Federico Ovalles

He studied drawing, painting and sculpting in the Cristobal Rojas School of Arts and in the Armando Reveron Institute of Visual Arts in Venezuela. In 1996 Ovalles-Ar became a resident of London for 6 years, where he studied drawing and painting in Westminster College; video art in the Camberwell School of Art and art and computing in the Tower Hamlet College. In 2005 he presented the individual exhibit Karakas in Office #1. In 2006 he received the 1st place in the XI Salón CANTV de Jóvenes with FIA and participated in a group exhibit Anxiety of the Influence, Wight biennial in the UCLA New Wight Gallery in Los Angeles. In 2007 he participated in the IX Francisco Narvaez Biennial of Sculpture in the island Margarita where he received an honorary mention. During 2008 he had an individual exhibit Area Typo in the Fernando Zubillaga gallery in Caracas and participated in a collective presented by Office #1 in ArteBA, in Buenos Aires; in Reflect/Refract in the Rich Gallery in London and in PINTA, Latin- American Contemporary Art Fair in New York City. During 2009 he participated in the exhibits Vision Constructiva in the GBG Arts in Caracas, Salida de Emergencia in Exis, Bogotá and in Espacio Diverso with La Casa in Quito, Ecuador. In 2010 he was present in the Venezuelan Pavilion in the Shoe Gallery in London and in Friends in the Cometa Gallery in in Bogota. . In 2010 he was present in the Venezuelan Pavilion in the Shoe Gallery in London and in FriendsintheCometaGalleryin inBogota. During 2011 he was included in La Otra, in the Alternative Art Fair in Bogotá. During 2012 he started the project Historiografía Marginal del Arte Venezolano with other Venezuela visual artists with presentations in various spaces in the city of Caracas. In 2013 he participated in a curatorial conception in Museable/ No Mueseable. In 2014 he was invited by the curator Jose Roca to compete in individual projects by PArC ian Lima where he received the price of best proposal. In May 2015 he got residency in Flora Ars Natura, Honda Colombia as a winner of the Beca PArC Scholarship and in June 2015 he was presented in the Flora Ars Natura gallery in Bogota and a solo show presented in Jacob Karpio Gallery called “Políticas de la contingencia”, in 2018, February 2020 colective exhibition “Traducciones” at Plural Nodo Cultural Bogotá and in November 2021 an individual exhibition at Galería Elvira Moreno “Utopian Inmaterialities”, 2022 is invited by the curator Gabriela Rangel to participate at REFERENTES section at ArtBo and SITIO section, 2022-2023-2024 has been represented at the Zona Maco Art Fair by the Galeria Elvira Moreno