Consuelo Méndez

Consuelo Méndez (Caracas, 1952) is a retired university level art professor at the former Institute of Superior Studies of Fine Arts Armando Reverón, now University of the Arts, UNEARTES, in the area of Experimental Drawing, Body Art and Performance. In Venezuela, she has been awarded prizes for her artwork in the Michelena National Show (1981, 1983), the Municipal Art Prize of Caracas (1984), the Graphic Biennal of Maracaibo (1990), and at the Miniature Graphics Competition TAGA (1982, 1990, 2004). She has participated in numerous exhibitions in countries like South Korea, Bulgaria, Puerto Rico, Colombia, the United States, Cuba, México, Poland, and Belgium. She researches the plastic and visual arts: painting, drawing, photography, graphic arts, at the same time demonstrating special interests in bookmaking and works on paper. The relationship between the body and the visual arts has become more and more relevant in her personal expression and her teaching, opening the way to her creative research. Also, she has begun to develop a line of work in art therapy. She belongs to the Pielforma Group, a laboratory experience in body-art research.