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Nerza Villegas

Nerza Villegas was born in the city of San Cristóbal, Venezuela and currently resides in Spain. He began to study drawing in a self-taught way in Colombia, and studied Plastic Arts at the University of La Sabana in Bogotá, in the year (1996), and then painting in San Pablo, Brazil, in ABRA (2000) he also attended different workshops in Madrid, Spain (2002). 

She has lived in countries like Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay, and Panama, where she has continued her artistic training. In Montevideo, Uruguay (2006), she studied in workshops of artists such as Miriam Núñez and Cléver Lara and attended the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay; in said capital in the year (2004), one of her watercolors, titled “the dream", was selected for an exhibition in the “Peace in the World" contest organized by B'nai b'rith of Uruguay. In the first painting contest of the Golf Club in Panama, her painting on hole 1 obtained the 2nd. Award (2008). 

In 2014, she obtained a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, Nerza Villegas has made different group and individual exhibitions, and her works are in private collections in Uruguay, Venezuela, the United States, Panama and Spain. Her work can be found at the Weil Art Gallery in Panama, and the Art Nou Mil.lenni Gallery in Barcelona, Spain. 

EXHIBITIONS AND COMPETITIONS • ABRA (Brazilian Association of Art), Sao Pablo, Brazil (2000 - 2001). • Banco República Club, Montevideo, Uruguay (2004). • Archive of the city, Municipal Government of Montevideo, Uruguay, sponsored by the Embassy of Venezuela (2004). • Peace in the World Contest, by B'nai b'rith del Uruguay, Shopping Montevideo (2004). • APEU Art Fair, Uruguay, Montevideo (2004). • Bazaar Embassy of Venezuela in Casa Rivera, Montevideo, Uruguay (2004). • Group exhibition 4 artists 4 styles, Hipódromo Nacional de Maroñas, Montevideo, Uruguay (2004). • Molino de Pérez collective exhibition "Human Figure", Montevideo, Uruguay (2005). • El Gran Maroñas Restaurant, National Racecourse of Maroñas, Montevideo, Uruguay (2005). • Banco República Club, Montevideo, Uruguay (2005). • Shopping Punta Carretas, auction for the benefit of Pereira Roussel Hospital, (2005). • Calvo-Vini Gallery, Punta Paitilla, Panama. (2007). • Contest Rotary Club of San Cristóbal, Venezuela (2008). • Tinta Y Café At the Punta Pacifica clinic, Panama (2008). • 7 artists at Tinta y Café, Clínica Punta Pacifica, Panama (2008). • Panama Golf Club Contest, Panama, 2nd. Award (2008). • Weil Art Gallery, las Bóvedas, Panamá (2009). • Weil Art Gallery, Casa Góngora, Panama (2009). • Tinta Y Café at the Punta Pacifica clinic, Panama (2009.) • Panama Golf Club Contest, Panama, 2nd. Award (2009). • Enmkarte, Individual exhibition MOMENTOS, Madrid, Spain. (2010) • Cultural activities week in Boadilla del Monte. Solidarizarte con el Arte, Solo exhibition, Madrid - Spain (2010) • Collective Museum Postal- Prado Express, Gallery stamp, Madrid Spain. (2012) • Márquez de Valdecilla Historical Library, Exhibition Collective Mythologies. Madrid - Spain, (2012). • Complutense University of Madrid, Collective Exhibition Art in Process. Madrid, Spain (2015) • Association of Spanish painters and sculptors. Trazados e Impresiones Collective. Madrid Spain (2015) • Fair in Macao, China Art Nou Mileni Gallery Barcelona, Spain (2015) • Palacio Infante Don Luis, Collective exhibition La Countess of Chinchón, Boadilla del Monte, Spain (2015) • Palace of the Mosquera de Arenas de San Pedro, Collective exhibition La Condesa de Chinchón, Spain (2016) • Moncloa cultural center, collective, ARTE CONTEMPORARY IBEROAMERICAN. Painting and Sculpture, (2016) • Matilda Café cantina, Solo exhibition Nudes sublimes, Madrid, (2016) • Artimaña Bookstore. Interventions and Illusions. Madrid, (2016) • Artbaho 2016, International Contemporary Art, 4 edition. Barcelona, (2016) • Municipal Museum of Valdepeñas. Real city. Living room Valdepeñas Spring, (2016) • Eka & Moor Art Gallery. Collective Exhibition, Madrid. (2016) • Art Nou MIlilenni Gallery. Collective exhibition, Color and life, Barcelona, (2016) • Pablo Picasso Cultural Center, Concavo y convexo, Collective ArtUpstairs Colmenar Viejo Madrid, Spain (2017) • Eduardo Chillida Gallery, 02, ArtUpstairs Collective. Moratalaz, Madrid, Spain (2017) • Bullfighting Museum, La estocada, Collective ArtUpstairs, Pinto, Madrid, Spain (2017) • Casona Sur Gallery, Melena del Sur, Mayabaque, Cuba (2017) • II Contest Small Format Salon, La 4etra, Cuba (2017) • Municipal Exhibition Hall, Torrejón de Ardoz, From color to speech, Madrid, Spain, (2018) • Getafe Market Space, Madrid, Spain, Convergent Realities, (2018) • Boadilla del Monte Training Center, Madrid, Spain; Convergent Realities, (2018) • Yuri López Kullins Gallery, Expo your art, Madrid Spain; (2018) • Yuri López Kullins Gallery, Collective exhibition Free art; Madrid Spain.