI; Traveled to: Phoenix Art Museum, AZ;
Denver Art Museum, CO; The National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC;
The Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL
1995 Biennial Barro de America II, Museum of Contemporary Art Sofia Imber, Caracas, Venezuela
The World’s Women On-Line!, Internet Art Exhibit in conjunction with the United Nations’ Conference on
Women in Beijing, China, and the National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
1994 Across Boarders, Sin Frontiers, Washington Sculptors Group/Museum of the Americas, Organization of
American States, Washington, DC
1993 Secret Pages, 26 Monoprints, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Terre Terre, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
1992 Women of the World, Zenith Gallery/Adams Bank, Washington, DC
Five Women-Five Visions, Marta Morante Gallery, New York, NY
Terre Terre, Canadian Symposium of Young Painters, Le Centre D’Arte De Baie-Saint Paul, Quebec
Artspace, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
1991 On Plain Air, Francoise Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Maryland on View, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Paper Visions 3, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
Sculpture of the Americas into the Nineties, Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington, DC
1989 Past Present and Future, Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC
1988 International Biennial of Graphic Arts, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, NY
1987 Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Arlington Arts Center/Bell Atlantic Gallery, Arlington, VA
1986 A Celebration of Washington Artists, Gallery Row, Washington, DC
Contemporary Hispanic Art, Meridian House International, Washington, DC
Venezuelan Artists in the USA, Galaria Venezuela, New York, NY
1985 The All Washington Show, Washington, DC
Sculpture ’85, Caracas, Venezuela
1983 Sculpture ’83, Matter and Space, Caracas, Venezuela
1982 International Biennial of Graphics, Maracaibo, Venezuela
Biennial of Graphics and Drawings, National Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
1981 Young Artists Exhibit, Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas, Venezuela
1980 First Miniature Exhibit, United Graphic Artists, Bogotá, Columbia
1979 Latin American Graphics, Buenos Aires, Argentina
COMMISSIONS
2012 Curator's Choice, Art Miami, Barcodes: Merging Identity and Technology, Miami, FL
2011 Public Art Project, DOT Renovation, Baltimore, MD
Gulf Distortions, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
2009 Where do you live? 3000 miles of Maryland Coast, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
08-09 Moving Towards a Balanced Earth, TE Papa Museum, Wellington, New Zealand
2002 Living Waters, Museum of Fine Art, Santiago, Chile
2000 Labyrinth of Solitude, Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile
1994 Carmen, four sets, Baltimore Opera, Baltimore, MD
SELECTED GRANTS & AWARDS
2021 Individual Artist Grant, Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology, Houston, TX
14-15 Davidoff International Art Initiative, International Artist Residency, Dominican Republic
2013 The Print Center, 87th Annual International Competition, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
1994 Latina Excellence Award, Hispanic Magazine
1982 International Biennial of Graphics, Special Recognition
77-79 CONAC Scholarship
PUBLICATIONS & LECTURES
2024 Cruces de Campo. 10 Years of Galería NAC, Artishock, by Victoria Abaroa
A Conversation with Soledad Salamé, Ecological Design Collective, Virtual Talk
2023 Eternal Paper at UMGC, East City Art, by Claudia Rousseau, Ph. D.
4 Chilean Artists Abroad That Are Worth Knowing, DF MAS, by Valentina de Aguirre
2022 Soledad Salamé: Finding Poetry in Inconvenient Truths, BmoreArt, by Laura Roulet
Soledad Salamé, Posit Journal, Online Article
2021 Moving Through the Earth, Crossing Borders and Boundaries, by Edward J. Sullivan
Considering Boundaries, by Clayton Kirking
Printmaking and Collaboration: A Conversation with Soledad Salamé, Washington Print Club, Washington, DC
2019 Soledad Salamé - We The Migrants: Fleeing/Flooding, Baltimore: Goya Contemporary
2018 ArtTable Presents - Artist Perspectives with Soledad Salamé: Printmaking as a Democratic Medium,
ArtTable, New York, NY
2017 It’s All Political, Art in Print, by Sarah Kirk Hanley
18 Things you Should see During NY City’s Print Week 2017, By Caroline Goldstein
2016 Soledad Salamé: Are You Listening?, Baltimore: Goya Contemporary
2014 Science Under Microscope, Little Patuxtent Review, by Michael Salcman
2013 PDPS Newsletter, Baltimore Museum of Art
2011 20 Years, Baltimore: The Contemporary Museum. Hoffman, Irene
Corridor, Washington: Art Museum of The Americas
2010 Soledad Salamé: Barcodes, Atmospheres, and Islands, Baltimore: Goya Contemporary
2009 Art in America, International Review by Cathy Lebowitz, October ’09, p. 172
2008 Arte en CCU, Ed. Marisol Bravo, et al. p. 108.
2007 Living Waters, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
Art in Action, Nature, Creativity and our Collective Future, Randy Rosenberg, edited by Noa Jones
2006 Latin American Women Artists, A Bibliographic Archive, compiled by Cecilia Puerto
2002 St. James Guide to Hispanic Artists: Profiles of Latino and Latin American Artists, edited by Thomas Riggs
2001 In the Labyrinth of Solitude, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
1999 Latin American Women Artists of the United States: The Works of Thirty-three 20th Century Women
by Robert Henkes
1996 Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century, edited by Edward J. Sullivan, Phaidon Press, London, UK
New American Paintings, An Exhibition of the Winner’s Works, Open Studios Press
SELECTED PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
American Insurance Association
Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States
Baltimore Museum of Art
Bolivar Outdoor Museum
Caracas Country Club
CEGRA
Deutsche Bank
DLA Piper Global
Department of Transportation
El Mercurio
Emerson Corporation
Guareña Park
Inter-American Development Bank
International Finance Corporation / World Bank
Lan Chile
Levi Strauss & Co.
Lockheed Martin Corporation
MBNA Corporation
Museum of Fine Art Houston
Museum of Graphic Art
New Enterprise Associates
New York Public Library
National Museum of Fine Arts Chile
Piper and Marbury
Sun Trust Bank
TAGA Graphic Center
The National Gallery of Art
The Art Partnership, Inc.
The National Museum for Women in the Arts
University of Essex, Collection of Latin American Art
U.S. Bancorp equipment Finance, Inc
Venezuelan Embassy
Washington D.C. Convention Center
World Bank
Zurich Insurance
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Roulet, Laura, Soledad Salamé: Finding Poetry in Inconvenient Truths, BmoreArt, 2022
Soledad Salamé, Posit Journal, Online Article, 2022
Sullivan, Edward J., Moving Through the Earth, Crossing Borders and Boundaries, The Transart
Foundation, 2021
Kirking, Clayton, Considering Boundaries, by, The Transart Foundation, 2021
Nouril, Ksenia,Precarious Work, , 2019
Goldstein, Caroline, 18 Things you Should see During NY City’s Print Week 2017, 2017
Hirsh, Jennie, Are You Listening?, , Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD, 2016
Tallman, Susan, It’s All Political, Art in Print, 2017
Herland: eight women artists from the Deutsche Bank Collection invite eight women artists,
Artworks Deutsche Bank, 2014
CSA: Forty Years of Community Sourced Art, WETA Around Town, 2014
O’Sullivan, Michael, CSA: Forty Years of Community Sourced Art, Washington Post, 2014
Artist Soledad Salamé Presents Prints on Industrial Felt, Eyes In, February 2, 2013
O’Sullivan, Michael, Moving Art along the ‘Corridor’, The Washington Post, April 1, 2011
McCabe, Bret, Unnatural Wonders, Baltimore City Paper, July 7, 2010
Lebowitz, Cathy, International Review, Art In America, October 2009
MacLeod, Deborah, Water Scrawls, Baltimore City Paper, January 16, 2008
McNatt, Glenn, Tapping History for recent works, Baltimore Sun, December 19, 2007
Howard, Anne, Soledad Salamé: Agua Fluida, Baltimore City Paper, November 2, 2005
Giuliano, Mike, Critic’s Choice: Art Agua Fluida, Baltimore Weekly, 2005
McNatt, Glenn, Miniscule drops of water rendered monumentally, Baltimore Sun, 2005
McNatt, Glenn, In exhibit, water, water everywhere, Baltimore Sun, 2005
Second Nature, Baltimore City Paper, Mike Giuliano, December 4, 2002
Glenn McNatt, Soledad Salamé: Art Preview, The Baltimore Sun, November 25, 2002
Belgica Rodriguez, Soledad Salamé: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Art Nexus, No. 43/Vol.1, 2002
José Zalaquett, Pinturas, Instalaciones y Discursos, Que Pasa, Santiago, Chile, September 15, 2001
Un Laberinto se toma el Bellas Artes, El Mercurio, Santiago, Chile, Guadalupe Fonseca, September 14, 2001
El Arte es Mi Religion, Entrevista con Soledad Salamé, El Mercurio, Santiago, Chile, Soledad
Salgado S., September 2001
A Cultural Voyage Exhibit Transports Viewers to Another World, The Washington Post, Sara Wildberger,
September 21, 2000
A Brush with Politics at Harmony Hall, The Washington Post, Ferdinand Protzman, September 7, 2000
McNatt, Glenn, Issues Confronted in Cultural Display, The Baltimore Sun, September 2000
Latin American Still Life El Museo del Barrio, Art News, June 2000
Hirsh, Arthur, Message from a Troubled Planet, The Baltimore Sun, May 22, 2000
McNatt, Glenn, Planet’s Poetry Inspires Realist, The Baltimore Sun, May 17, 2000
Pierre, Catherine, The World According to Salamé, Baltimore Magazine, May 2000
Maryland’s Private Art Collectors, The Daily Record, Mary E. Medland, February 5, 2000
Delicate and Strong, The Baltimore Sun, John Dorsey, January 5, 1999
The Bold and the Beautiful Exhibits Spell Out the Virtues of Subtlety, Baltimore City Paper, January 1999
Landmark Exhibition on Latin American Still Life Attracts Worldwide Attention, Mount Kisco Patent Trader,
December 1999
Latin American Still Life at KMA, More than a Cluster of Grapes and a Loaf of Bread, North County News,
Yorktown Heights, NY, December 8, 1999
Meet the Artist Series Complements Latin Art Show, Lewisboro Ledger, Cross River, NY, October 14, 1999
Soledad Salamé at Gomez Gallery, Baltimore City Paper, Mike Giuliano, January 20, 1999
Naturaleza Ingotable, El Mercurio, Santiago, Chile, June 9, 1998
Soledad Salamé Trae Insectos Americanos, El Expresso Oriente, Santiago, Chile, Avril 24,1998
Alas para el Arte, El Mercurio, Aura Barreneches, Santiago, Chile, May 1998
Soledad Salamé: Between Representation and Abstraction, Reuters, April 28, 1998
De lo Real a lo Imaginario en la Galeria, Arte Actual, Avril 1998
Top Ten of 1997, The Year in Art, Baltimore City Paper, Mike Giuliano, December 17, 1997
Buggin’ Artist Reconsiders Insects at Gomez Gallery, Baltimore City Paper, October 8, 1997
Bugs and Beauty, The Baltimore Sun, John Dorsey, September 11, 1997
Soledad Salamé/Gomez Gallery, Art Nexus, K. Mitchell Snow, March 25, 1997
Latin American Women Show opens Doors that shouldn’t be shut, The Miami Herald, Elisa Turner, June 16, 1996
Homage to Nine Artists/Gomez Gallery, Art Nexus, Belgica Rodriguez, April-June 1996
Gomez brings together his North and south American Connections, The Baltimore Sun, John Dorsey,
December 1996
Romantic Decay, Baltimore City Paper, Mike Giuliano, March 27, 1996
Soledad Salamé, Articulate, Lee Wayne Mills, April 16, 1996
Critic Choice, Baltimore City Paper, March 27, 1996
Artist Who dwells on theFragile Earth, The Baltimore Sun, April 1996
Nature’s Way:MAP Exhibits Showcase a Growing World, Baltimore City Paper, Mike Giuliano, April 17, 1996
The Top Ten of 1996/The Year in Art, Baltimore City Paper, December 18, 1996
CFA showcases Latin American Women Artists, The Miami Herald, June 16, 1996
Mujeres LatinoAmericanas Expresan la Universalidad de Su Arte, El Tiempo Latino, Marcela Sanchez Fonseca,
February 9, 1996
Worth Seeing-Latin American Women Artists 1915-1995, KOAN, March 1996
Latin and Loving it, The Washington Post, March 8, 1996
Eight Decades of Vibrant Works from Latin Women, The Washington Times, Joanna Shaw Eagle, February 18, 1996
Chilena Soledad Salamé gano Importante Premio en Estados Unidos, El Universal, Caracas, Venezuela,
April 24, 1996
El Descubrimiento del Desarraigo, El Universal, Caracas, Venezuela, November 26, 1995
Southern Exposure, Baltimore Magazine, November 1995
Clay of the Americas: Earth as a synonym, Art Nexus, Juan Carlos Palenzuela, July-September 1995
Artistas Latinoamericanas 1915-1995, Art Nexus, Belgica Rodriguez, July - September 1995
Soledad Salamé en la Minotauro Arquitectura de Papel en Espacios Sagrados, El Nacional, Caracas Venezuela,
Doris Barrios, July 15, 1995
Artista Chilena que Exhibite en el Museo de las Americanas de la OEA, Gaceta Iberoamericana, summer 1995
The Art of the Living and Dying City, the Baltimore Sun, John Dorsey, June 8, 1994
Surprises, pleasures of regional sculpture, The Washington Times, Sarah Tanguy, May 12, 1994
Soledad Salamé, La Pintura como Forma de Investigacion, El Nuevo Herald, Rodolfo A. Windhausen,
February 28, 1993
Maryland on View, The Baltimore Sun, 1993
Chilena Diseno Escenografia de Carmen para Opera de Baltimore, El Mercurio, Santiago, Chile, Maria Isabel Sequel,
October 15, 1990
Opera opens 40th season with fine, seductive Carmen, The Baltimore Sun, Ernest F. Imhoff, October 15, 1990
Opera Carmen to have a New Look, The Evening Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, Scott Duncan, September 14, 1990
El Relojo del Sol, Miercoles, Caracas, Venezuela, November 21, 1982
Exposicion del CEGRA, El Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela, September 1982