Soledad Sevilla
{{Short description|Spanish painter (born 1944)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Soledad Sevilla
| image = Soledad Sevilla - IVAM.jpg
| birth_name = Soledad Sevilla Portillo
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1944}}
| birth_place = Valencia, Spain
| education = Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi, Complutense University of Madrid
| occupation = Painter, installation artist
| awards = National Award for Plastic Arts (1993)
| website = {{URL|https://www.soledadsevilla.com/}}
}}
Soledad Sevilla Portillo (born 1944) is a Spanish painter, and installation artist; known for large-format paintings, featuring geometric abstraction and spatial installations. She lives in Granada, Spain.{{Cite web |date=October 31, 2011 |title=Sevilla, Soledad |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/display/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00168176 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00168176}}
Early life and education
Soledad Sevilla Portillo was born on 1944, in Valencia, Spain. She studied at the Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi from 1960 to 1965, and continued her studies at the Computing Center of the Complutense University of Madrid from 1969 to 1971.
Career
At the end of the 1960s she began her painting career, focused on abstract and geometric work. In the early 1980s she incorporated installations into her work. She was awarded the National Award for Plastic Arts in 1993.{{Cite news |last=Huici |first=Fernando |date=December 22, 1993 |title=Soledad Sevilla gana el Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas |trans-title=Soledad Sevilla wins the National Prize for Plastic Arts |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1993/12/22/cultura/756514805_850215.html |access-date=2025-04-13 |work=El País |language=es |issn=1134-6582}}
The Institut Valencià d'Art Modern in Valencia held a solo exhibition of her work in 2001. The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid held a solo retrospective exhibition of her work in 2024, Rhythms, Plots, Variables ({{Langx|es|Ritmos, tramas y variables}}).{{Cite web |last=Hernando |first=Silvia |date=2024-09-25 |title=Las líneas rectas de Soledad Sevilla cierran el círculo de su trayectoria |trans-title=Soledad Sevilla's straight lines close the circle of her career |url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2024-09-25/las-lineas-rectas-de-soledad-sevilla-cierran-el-circulo-de-su-trayectoria.html |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=El País |language=es}}{{Cite web |last=Lorenci |first=Miguel |date=2024-09-25 |title=El esplendor geométrico de Soledad Sevilla en el Reina Sofía |trans-title=The geometric splendor of Soledad Sevilla at the Reina Sofía |url=https://www.lasprovincias.es/culturas/esplendor-geometrico-soledad-sevilla-reina-sofia-20240925141855-ntrc.html |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=Las Provincias |language=es}}{{Cite web |last=Mindlin |first=Valerie |date=November 26, 2024 |title=Soledad Sevilla: Ritmos, tramas, variables |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2024/12/artseen/soledad-sevilla-ritmos-tramas-variables/ |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=The Brooklyn Rail |language=en}}
Her work is in museum collections, including at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art;{{Cite web |title=Soledad Sevilla Portillo |url=https://xarxa.museunacional.cat/artista/soledad-sevilla-portillo/ |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=Xarxa de Museus d’Art de Catalunya |language=ca}} and Museu d'Art Jaume Morera in Lleida, Catalonia.
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Category:20th-century Spanish painters
Category:21st-century Spanish painters
Category:Painters from Valencia
Category:Complutense University of Madrid alumni
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