María Edwards
Santiago, Chile, 1982

After getting her Arts bachelor degree in Universidad Finis Terrae (Santiago, Chile, 2006), and her Diploma in Cinema Photography Direction, in Universidad de Chile, 2008, Edwards travels and settles in New York (2009-2012) in order to enhance her knowledge on Engraving and Artist book discipline, doing artistic residencies in School of Visual Arts and in Lower East Side Printshop.
Her work has been exhibited in Chile and abroad, in countries like Spain, United States, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, México, Paris, London and others. She has also taken part in international art fairs; Pinta Art Fair-New York, ArteBA-Buenos Aires, Art Lima-Peru, Arco-Madrid, YIA-Paris, ArtBo- Colombia, ChaCo-Chile.
She has recently been awarded the "Art for Science" award from the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT) Santiago, Chile. Nominated with the ArtNexus / EFG award at the International Art Fair, ArtLima 2015. Awarded by the European Network of Art and Digital Science with double residence (at the European Southern Observatory in the Atacama Desert and AEC Future Lab, Austria).

Photo: Brett C. Walters