Zilia Sanchez - Artist Info

About Zilia Sanchez

  • Biography

    Zilia Sanchez was born in Havana, Cuba on July 12, 1928. She resided in Spain from 1960 to 1962, lived in the U.S.A. from 1962 to 1971 and in San Juan, Puerto Rico since 1971. In her artistic work she developed mostly painting, sculpture, drawing and scenographic design. Zilia graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro in 1957. Between the years 1966 and 1968 she studied at the Instituto Central de Conservación y Restauración in Madrid, Spain and from 1968 to 1970 she continued her education at the Pratt Institute in the city of New York, U.S.A.

    Her first individual exhibition took place in 1953; it was called "Zilia" like herself and took place at the Lyceum in Havana, Cuba. Already in 1965 she showed some of ...

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