Feathers, 2025

Vero Gonzalez Ugarte  

Vero González Ugarte (Santiago, Chile, 1973) is a Chilean contemporary visual artist living and working between Santiago and Barcelona. Her practice explores nature, landscape, memory, and territory through a material and poetic approach, moving between drawing, printmaking, mixed media, textile art, and installation.

Working primarily with paper, silk, and linen, González Ugarte combines drawing, traditional printmaking techniques, and textile processes with contemporary practices, including painting, stitching, perforation, and the transformative use of fire. Through repetition, rhythm, and meticulous handwork, organic forms such as leaves, botanical structures, and fragments of landscape are transformed into layered compositions that move between two and three dimensions. Her work reflects on the traces left by nature, the passage of time, and the relationship between material, memory, and place.

González Ugarte has held more than fifteen solo exhibitions, including Ceniza y Huella (Galería Artespacio, Santiago, 2025), Un infinito de verdes (Galería Sextante, Bogotá, 2023), and Cien vistas del Monte (Galería Artespacio, Santiago, 2021). Her work has been presented internationally at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol and in the context of the Cuenca Biennial in Ecuador. Her works are held in public and private collections across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, with commissions including Celebrity Xcel, Boston Children's Hospital, and Four Seasons Hotel Hangzhou.