Ximena Armas

Ximena Armas
Ximena Armas
Born	Marta Ximena Armas Fernández; 29 July 1946; Santiago, Chile
Education	University of Chile; Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, 1969; École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, 1974; Beaux-Arts de Paris, 1974;
Occupations	Painter; drafter; engraver;
Spouse	Henri Richelet (died 2020)
Website	ximena.armas.free.fr; x.armas.free.fr; ximena.armas.2.free.fr/;

Marta Ximena Armas Fernández (born 29 July 1946) is a Chilean painter, drafter and engraver active in France.^[1]^[2]

Biography

Armas was born Marta Ximena Armas Fernández on 29 July 1946 in Santiago, Chile.^[1] Armas studied for a year at the Arts Faculty of the University of Chile.^[1] From 1965 to 1969, Armas studied painting, graphic design, and film at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile under Mario Carreño, Eduardo Vilches, and Mario Toral.^[1]^[2]

Awarded a scholarship by the French government in 1970, and settled in Paris the following year.^[1]^[2] Armas studied mural painting under Georges Rohner and Jacques Despierre at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, and painting and lithography at the Beaux-Arts de Paris from 1971 to 1974.^[1] Armas was married to the French painter Henri Richelet.^[1]^[3]

Since 1969, she has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Chile, France, Spain, and Mexico. Works by Armas are held at the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, University of Talca and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Julio Cortázar.^[1]

Espace latino-américain, Paris

Galerie de la Main de fer, Perpignan, France

Galería La Fachada, Santiago, Chile

Galerie Ceibo, Paris

Galería Modigliani, Viña del Mar, Chile

Galería Praxis, Santiago, Chile

Art pour le Nicaragua, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris

Cent gravures contemporaines

1982: Chili Vivant, Mexico
1983: Chili-femmes, Espace latino-américain, Paris
1984: Peintres latino-américains, Monaco
1986: Les Figurations de 1960 à nos jours, Musée de Cagnes-sur-Mer, E.B.A. de Besançon, Musée de Carcassonne, Couvent des Cordeliers de Châteauroux, France
1989: Musée de l'Amérique latine, Monaco
1990: Art chilien d'aujourd'hui, Espace Belleville and UNESCO, Paris
1991: Festival international de la peinture, Château-musée de Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
1995:

Femmes ibéro-américaines, Junta de Extramadura, Caceres, Espagne

Présence du Chili en France, Galería Plastica Nueva, Santiago, Chile

1996: Artistes Chiliens en France, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile
1997:

Festival des arts 1997 – Dialogue Est-Ouest, Vayolles, Vienne, France

Persistance du paysage dans la peinture chilienne, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile

2003: Hommage à S. Allende, Centre culturel Robert-Desnos, Ris-Orangis, France
2004: George Sand, interprétations, Couvent des Cordeliers, Châteauroux, France
2007: Santiago Paris Santiago, Galería La Ventana Cemicual, Santiago, Chile
2022-2023: 58th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, États-Unis

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Ximena Armas". Artistas Visuales Chilenos (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 16 July 2026.
1 2 3 Dumas, Julien (2016). Artfabetic: Dictionnaire biographique des artistes plasticiens de France (tome 1) (in French). Perpignan: Association Concordia Patrimoine et Culture. ISBN 978-2-7466-8324-2. Retrieved 16 July 2026.}
↑ Lebeau, Élodie (2016). Le Musée international de la Résistance Salvador Allende en France (1975-1991): l'odyssée d'une collection d'art contemporain en exil (pdf) (Master's thesis) (in French). Vol. 2. Toulouse: Université Jean-Jaurès. p. 127. Retrieved 3 April 2019.

Xuriguera, Gérard [in French] (1983). Regards sur la peinture contemporaine (in French). Paris: éditions Mayer.
Xuriguera, Gérard [in French] (1985). Les Figurations de 1960 à nos jours (in French). Paris: éditions Mayer.
Xuriguera, Gérard [in French] (1987). Le Dessin, le Pastel, l'Aquarelle dans l'art contemporain (in French). Paris: éditions Mayer.
Anonymous (1993). Paris 13^e: l'Art sous toutes ses formes (in French). Paris: éditions Fus-Art.
Anonymous (1996). Grand annuaire des arts sur CD-ROM (in French). Paris: éditions France Art.
Anonymous (1999). Le Poids de l'art de l'Amérique latine (in French). Paris: éditions France Art.
Mohebbi, Sohrab; Heiman, Talia; Inouye, Ryan, eds. (2022). Is it Morning For You Yet? 58th Carnegie International Catalogue. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0-88039-070-5.

Authority control databases
International	VIAF WorldCat
National	United States