Mercedes Pardo | |
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| Born | July 29, 1921 Caracas, Venezuela |
| Died | March 24, 2005 (aged 83) San Antonio de Los Altos, Venezuela |
| Nationality | Venezuelan |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Abstract Art |
| Spouses | Marco Bonta
(m. 1945, divorced)Alejandro Otero (m. 1951) |
Mercedes Clementina Marta del Carmen Pardo Ponte,[1] known as Mercedes Pardo (July 29, 1921 – March 24, 2005) was a Venezuelan abstract art painter.[2][3][4][5]
Pardo was born July 29, 1921 (or July 20, 1921, according to her obituary in El Pais[6]) in Caracas, Venezuela. By age 13 she began taking free classes at the Academia de Bellas Artes.[5]
In 1941 she joined the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Aplicadas in Caracas.[4] She was active in painting, printmaking, and collage, and in 1991 the National Art Gallery in Caracas held an exhibition to review her work from 1941 to 1991.[7][8]
In 1945 she married Marco Bonta, a professor of stained glass and mural painting. Their marriage was short.[5]
In 1947 she attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Santiago in Chile where she had her first one-woman show. In 1949 she moved to Paris and attended the École du Louvre.[5]
In 1951 she married the painter Alejandro Otero.[5]
She died on March 24, 2005, in San Antonio de Los Altos, Venezuela.[5]
The Fundación Alejandro Otero-Mercedes Pardo was established in 2016. It is located at Alejandro Otero and Mercedes Pardo's house in San Antonio de Los Altos.[9]
In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.[10]
