Biography
She was born in Mexico City in 1946 and has taught artistic appreciation as well as art therapy in sculpture and drawing. She has also coordinated many forums in Mexico and abroad. Yvonne Domenge has sculpted in wood, stone, cement, clay, onyx, marble, stainless and carbon steel, silver, ice, resin, wax, soap and porcelain.
With proverbial generosity, for many years she has work to discover, rescue and guide young sculptors in the creation of their work, as part of the FONCA (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y Las Artes) program. Throughout her artistic career, she has developed many social projects to enhance the human and artistic growth of her country. 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, where several of her sculptures can be found. She is an artistic creator for the National System of Art Creators (Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte) since 1997. She is currently collaborating with 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 begun in 1999, through the Program for the Development of Cultural Projects and Co-investments (Programa de Fomento a Proyectos y Coinversiones Culturales).
She studied plastic arts at the Outremont School in Montreal, Canada; at the Corcoran School of Art, Washington D.C. U.S.A.; and in Mexico City. 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.
Over the last 30 years she's had more than 35 individual exhibitions in several cities across Mexico, as well as in France, the United States and Canada. She has also taken part in more than 160 collective shows in Mexico, USA, Puerto Rico, Belgium, Italy, Slovakia, Cuba, Jamaica, Spain, Austria, France, Canada and Japan.
Her sculptures are featured in the collections of several Mexican museums, companies and institutions, such as the Modern Art Museum, Chopo University Museum, Universum Museum UNAM, De la Luz Museum UNAM, José Luis Cuevas Museum, State of Mexico's Modern Art Museum, Monterrey Museum, Tijuana's Cultural Center, Manuel Felguérez Abstract Art Museum, Jorge Chávez Carrillo Contemporary Art Museum in Colima, National Institute of Nuclear Investigations at the State of Mexico, Energy Investigation Institute of UNAM at Temixco, Morelos, Botanical Garden at Culiacan, Sinaloa, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Auditorium, Chase Manhattan Bank, Hewlett-Packard, Televisa, Monterrey Technological Superior Studies Institute at State of Mexico Campus, UAM University, Science and Technology National Library, National Polytechnical Institute, Superior Studies Faculty Zaragoza of UNAM, and the Olympic Park's Sculptor Space of Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Mandarin Royal Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Liverpool of Cuernavaca, Morelos. Design of the gardens of the Child Museum at Jalapa, Veracruz.
Yvonne Domenge's work can be found all over the globe in such diverse places as the World Bank, Washington D.C., U.S.A.; The Toyamura General Center, Abutagun Hokkaido, Japan; PG & Energy Services Company and Novell, Inc., both in San Francisco, California, U.S.A.; Chevron Texaco in San Ramon, California, U.S.A.; as well as in The House of Mexico at France, Cité Universitaire, Paris, France.
Her participation in several events has allowed her to be honored with awards and distinctions as: 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 Hokkaido, 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, Estate of Mexico; 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. Selected Sculpture and acquired for the International City of Sculpture and Cultural Year of Zhengzhou. Henan, China 2006. Selected Sculpture for 2008 Olympic Landscape Sculpture Design Contests and International Traveling Exhibition Golden medal from the Société Academic “Arts-Sciences-Lettres””. Paris, France, 2006. Artist selected from Mexico for the Vancouver Sculpture Biennale 2008-2010 from Mexico. 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.
