ABOUT

 

Born in Venezuela and growing up between France and Morocco, after graduating with a Masters in Arts Administration from Colombia University, Yvonne began her New York professional art career with the blue-ship McKee Gallery, crossing back and forth between the public and private sectors, working for the Studio Museum in Harlem, The National Art Gallery in Caracas and Christies’ NYC, among others.

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She has been working with interdisciplinary and innovative practices rooted in the moving image and has conceived and realized pioneering and ground-breaking projects in the field, in Athens, Paris, New York and Mexico City.In 1996, she founded Clinica Aesthetica, NYC, an alternative and experimental space dedicated to the production of cultural concepts, believing in the transformational power of art she created projects from inception to realization, building intrinsic collaborations with artists like Sam Samore, Kim Sooja, Ange Leccia, Felice Varini, Vik Muniz and Janaina Tschape to quote a few, as well as organizations and companies, like Creative Time Inc and the prestigious cosmetic firm Shu Uemura.

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Yvonne currently lives in the South of Spain and in parallel to being a Founding Partner of MELD, is working on a number of art productions for a select group of visual artists, like Australian artist Shaun Gladwell “1000 Horses,” commissioned by the Sherman Foundation, Sydney showcased at The Tel Aviv Museum of Art. And “Skateboarders vs Minimalism” a travelling multimedia performative video piece. “Under the Same Sky we Dream” Erika Harssch, traveling multimedia video installation. She recently co-curated TRACE  a digital exhibition traveling to Salon Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade and ProArts, Oackland, CA