Mer del Cielo

Brief Bio

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A native of Argentina, Mer del Cielo lived in New York City for three decades raising a human, animal and botanical family while working at the United Nations as a specialist in mobilizing resources for developing countries. 
 

In this connection, extensive travel in Africa and Latin America profoundly modified Mer del Cielo’s perception of the world and her own place in it, later becoming the source of what she calls artistic syncretism:  paintings that combine elements of ancestral cultures, evolution and nature with her own contemporary sensibility. 

After becoming a painter full-time, she returned to Argentina, before moving to Portugal in 2016.  Her paintings have been exhibited at museums, international art fairs and galleries in North America and Europe, and acquired by collectors in the U.S., Canada, Argentina, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal and Turkey.