MARIA ROSA JIJON
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María Rosa Jijón was
born in 1968 in Quito, Ecuador. She studied Art at the Universidad Central
del Ecuador and followed specialty courses at the Instituto Superior de
Arte in Habana, Cuba. She carried out her post-graduate work at the Kungliga
Konsthogskolan, Royal School of Arts in Stockholm, Sweden. Jijon currently
works and lives in Rome, Italy where she has developed several photographic
projects and sociological research, relating to the situation of men and
women immigrants in Italy. Her work was selected to participate in the Trienal
Poligrafica de San Juan, Puerto Rico 2004 and at the VIII Bienal Internacional
de Cuenca in 2004. Ms. Jijón is also a migrant rights activist with
Associazione Donne Immigrate ONLUS, where she participates in multicultural
education projects and cultural promotion. She has participated in several individual and group international exhibitions, among them: V & VI Salon Internacional de Arte Digital, La Habana, Cuba; III Bienal Iberoamericana de Arte, Lima 2002; fotoGrafia I & 2 Festival di Fotografia di Roma; Mujeres en la Plástica Ecuatoriana Casa de América, Madrid 2001; Mis Mujeres Galería Arte X Arte, Buenos Aires 2000, Encuentros Abiertos de Fotografia; Art Wired International Fotofest 2000, Houston 2000; Contemporary Ecuadorian Photography The Camera Club of New York, 1999,VI Bienal de Pintura de Cuenca 1998, and Foto Septiembre 1998, Houston Centre for Photography. |