| Gonzalo was born in 1980 in Quilpué, Chile. |
| He currently lives and works in Berlin and in Chile. |
| EDUCATION | ||
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| 2000- | 2004 | Master of Fine Arts, specialization in painting at the School of Fine Arts of Valparaíso, Chile |
| 2000- | 2003 | Graduate Assistant Instructor in Fine Arts in painting at the School of Fine Arts of Valparaíso, Chile |
| 2013- | 2014 | Diplome of Programmation of Communication and Information Systems, Strasbourg University, France |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selection) | ||
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| 2025 | I remember correctly you are you and the rest is history, galerie PLUTO, Bonn, Germany | |
| 2023 | CIELO ROJO Y VERDE Y AZUL, solo show at Parque Cultural Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile | |
| SKY IS FALLING ASLEEP ON THE DESK OF THE TIME, solo show at Galerie Peter Gaugy, Vienna, Austria | ||
| 2022 | NOCTURNOS, solo show at Gallerie Gilla Lörcher, Berlin, Germany | |
| CIELO & BITS, solo show at KSTN – Kastanien Projektraum, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2018 | RGB PAINTINGS, solo show at Gallerie Gilla Lörcher, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2017 | FOREIGN SKY, solo show at Asia Contemporary Art Platform NON BERLIN, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2014 | GAPE – 02, LIGHTHEART, Plateau Gallery, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2012 | Matter – Light – Time, Pantocrator Gallery, Shanghai, China | |
| 2011 | Transmutation – Rencontre, Maison de l’Amérique latine, Brussels, Belgium | |
| 2006 | Dimensiones Abstractas, Balmaceda 1215 Cultural Centre, Valparaíso, Chile (Cat.) | |
| Y Dios creó la célula…y la célula la imagen, exhibition at the Antesala Viña del Mar, Viña del Mar, Chile (Cat.) |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selection) | ||
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| 2026 | GIMME SHELTER III, LAGE EGAL [LOODS 12], Wetteren, Belgium | |
| Voll, Frau Reim, Berlín, Germany | ||
| 2025 | Strike Presence, LAGE EGAL, Brussels | |
| **leer**, freiraum, Berlin, Germany | ||
| RECLAIM REALITY, Rosalux project space, Berlin, Germany | ||
| ACCROCHAGE, Galerie Gilla Lörcher, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2024 | BETWIXT & BETWEEN, LAGE EGAL, Berlin, Germany | |
| BAAM, Art Market, Monopol, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 3%, NADAN, Berlin, Germany | ||
| ANOTHER DAY AT THE OFFICE, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2023 | WEAVING MEMORIES at NADAN Berlin, Germany | |
| DE/CIPHER, GKG, Bonn, Germany | ||
| DE/CIPHER, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||
| Paper Positions Berlin, Art Fair Gallerie Gilla Lörcher, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2022 | Natura Ex Machina, screening at Venice Arsenale, curated by Celyn Bricker, hosted by Continuous Regeneration, Venice, Italy | |
| Chilean Conexión, Festival of Arts, Berlin, Germany | ||
| In Focus, Galerie Peter Gaugy, Vienna, Austria | ||
| Corresponsal Extranjero Museo Baburizza, Fine Art School of Valparaíso, Chile | ||
| DECEMBER’S CHILDREN (AND EVERYBODY’S), LAGE EGAL, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2021 | SWAB Barcelona Art Fair LAGE EGAL, Barcelona, Spain | |
| naturae, Galerie Peter Gaugy, Vienna, Austria | ||
| Chilean Conexion, Chilean Art Festival Berlin, at Monopol Berlin, Germany | ||
| SMALL WONDERS, Galleie Gilla Lörcher, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2020 | L’ARTISTE ET LES COMMISSAIRES, LAGE EGAL, Berlin, Germany | |
| Berlin Banlieue Lage Egal, AUKTIONSHAUS JESCHKE VAN VLIET, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2019 | LAGE EGAL [FLARE OF FRANKFURT] at Paper Position, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| AUGMENTED DREAMS, at Kunstquartier Bethanien/Projektraum, Berlin, Germany | ||
| CHILEAN CONEXIÓN, GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany | ||
| BEHIND THE SCREEN, at KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, Germany | ||
| ALL OUT “SMALL”, at KWADRAT, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2018 | DEMI-GROS, at Safe Gallery, Berlin, Germany | |
| H0, at SACO7 Festival, Sala Chela Lira, U. Catolica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile | ||
| NO PLACE / LIKE HOME, at GLINT Berlin, Berlin, Germany | ||
| WASTING TIME – Vol. 1 The Nature Edition, at Objekte Unserer Tage, Berlin, Germany | ||
| EXPERIMENT, at Voodoo55, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2017 | SOCIAL GEOMETRISM, KASK 2017, Berlin, Germany | |
| DIFFERENT SIMILARITIES, duo show with Carla Bertone, Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin, Germany | ||
| THRESHOLDS, duo show with Juan Varela, Meinblau Projektraum, Berlin, Germany | ||
| AUTREMER, Centre Socio Culturel Pôle Sud, Lausanne, Switzerland | ||
| 2016 | archiMEDIAL, Media Exhibition, Schöneweide Art Festival, Berlin, Germany | |
| RENAISSANCE, Lighthaus Berlin, Funkhaus Nalepasetasse, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2015 | Final_draft.mov, Geumcheon Art Apace Seoul, Korea | |
| Losito Kunstpreis 2015, Löwenpalais Lounge der Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany (Cat.) | ||
| Velada Remix 2015, art festival, Hamburg, Germany | ||
| Zentralestation, Kunst am Spreeknie 2015 – Schöneweide Art Festival, Berlin, Germany | ||
| Postinternet is dead, Fisher Gallery at Oberlin College, Ohio, USA | ||
| 2014 | Swab Barcelona, International Contemporary Art Fair, Pantocrator Gallery, Barcelona, Spain | |
| 1st Shandong Biennale, Mass Art Museum, Jinan, China (Cat.) | ||
| Umschalten, Schalterraum, Berlin, Germany | ||
| Sunland, Pantocrator Gallery at EBPC, Shanghai, China | ||
| Paint like you mean it, painting prize, final shortlist, Interviewroom 11, Edinburgh, Scotland (Cat.) | ||
| Spark, new medias art exhibition, Kunst am Spreeknie Schöneweide Art Festival, Berlin, Germany | ||
| Zentralestation, Kunst am Spreeknie 2014 – Schöneweide Art Festival, Berlin, Germany | ||
| Digital zur Malerei Dialog der Medien prize, final shortlist, Sparkasse, Karlsruhe, Germany | ||
| 2013 | Screen Festival Barcelona, Pantocrator Gallery, Barcelona, Spain | |
| Zendai Himalayas center, Pantocrator Gallery, Shanghai, China | ||
| Aktuelle Selbstportraits, Nachbarschaftsgalerie, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2012 | PrismeS, KARTüche gallery, Berlin, Germany (duo show with Kerstin Heller) | |
| Pantocrátor Gallery at Amsterdam Showcase, Netherlands | ||
| Retro-perspective, KARTüche gallery, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2011 | P,P & F, Maison du Vallon, Lausanne, Switzerland | |
| Artist Project, 15th anniversary of ILES, La Lustrerie, Brussels, Belgium | ||
| Art’page 2010, Glarey castel, Sierre, Switzerland | ||
| 2010 | International Painting and Mixed Media Competition, Lessedra gallery, Bulgaria | |
| 2009 | Viña del Mar National Painting Prize, final shortlist, Enjoy gallery Viña del Mar, Chile | |
| Juan Francisco González painting prize, final shortlist, House of Culture of Limache, Chile | ||
| 2008 | Dessinateurs de demain, BD-Fil Festival, Lausanne, SwitzerlandUn espace dédié à l’art, Echanden’s Castle, Switzerland | |
| Un espace dédié à l’art, Echanden’s Castle, Switzerland | ||
| 2007 | Exhibition tribute to José Maria Sert, Spanish Book, Unites Nation’s Palace, Geneva, Switzerland (Cat.) | |
| 2006 | XXIV Valdivia y su río national painting prize, final shortlist, Valdivia, Chile | |
| Corral y su bahía painting prize, Honorary Award, Corral, Chile | ||
| 2005 | XXVII Arte y Poesía Joven art prize, final shortlist, University of Valparaíso, Farol gallery, Valparaíso, Chile (Cat.) | |
| Viña del Mar National Painting Prize, final shortlist, Enjoy gallery Viña del Mar, Chile | ||
| Juan Francisco González, painting prize, Honorary Award, House of Culture of Limache, Chile | ||
| 100 monedas de 100, action of public art, Latin American Art Week (SELAI), Valparaíso, Chile | ||
| 2004 | Pequeño Formato prize, final shortlist, Balmaceda 1215, to Valparaíso and Viña del Mar, Chile | |
| Murales por la paz, meeting mural painting for the centenary of Christ Re deemer, Mendoza, Argentina | ||
| Mural painting, Ex-Cárcel Cultural Park with Marcelino Truong, Lire en Fête festival, Valparaíso, Chile | ||
| 2003 | Mi Ciudad, art prize, final shortlist, Municipal Gallery of Valparaiso, Chile | |
| XXV Arte y Poesía Joven art prize, final shortlist, Farol gallery, University of Valparaíso, Chile (Cat.) | ||
| Casablanca…250 años de historia, art prize, final shortlist, Casablanca, Chile | ||
| 2002 | Mi Ciudad, art prize, final shortlist, Municipal Gallery of Valparaiso, Chile | |
| 2001 | Pequeño Formato, art prize, final shortlist, Balmaceda 1215, to Valparaíso and Viña del Mar, Chile |
| PRIZES AND FELLOWSHIPS | ||
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| 2025 | National Cultural Founds, Fondart – Grant, ARITHMOS, exhibition in Brussels | |
| National Cultural Founds, Fondart – FOREIGN SKIES, Chile – Catalog of works | ||
| 2023 | National Cultural Founds, Fondart – BITMAP POEMARIUM, Chile | |
| 2022 | German Ferderal Grant, NEUSTARTplus-Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany | |
| National Cultural Founds, Fondart Regional – Línea de Actividades Formativas Convocatoria 2022, H Residency, Calama, Chile | ||
| 2021 | RECHERCHESTIPENDIUM, Artist Grant awarded by the Berlin Senat for Visual Arts, Berlin, Germany | |
| BBK Studio Commissioned for Berlin Based Artists, Berlin, Gerany | ||
| 2020 | National Center of Contemporary Art, Acquisition of Artworks for the National Collection, Santiago, Chile | |
| 2020 | Fondo de las Culturas, Fondart Regional – Línea de Actividades Formativas Convocatoria 2020,H Residency, Calama, Chile | |
| 2015 | Art residency grant at Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul Fundation for Arts and Culture, Korea | |
| 2011 | Prix Découverte, Commission for Assistance to the comic book of the French community of Belgium | |
| 2006 | Honorary Award, II Corral y su bahía painting prize, Corral, Chile | |
| 2005 | Honorary Award, VI Juan Francisco González painting prize, Limache, Chile | |
| 2004 | First prize, mural painting competition Todos contra el muro, Ex-Cárcel Cultural Park, Valparaíso, Chile | |
| 2001- | 2004 | Scholarship, Degree in Fine Arts, School of Fine Arts of Valparaíso, Chile |
| RESIDENCIES | ||
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| 2024 | I REMEMBER CORRECTLY YOU ARE YOU AND THE REST IS HISTORY, galerie PLUTO, Bonn, Germany | |
| 2018 | H – Residency, in the frame of SACO7 Festival, Calama, Chile (2 months) | |
| 2015 | Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul Fundation for Arts and Culture, Korea (3 months) | |
| 2012 | Pantocrátor Gallery, Shanghai, China (3 months) | |
| 2010 | Art’page, Chalet à Goblet, Switzerland |
| PUBLICATIONS | ||
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| 2026 | press | Artista chileno Gonzalo Reyes Araos presenta libro en Bruselas, DIRAC (División de las Culturas, las Artes, el Patrimonio y Diplomacia Pública), online. |
| 2025 | book | Cielos Forasteros – Foreign Skies, Gonzalo Reyes Araos, ISBN: 978-956-423-888-3 |
| catalogue | ARITHMOS – this beautiful piece of paper, Gonzalo Reyes Araos, catalogue of works, printed and online. | |
| 2023 | book | BITMAP POEMARIUM, conseptual book of poems, Berlin, April 2023 |
| paper | Samuel Toro Contreras, Hipótesis curatorial de la exposición: “Cielo rojo y verde y azul de fondo de pantalla de tu vida” del artista Gonzalo Reyes Araos. Academia.edu | |
| magazine | Revista DIAGRAMA, 6. edición, Ediciones Universidad Finis Terrae, Santiago 2022, ISSN 0719-9384 | |
| press | Samuel Toro Contreras, Revista Artishock https://artishockrevista.com/2023/11/29/gonzalo- reyes-araos-cielo-rojo-y-verde-y-azul/ | |
| catalogue | Paper Positions Art Fair, Catalogue, Berlin (DE) | |
| catalogue | Susannah Cremer-Bermbach, De/Cipher, Zum semiotischen Wechselspiel zwischen Ver- und Entschlüsselung von Zeichen und Symbolen und ihrer Übersetzung in Information, Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung e. V. | |
| press | Consulado de Chile en Austria, «Exposicion en Viena del artista Chileno Gonzalo Reyes Araos», online, https://www.chile.gob.cl/austria/noticias/exposicion-en-viena-del-artista-chileno-gonzalo-reyes | |
| article | María Andrea Muñoz, Cultura Latina Magazine, «Explorando Recuerdos individuales», online, https://www.culturalatina.at/es/arte/item/1836-entrevista-a-gonzalo-reyes-araos | |
| Susannah Cremer-Bermbach, De/cipher, gkg e.V., Bonn, May 2023 | ||
| 2020 | H Residency, El Arte Contemporáneo Reside en el Desierto, Calama, Diciembre 2020 | |
| 2019 | El Mostrador Cultura, Chilean Conexión: artistas chilenos en Berlín, El Mostrador, Santiago, Septiembre 2019. | |
| Camila Molina, GONZALO REYES ARAOS | RGB Paintings, Revista Esbozo, SISTEMA. Editoral Ojo Ahí, Valparaíso, July 2019, 8 – 13. | ||
| 2018 | Alejandra Villasmil, Gonzalo Reyes Araos | PORTAFOLIO, Artishock Magazine, Santiago, August 2018 | |
| Gonzalo Reyes Araos, Constelaciones en un cielo forastero, SACO7 Origen y mito, Antofagasta, December 2018, 142 – 145. | ||
| Gonzalo Reyes Araos, HO, SACO7 Origen y mito, Antofagasta, December 2018, 66 – 68. | ||
| Peter Ungeheuer, DEMI-GROS, Catalog, Berlin, August 2018. | ||
| Extra Noticias, Artistas nacionales y extranjeros exponen en Antofagasta, Antofagasta, 30th July 2018. | ||
| El Mensajero, Con una contundente programación inauguraron el Festival de Arte Contemporáneo SACO7 Origen y mito, Antofagasta, 25th July 2018. | ||
| Catherine Marshall, Like Home, Elsewhere, A Journal of Place, Berlin, 5th July 2018 | ||
| “Einblick (716): Gonzalo Reyes Araos, Künstler”, Taz Tageszeitung, taz plan, Berlin, 22nd March 2018. 15. | ||
| Noemi Molitor, “Wunderbarer Zufall”, Taz, Berlin, 21st March 2018. | ||
| Galerie: “Analoger Glitch: RGB-Malerei von Gonzalo Reyes Araos”, Taz Tageszeitung, taz plan, Berlin, 1st March 2018. 15. | ||
| 2017 | Social Geometrism, kunstamspreeknie.org, Catalog, Berlin | |
| 2015 | Losito Kressmann-Zchach Foundation, Losito Kunstpreis 2015, Vernetzung, October 2015, Berlin ISBN 3-937155-15-5 | |
| 7th Geumcheon Arts Factory international artists exchange, web publication. | ||
| Schöneweide Kreativ, Mareike Lemme and Marlene Lerch, Berlin, July 2015 | ||
| DIE KUNST, MIT VIEL ARBEIT KEIN GELD ZU VERDIENEN, Schalter RAUM, Schöneweide Kreativ, Berlin, July 2015 | ||
| 2014 | Alexander Gumz, “Leistungsschau der freien Szene”, Berliner Morgenpost, Di Welt, Berlin, July 2014. 16. | |
| Alexander Gumz, “Leistungsschau der freien Szene”, Di Welt, Berlin, Juli 2014. Leistungsschau-der-freien-Szene | ||
| “KaSK”, Kunst am Spreeknie, Schock Velag & Novilla, Catalogue, Berlin, July 2014. 54. | ||
| Daniel Eltinger, “Sieben Medienkünstler zelebrieren den Nachlass technologischer Innovationen”, Kunstgeflüster, Berlin, July 2014, 10. | ||
| Steffen Blunk, “Enine wirklich große Anzahl von gutter und bemerkenswerter Kunst!”, Kunst geflüster, Berlin, July 2014, 3. | ||
| Mirja Koponen and Scott McCracken, “Paint like you mean it 2014”, Catalogue, Interviewroom 11, Edinburgh. ISBN 978-1-32-001242-3 | ||
| 2013 | Galerie Mazzoca Catalogue 2013, Mazzocca Contemporary Paintings, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2012 | Commission d’aide à la bande dessinée de la communauté française de Belgique Répertoire de 67 auteurs de bande dessinée en Wallonie et à Bruxelles, Belgium. ISBN 2-930071-83-4 | |
| 2008 | Pintores Noveles, Fivars Galleries, Alicante, Spain | |
| 2007 | Club del libro en Español “Exhibition tribute to José Maria Sert”, Catalogue, ONU, Geneva, December 2007. | |
| 2006 | “Sala Balmaceda 2005”, Balmaceda 1215, Catalogue, Valparaíso, July 2006 | |
| Carlos Lastarria Hermosilla, “Dos pintores en Viña”, El Mercurio de Valparaíso, May 2006. | ||
| Virginia Vizcaino, “Y Dios creó la célula…y la célula la imagen”, Antesala Viña del Mar gallery, Viña del Mar, April 2006. | ||
| 2005 | University of Valparaíso, ”XXVII Concurso nacional Arte y Poesía joven”, Catalogue, Valparaíso 2005. | |
| 2003 | University of Valparaíso, ”XXV Concurso nacional Arte y Poesía joven”, Catalogue, Valparaíso 2003. |
| ARTIST TALKS | ||
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| 2025 | Poetics of Machine Learning, Lecture and Panel discussion, Uni Bonn, Germany | |
| 2023 | Book release BITMAP POEMARIUM, Galerie Peter Gaugy, Vienna, Austria | |
| Seminar at Faculty of Art, Finis Terrae University, Santiago (CL) | ||
| Book release BITMAP POEMARIUM, De/cipher, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||
| Book release and talk BITMAP POEMARIUM, NADAN, Berlin (DE) | ||
| Book release and talk BITMAP POEMARIUM, GKG – Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn, Alemania | ||
| 2020 | CIELOS BINARIOS, artist talk in the program «El Arte Contemporáneo Reside En El Desierto», H Residency, Calama, Chile | |
| 2020 | Artist talk at the Fine Art School of Valparaiso, Valparaíso, Chile | |
| 2019 | Artist talk at the Fine Art School of Viña del Mar, Chile | |
| 2018 | Horizonte, Migración y Arte Contemporáneo, Colegio Leonardo Da Vinci, in the framework of SACO7 Contemporary Art Festival, Calama, Chile | |
| Liceo Jorge Alessandri, in the framework of SACO7 Contemporary Art Festival, Calama, Chile | ||
| Escuela de Bellas Artes de Valparaíso, Chile | ||
| Centro Cultural Leopoldo Silva, Quillota, Chile | ||
| 2016 | KUNST 말 – Artist Talk Program “Artistic experience in Korea #1”, Gallery2, Berlin, Germany |
| COLLECTIONS |
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| National Center of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile |
| gkg – Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn, Germany |
| Shandong Art Museum, Jinan, China |
| Cultural Corporation of Viña del Mar, Municipal Council of Viña del Mar, Chile |
| House of Culture of Limache, Municipal Council of Limache, Chile |
| Private collections in Chile, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, United Kingdoms, South Korea and United States |
| CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | RESIGNIFICAR, H Residency, Galería de Arte Pablo Neruda, Calama, Chile | |
| 2022 | A CIELO ABIERTO, H Residency, Galería de Arte Pablo Neruda, Calama, Chile | |
| 2018 | H0, H Residency and SACO7 Origen y mito, Galería de Arte Pablo Neruda, Calama, Chile | |
| 2017 | KASK, Festival Kunst am Spreeknie, Stiftung Reinbeckhallen, Schöneweide, Berlin, Alemania |
| ASSOCIATIVE EXPERIENCE | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2018- | today | Director of H Residency, platform of contemporary art at Calama, Chile |
| 2016- | 2017 | Art Adviser and committee member, Kunst am Spreeknie, Schöneweide Art Festival, Berlin, Germany |
| 2007- | 2014 | Committee member, project manager and artist of Association Métis’Arte, Lausanne, Switzerland |