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:

 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.