About

Nature is always present in my artwork, exuberant and sensual, in constant change and motion. Accumulating complex and divergent elements. Something growing and stacking up somewhere; something dying elsewhere; everything starts anew. The viewer finds themselves in the maze until they become the Other, a stroller in parks where entrances and exits and days and nights become transfused together. 

— Paula Otegui

Paula earned her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art at the National University of Buenos Aires. Her work has been part of several juried and invitational group such as Horizonte Vazado: Artistas Iberoamericanos en el filo, Cervantes Institute of São Paulo; National Painting Exhibit 2012, Banco de la Nación Argentina Foundation, Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, Culture Secretariat of Argentina, Buenos Aires; Klemm Foundation Visual Arts Award, Klemm Foundation, Buenos Aires; About Change, in Latin America and the Caribbean, The World Bank  Art Program, Washington. And solo shows at Pabellón 4 Gallery Contemporary Art, Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires and Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts Gallery Miami, U.S.A., among others.

She has won several awards, First Prize Young Artists, III National Central Bank Painting Award, National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires; Great Prize for Young Talent, 3rd Painting Competition-UADE University, Metropolitano Museum, Buenos Aires ; 1st Prize Positive Culture, adult category, painting. Huésped Foundation and Argentine Culture Secretariat, Buenos Aires; 1st Prize Incentive for Young Painters Award Hebraica 2007, Metropolitano Museum, Buenos Aires. Most recently she was awarded by the Pollock- Krasner Foundation and a grant from the Metropolitan Fund from the Ministry of Culture of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires.

Paula is now living and working in Buenos Aires, Argentina.