YVONNE DOMENGE GAUDRY
Curriculum Vitae
She
was born in Mexico City in 1946. She studied plastic arts in Mexico
City, in Montreal and in Washington D.C. as well. She has taken part in
different workshops on painting, sculpture and material techniques such
as gilding, enameling and wood carving under the guidance of professors
Kitzia Hofmann, Alberto Pérez Soria and Somsy Smuthart.
Yvonne has also studied
Human Development in the Iberoamericana University of Mexico City and
has taught, children, tee-agers and adults, artistic appreciation as
well as art therapy throughout sculpture and drawing.
Some
of theses courses are Social Projects for low-income communities. Among
them is:
- The New Millennium
Emerging Housing Program for Chiapas (Programa Emergente de Vivienda
para Chiapas Nuevo Milenio) in the State of Chiapas, Mexico.
- She is currently
directing the project “Sculptures created by the Community of the
Buenos Aires Neighborhood” (Esculturas Realizadas por la Comunidad de
la Col. Buenos Aires), a socio-creative project supported by the FONCA
from 1999 to 2002.
- Sculptors and
craftsmen Symposium of Merida Yucatan. Where the sculptures were made
out of the fallen trees by Isidoro hurricane in 2002.
Over
the last 35 years, Domenge's work has been focused in sculpture. She's
had more than 40 individual exhibitions and has also taken part in more
than 160 collective shows in several cities across Mexico, and around
the world, in Museums such as Modern Art Museum in Mexico City,
Contemporary Art Museum of Monterrey (MARCO) and The Louvre Museum in
Paris.
Her
sculptures are featured in the collections of several Mexican museums,
such as the Modern Art Museum INBA, Chopo University Museum,
Universum Museum, Light Museum (Museo de la Luz) all last
three are UNAM Museums. As well as in Museums of other Mexican cities,
such as State of Mexico's Modern Art Museum, Tijuana's Cultural Center,
Manuel Felguérez Abstract Art Museum in Zacatecas and the History and
Art Museum of Guanajuato.
On
the other hand, Yvonne Domenge's sculptures are included in several
private and public cultural fonds as: Mexico's Palacio Nacional,
National Institute of Nuclear Investigations at the State of Mexico,
Energy
Investigation Institute UNAM at Temixco, Morelos, Botanical
Garden at Culiacan, Sinaloa, The Olympic Park's Sculptor Space of
Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mandarin Royal Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo
and Liverpool of Cuernavaca, Morelos.
Yvonne
Domenge has designed the Museo del Niño (Children Museum) gardens in
Jalapa, Veracruz. Her sculptures are also featured in the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs building in Mexico City, the Chase Manhattan Bank,
Hewlett-Packard, Televisa and the National Auditorium both in Mexico
City.
Her
pieces can be also found in many superior teaching institutions:
Monterrey
Technological Superior Studies Institute at State of Mexico Campus,
Xochimilco's UAM University, Science and Technology National Library in
the National Polytechnic Institute, Superior Studies Faculty Zaragoza
of UNAM in Mexico City.
Yvonne
Domenge's work can be found all over the globe in such diverse places
as the World Bank, Washington D.C.; The Toyamura General Center,
Abutagun in Hokkaido Island, Japan; PG & Energy Services
Company and Novell, Inc., both in San Francisco, California; Chevron
Texaco in San Ramon, California; As well as in The House of Mexico in
the Cité Universitaire, Paris.
She has been honored with
awards and distinctions: the Camille Claudel Acquisition
Award, La Bresse, France; International Second Place in Ice Art,
Fairbanks, Alaska; Eurosculpture Acquisition Award, Bardonecchia,
Italy; Piece selected and purchased for the International Toyamura
Sculpture Biennial '97, Toyamura General Center, Abutagun in Hokkaido
Island, Japan; First place in the Sixth Mexinox Latin American
Industrial Design Award 1996, Mexico City, Mexico; As well as first
place in Creativity in Steel, National Chamber of Iron and Steel;
Woman's Achievement Award “Pergamino Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2003”;
And the first place in the International Plastic Arts Contest “Visiones
Convergentes”, CNN In Spanish. Artist selected for the Second Beijing
International Art Biennial 2005, China.
Sculpture
selected and acquired by “The International Sculpture and Cultural Year
of Zhengzhou” Henan, China. Selected Sculptor for the International
Olympic Sculptures Exhibition in Beijing 2008 - "Olympic Landscape
Sculpture Design Contests and International Traveling Exhibition",
China. Selected artist to represent Mexico in the International
Sculpture Biennial in Vancouver 2008-2010, Canada. Diplôme de Médaille
de Vermeil award by the Société Académique
Arts-Sciences-Lettres in Paris, France. A tribute to her career is
evident in the fact that the Galería del Sur (South Gallery) of the UAM
University is named after her.
She has been member of the
Sculpture Consultative Commission of the CONACULTA (National
Cultural and Artistic Council), she has been part of the Creators
National System since 1997 and as explained before, she directs, since
1999, the project “Sculptures created by the Community of the
Buenos Aires Neighborhood” (Esculturas Realizadas por la Comunidad de
la Col. Buenos Aires), a socio-creative project supported by the
Project Support and Cultural Coproduction Program.