About Fiorella Angelini

Fiorella Angelini is a Chilean artist living and working in London. She is currently undertaking an MFA in Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, after being awarded a Chilean Government scholarship. She gained her BA in Fine Art from the Universidad Finis Terrae, Chile, in 2012. She has exhibited internationally, with recent exhibitions including those at the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Korea, the Sala de Arte CCU, Chile, Saatchi Gallery, London, and Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London.

Angelini’s practice spans installation, photography and video. She pushes the boundaries of analogue photography, using it as a component within installation and sculptural pieces. Metals, plastics and natural fibres are just some of the materials the artist uses to transform her photographs into volumetric elements. Angelini’s work is concerned with problems that affect nature, territory, and identity, with particular reference to those in South America. Her main aim is to study the landscape, pulling from a wide range of images gleaned from her time spent in Europe, and her time spent in Latin America. Within this, the artist draws on themes of visibility, latency and memory. Her work speaks to the particularity of location – across place, myth and history – in the construction of identity.

Education

2018-2020 MFA Fine Art: Media, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK

2013-2014 Pedagogy Degree / Mention in Visual Art (Pedagogía mención Artes Visuales), Universidad Finis Terrae, Santiago, Chile

2009-2012 Bachelor in Fine Art (BFA) / Mention in Printmaking and Photography at Universidad Finis Terrae, Santiago, Chile

Awards

2019 Shortlisted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries

2018-2020 Chilean government scholarship “Becas Chile”, to study MFA Fine Art at UCL

2018 Honourable mention in “Young Talent” Contest, Santiago’s Municipality (Premio Municipal de artes visuales), Chile

2017 Shortlisted in XI Art Contest MAVI Contemporary Art, in Museo de Artes visuales MAVI (Museum of Visual Art), Chile

2015 First-prize in photography contest “Concurso Arte Joven” from Gallery Artespacio in 2015, Chile

2012 Honours degree and best undergraduate, Universidad Finis Terrae, Chile

Residencies

2019 Casa Della Capra Residency for international artists, Mergozzo, Italy

2015 Galería Factoría Santa Rosa Residency, Santiago, Chile

Exhibitions

2020

Imagino el mar, online solo-show at Sala de Arte CCU, Santiago, Chile

Nos Gustan Los Estudiantes V, Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile

Form, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea

Life of my life, online show curated by Lopez-Chahoud, Vitrina Lab, Miami, FL

Silent Cities, Millepiani Gallery, Rome, Italy

London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

RCA & Slade Degree Show, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK

Yearbook 2020, online show organised by Shutter Hub

Correspondence, online show organised by Art Connect, London, UK

Words to be looked at, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK

Intimacy Spills, Barbican Arts Group Trust, ArtWorks Project Space, London, UK

2019

The Graduate Art Prize Exhibition, ARTIQ HQ, London, UK

Interim Show, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK

Visions of protest, Blake the march, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK

Transitive states, The Framers Gallery, London, UK

Woman in photography, Slade Research Centre, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK

2018

Piedra negra I, Centro cultural España (Spanish cultural Centre), curatorial text by Cristian Silva, Santiago, Chile

Piedra negra II, Galería Casa Colorada (Museum of Santiago), Santiago, Chile

Young talents, Gallery Posada del Corregidor, Santiago, Chile

2017

Cordón de plata at Gallery Cerro San Cristobal, Ccuratorial text by Mario Fonseca, Santiago, Chile

XI Art Contest MAVI/Minera Escondida Contemporary Art, Museo de Artes visuales, Santiago, Chile

2016

Third image, Balmaceda Arte Joven Gallery, Santiago, Chile

2015

El cerro del silencio I and II , Department 44 Gallery and Sala de exposiciones UFT, Finis Terrae University, Santiago, Chile

Concurso Artespacio Joven, Artespacio Gallery, Santiago, Chile

2014

Ciudad Sísifo (Sisyphus’s City), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile

Fourth under the subway video art night, at Local Project Art Space & The Local NYC, New York, NY

0 a la izquierda, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Museum of Fine Art), Santiago, Chile

Publications

2019 “Cascada de piedra/Stone Waterfall”, artist photo book, self published, text by Carol Illanes, London, UK