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Patricia Betancourt
Patricia Betancourt
I was born in Guatemala in 1968. When I was still quite young, my family moved to Mexico. After high school, we moved to Colombia, where I completed my Bachiller Académico (Academic Baccalaureate). I began my advanced studies far from art, as a student of Industrial Engineering. Two years into my studies as an engineer, I found my true path in Art and obtained a Master’s in Fine Arts from the University of the Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. I started my journey in the art world with as both an artist and educator, holding my first solo and group exhibitions while simultaneously teaching painting, art theory, and art history. In the year 2000, I returned to the country of my birth to continue painting, and expand my academic career through the study of Guatemala’s rich history and archaeology. In 2020, I completed my Master’s degree in University Education at Universidad del Istmo in Guatemala, with the distinction Summa Cum Laude. I love the work of the educator as I love the work of the artist, and am fortunate to have participated in 22 solo exhibitions in Colombia and Guatemala and more than 150 international group exhibitions in the United States, El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, and Guatemala. In 2019, I was honored with the Artist of the Year award in Guatemala. In 2024, I won third place in the Galería Abierta at the Municipality of Guatemala. Currently, I balance teaching with my artistic practice.
Patricia Betancourt Art
See all Patricia Betancourt artPainting is the medium through which I explore, adapt, and understand adaptation through the many changes I’ve encountered over the course of my life. Changes in the country where I live, in the people closest to me, in my environments, awakenings, and periods of transformative investigation. Transition periods for me have been times of deep searching. Each era has a unique purpose within the continuity of my life’s experience. I paint that which surrounds me, what I am personally experiencing in a given moment, both real and imagined. Natural landscapes have proven a constant. While some of my work reflects physically identifiable geographical formations, I embrace the unexpected subject whose appearance may mean they take center stage. Then, the landscape may fade into a background, may be reflected through the presence of some favorite flowers or other token, or may shift entirely to an imaginary or abstract landscape that, within its depths, has become the keeper of those thoughts, memories, and dreams. I am fortunate to have worked as a professor of Art history throughout my career as an active artist, and the pandemic lockdowns prompted me to pursue a deep study of the Great Masters. In tribute to their work and legacy, I am now exploring a more prominent incorporation of the human form in my work. Ultimately, the theme serves as an excuse to explore the ever-changing language of my visual art, where the main elements are loose brushstrokes, color, and textures. I use mixed techniques, acrylics, oils, pastels, and collage.
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