Verónica
Gómez

“In Verónica Gómez’s work, Spilimbergo’s metaphysical painting, gothic terror and the Argentine middle class born in the mid-twentieth century intersect. It could even be said that in a surreptitious way her series “La casa de las niñas inusuales” (The house of the unusual girls) is part of an ornamental treatise dedicated to the insignia of upward social mobility. There are the parquet floors, the laminates that look like marble, the granite-like ceramics, the beds with turned wooden backs…”.

Bio

Artist and Educator. A National Professor of Painting (ENBAPP) and a graduate in Visual Arts.
She has received numerous grants, including the Visual Arts Clinic at C. C. Rojas (2006), the Intercampos Program from Espacio Fundación Telefónica (2005), the Creation Grant from the National Arts Fund (FNA) (2004 and 2012), and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in New York (2016).

She has participated in both solo and group exhibitions in Argentina and internationally, including: the Petrobrás Prize for Visual Arts, ArteBA (2007); the II Biennial of the End of the World, Tierra del Fuego (2009); the X Biennale de Lyon, Institut d’art contemporain, France (2009); “Últimas Tendencias II”, Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires (2012); “Reino Pelícano”, Foster Catena Gallery (2012); “(Des) proporciones”, National Arts Fund, Buenos Aires (2012); “Acrónica”, MAT (Museum of Art of Tigre) (2012); “Pet Portraits”, Eduardo Sívori Museum of Plastic Arts, Buenos Aires (2013); “Fulgor”, Gachi Prieto Latin American Art, Buenos Aires (2013); “Aída and the Escape of the Bald Men”, Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires (2013); “Sovereignty of Use”, OSDE Foundation Art Space (2014); “Doing with What’s Done”, Municipal Museum of Modern Art of Cuenca, Ecuador (2015); II Jerusalem Biennale, “It has always been the book”, Van Leer’s Polonsky Research Institution, Israel (2015); “The Edge of Ice”, Gachi Prieto Latin American Art (2016); “The Mysteries of Udolpho”, Casa Tomada, Casa Nacional del Bicentenario (2016); “Suihkulädepatsaat”, Nelimarkka Museum, Finland (2017); “Disarticulations”, Blau Projects Gallery, São Paulo (2017); “Against the Sun”, Recoleta Cultural Center (2018); “The Adversary”, Klemm Foundation (2019); “Lar, doce lar”, Bienalsur, Brazilian Embassy in Argentina (2019); “Ways of Seeing, Forms of Looking”, Quadro Gallery (2019); “The Fold of Space”, Quadro Gallery (2020); “The Waves of Desire”, CNB, Buenos Aires, 2022; “Tragic and Erotic”, Pólvora 720, Buenos Aires, 2021; “Kaleidoscope” (Ansaldi, Gómez, Guerra, Irisarri, Mercure, Sánchez), Jorge Mara-La Ruche Gallery, Buenos Aires, 2021; “The Houses of Unusual Girls”, Fortabat Collection, 2023; “The Dangerous Garments”, COTT Gallery, 2024; “The Fable of Reason and Other Possible Realities”, CCK, 2024; “A World That Cannot Sleep”, Borges Cultural Center, 2024, among others.

She has received the following awards: First Acquisition Prize at the 64th National Salon of Rosario, Juan B. Castagnino Museum of Fine Arts; Honorable Mention at the Braque Prize, Museum of the University of Tres de Febrero (2013); First Prize at the XXI Klemm Prize for Visual Arts (2017); Acquisition Prize for 8M 2022, CCK; Art Week Prize 2022; Grand Acquisition Prize from the National Arts Fund (2022); XVI Painting Prize from the Central Bank of Argentina (2023).

In 2015, she attended the Arteles Creative Residency Program in Hämeenkyrö, Finland, and in 2017 the Nelimarkka Museum Residency in Alajärvi, Finland. In 2025, she participated in the Mil Gotas Residency for Latin American artists in Beijing, China.

Her work is part of the collections of the National Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, Banco Supervielle, Castagnino-MACRo, Palais de Glace, National Arts Fund, Central Bank of the Argentine Republic, Balanz Collection, Franklin Rawson Provincial Museum of Fine Arts, and private collections.