Ana Raquel
"Guaricha"

Artist

Ana Raquel
"Guaricha"

Ana Raquel is a Salvadorean, Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist, art educator, and mother. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD), with a major in Photography.

Her artistic approach and work revolves mostly around the multiple forms of life and how they manifest themselves through her womanhood and Latin American heritage. The choice of media for Ana Raquel, responds to the subject matter she wants to depict, therefore, her explorations throughout her artistic career has allowed her to experiment with collage,transfers, photography, public interventions, textiles, drawing and painting.

Through a feminine lens, her illustrations portray her own personal and spiritual journeys, as well as her interpretation of the myths and cosmovisions of the peoples of Meso-America and the Andes. The figure, line and color play a poetic role in the interpretations of these topics, which in many cases are also a response to societys absurdities and the influence of her own upbringing, her search for a rooted identity, her own motherhood and cultural baggage.

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Dec
2023

El Taller del Artista, Antigua, Guatemala
“Pausa Colectiva”, Group Exhibition

Oct
2023

Colborne Art Gallery, Colborne, Canada
“Art and Heritage”, Group Exhibition

Sept
2023

Women's Art Association of Canada, Toronto, Canada
“Butterfly Effect/Efecto Mariposa”, Juried Exhibition"

Sept
2023

Trinity Bellwoods Park, Toronto, Canada
“Queen West Art Crawl”, Art Fair."

Sept
2023

Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada
“Butterfly Effect/Efecto Mariposa”, Juried Exhibition

Sept
2023

Trinity Bellwoods Park, Toronto, Canada
Toronto Artisan Market, Art Fair

Mar
2022

Casa Maíz Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada
“A tomar las Artes”, Group Exhibition"

July
2021

Art Ignite, Toronto, Canada
“All Around Us”, Group Exhibition"

Apr
2021

Propeller Gallery, Toronto, Canada
“Altered Images At Hand”, Group Exhibition"

Mar
2021

Casa Maíz Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada
“A tomar las Artes”, Group Exhibition"

Oct
2020

Peter MacKendrick Community Gallery, Toronto, Canada
“La Cosecha / Harvesting Bones”, Group Exhibition

Mar
2020

Casa Maíz Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada
“A tomar las Artes”, Group Exhibition

Mar
2019

Casa Maíz Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canadá
“A tomar las Artes”, Group Exhibition

Oct
2007

JAC Acevedo Quesada, Bogotá, Colombia
“BAC Arte Conexión”, Solo Exhibition

July
2004

Nathan Philips Square, Toronto, Canada
“Toronto Outdoor Exhibition”, Juried Exhibition

Jan
2004

Kabat-Wrobel Gallery, Toronto, Canada
“Relatos/Tales”, Solo Exhibition

Nov
2003

Galeria/Taller de Arte Luis Cogliolo, Aregua, Paraguay
“…pasos”, Solo Exhibition

May
2003

A.W.O.L. Gallery, Toronto, Canada
“Within”, Group Exhibition (Part of Contact 2003)

Dec
2002

A.W.O.L. Gallery, Toronto, Canada
“Light Expectancy”, Group Exhibition

Nov
2002

Wagner Rosenbound Galery, Toronto, Canada
“Fragile”, Juried Exhibition

Aug
2002

Kabat-Wrobel Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Latin American Art, Group Exhibition

June
2002

Open City, Toronto, Canada
“Extravaganza”, Juried Exhibition

Dec
2001

Galery 44, Toronto, Canada
“Photorama”, Group Exhibition

Feb
1999

OCAD Atrium Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Latin American Artist Collective Annual Exhibition

May
1998

Nora Vaughn Gallery, Toronto, Canada
“Still Unknown”, Group Exhibition (Part of Contact 98)

Feb
1998

OCAD Atrium Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Latin American Artists Collective Annual Exhibition

Nov
1997

OCAD Atrium Gallery, Toronto, Canada
“Re-membering”, Juried Exhibition

Mar
1997

OCAD Atrium Gallery, Toronto, Canada
“Trazos”, Latin American Artist Collective Annual Exhibition

Nov
1996

Gallery 401, Toronto, Canada
“Mirada”, Juried Exhibition

Mar
1996

OCAD Atrium Gallery, Toronto, Canada
“Tapiz”, Latin American Artist Collective Annual Exhibition

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