Emilia Barrientos
Artist born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico
EDUCATION
2008 Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts- Paint
Humanities Department
University of Puerto Rico
Río Piedras Campus
San Juan Puerto Rico
2008 Summer Course
Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis
Faculté de Lettres
Nice, France
AWARDS / RECOGNITIONS
2008 Winner of the Annual Award by the UNESCO: “Joven destacada del Año 2008.”
(Distinguished Young Person of the Year 2008)
1999 Nominee and winner of an Award as one of the Designers of the New Millennium
by “IMAGEN” magazine. “Diseñadores del nuevo Milenio”
Casiano Communications Corp.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 De lo místico a lo abstracto, CAI Universidad Interamericana, San Juan. P.R.
2011 Otra Mirada, Delta Pico Gallery, San Juan, PR
2010 Ludismo abstracto, Aquarius Fine Art Gallery, Gurabo, P.R.
2010 Desplazamientos, Veve Gallery at the Intercontinental Hotel, Isla Verde, P.R.
2009 Ni hojuelas, ni miel, San Juan Baptist Gallery, San Juan, P.R.
2009 Exuberancias, Guatibirí Gallery, Río Piedras, P.R.
EXHIBITIONS
2019 Encuentros, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, San Juan, P.R.
2018 Silent Auction Reyes-Veray Collection, Arte FITS Foundation, Sala Exposiciones del Plata, Dorado, P.R.
2018 Encuentros, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, San Juan, P.R.
2017 Diasporarte 2017, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, Collective Show, Guaynabo, P.R.
2016 Expresión Artistíca, Unik Prestige Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2016 Diasporarte 2016, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, Collective Show, Guaynabo, P.R.
2016 Subasta Fundación Caritas de Puerto Rico, Viota Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2015 Diasporarte 2015, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, Collective Show, Guaynabo, P.R.
2015 Think Big, Artispazio, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2015 Paradigmas Estéticos, CAI Universidad Interamericana, Collective Show, San Juan. P.R.
2014 Diasporarte 2014, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, Collective Show, Guaynabo, P.R.
2014 Arte a tu Alcance II, Subasta silente, Escuela de Bellas Artes de Carolina, Carolina, P.R.
2014 Por la libre II, Cuartel Ballajá, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2013 Diasporarte 2013, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, collective Show, Guaynabo, P.R.
2013 Arte a tu Alcance I, Subasta silente, Escuela de Bellas Artes de Carolina, Carolina, P.R.
2013 Por la libre, Museo de Arte e Historia de Arecibo René Marqués, Collective Show, Arecibo, P.R.
2012 Diasporarte 2012, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, Collective Show, Guaynabo, P.R.
2012 Alma Ramera, Galería Zahir, Collective Show, San Sebastián, P.R.
2012 Polígrafos, 778 Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2011 Diasporarte 2011, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, Collective Show, Guaynabo, P.R.
2011 Embarcadero, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, PR..
2010 Historias Cotidianas, Revista ARTES, Collective Show, Santo Domingo, R.D.
2010 Diasporarte, Pamil Art Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2010 Santurce es Ley, Clandestino 787 Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2010 San Juan Street Show, Collective Intervention, San Juan, P.R.
2010 Aroma del color, Pamil Art Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2010 De papel y de barro, 778 Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2010 Vertientes Abstractas, 778 Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2010 Colectiva 17, 778 Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2010 Subasta Abrazo Caribeño, Respuesta, Collective Show, Santurce, P.R.
2010 Corpórea, Verdanza Hotel, Collective Show, Isla Verde, P.R.
2009 Diáspora Navideña, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2009 Colectiva de Navidad, 778 Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2009 Travesías, www.galeriaveve.com, First Physical Collective, San Juan, P.R.
2009 Puerto Rico Open at Meliá, Zegarra Foundation, Rio Grande, P.R.
2009 Bohemia y Galería: Honrando a Rafael Rivera Ortiz, Galería 778, Collective
Show, San Juan, P.R.
2009 Pulguero de los Artistas 2008, Invited Artist, Muñoz Rivera Park, San Juan, P.R.
2008 Pequeño formato …y algo más, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2008 Hermosas miniaturas, ARWI Foundation, Collective Show, Santurce, P.R
2008 100 kilates de 10, Code 3 Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R
2008 Herencia Hispana, Las Americas Museum, Collective Show, Miami, Florida.
2008 Pulguero de los artistas, Invited Artist, Muñoz Rivera Park, San Juan, P.R.
2007 Expo Guerra, Francisco Oller Gallery, one of 18 artists selected for a Collective Show,
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, P.R.
2007 Grad students' EXPO, Francisco Oller Gallery, University of Puerto Rico, Río
Piedras, P.R.
2007 Annual students' EXPO, Francisco Oller Gallery, fourteen artists selected for
a collective show, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, P.R.
2006 Annual students' EXPO, Francisco Oller Gallery, fourteen artists selected by a jury
For a collective show, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, P.R.
2005 Annual students' EXPO, Francisco Oller Gallery, twenty-five artists selected by a
jury for a collective show, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, P.R.
EXPERIENCE
2012- present Customer Service Representative Specialist - G07
Internal Revenue Service
Department of the Treasury
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
2011-2012 Retrieval Specialist
MRA DEPARTMENT
Humana
San Juan, Puerto Rico
2009-present Art teacher
Boys and Girls Clubs of PR
Carolina, Puerto Rico
2010-2011 Gallery Assistant
Galería 778
San Juan Puerto Rico
1999-2010 Sales representative and clerical assistant
Arthings Corp.
Santurce, Puerto Rico
2005-2011 Photographer and Graphic Designer
Independent
2005 Hostess
Puerto Rico Art week
Art week circuit
San Juan, Puerto Rico
1999 Certified Fashion Designer
Escuela de Diseño Lisa Thon
Santurce, Puerto Rico
PUBLICATIONS REGARDING EMILIA BARRIENTOS' WORK
2010 Historias Cotidianas, Revista Artes, No. 35, 2010
2010 Emilia Barrientos, Revista Artes, page 54, No. 34, 2010
2010 Hotel Intercontinental, Vocero newspaper: Escenario, page 78, Tuesday, March
17, 2010
2010 Muestra de arte, El Nuevo Día newspaper: Cultura, page 65, Thursday, March 18,
2010
2010 Hotel Intercontinental, Vocero newspaper: Escenario, page 40, Thursday. March
18, 2010.
2010 La Materia Desplazada de Emilia Barrientos, Art Updated #6, page 11, March 2010
2010 Corpórea, Art Updated #5, page 12, February 2010
2009 Emilia Barrientos, Arte Latinoamericano #18, page 67, July/ December 2009
2009 Pulguero de los Artistas, http//www.elnuevodia.com/pulguerodeartistas-
558119.html, Friday, April 17, 2009.
2009 El Pulguero de los artistas 2009, http://www.el-status.com/pulguero/index.html
April 18 & 19 2009.
2009 El pulguero de los artistas con variada muestra de arte contemporáneo,
Vocero newspaper: Escenario, page 31, Friday, April 17, 2009
2009 Emilia Barrientos, Exuberancias, http://dondeveoarte.com/?page_id=221, March
2009
2005 EXPO Anual 2005, www.mannonnetwork.com/NOCTAMBULO/EXPO Anual
2005
2003 Mucho talento en la búsqueda del vestuario, TeVe guÍa magazine: page 120 &
121, March 2003
2003 Casi listo el ajuar de la reina, Vocero newspaper: Extra, page 69, Wednesday,
March 5, 2003
2003 Ajuar digno de una soberana, El Nuevo Día newspaper, page 71, Thursday, April
24, 2003
2003 Camaleónica Carla Tricoli, Vocero newspaper: Extra, page 84, Thursday, April 24,
2003
2003 Carla Tricoli en los preparativos finales, Primera Hora newspaper: Así, page 42,
Thursday, April 24, 2003
2003 Ajuar digno de una reina, El nuevo día newspaper: Flash, page 89, Thursday
March 8, 2003
2003 Lista para hacer sus maletas, http://www.bellezanacional.com/images/ajuarcarla,
2003
2003 Un ajuar digno de una reina, Vocero newspaper: Extra, page 105, Thursday
March 8, 2003.
2001 Chispazos de la moda, El Vocero newspaper: Moda, pages E6 & E7, Tuesday,
October 16, 2001
2001 Gran desfile de “Chispazos de la moda”, Primera Hora newspaper: A tu manera /
Belleza y Moda, page 49, Tuesday, August 21, 2001
2000 Nuestros nuevos diseñadores, Imagen Magazine, Notimodas, page 70, March
2000
2000 A la plaza la moda, El Nuevo Día newspaper, Por dentro, pages 80 & 81, Tuesday,
December 26, 2000
2000 Emilia Del Mar Barrientos en el desfile anual de la calle, Imagen Magazine, page
70, December 2000
1999 Diseñadores del nuevo milenio, Imagen Magazine, pages 74-75, December
1999
1999 Diseñadores del Futuro, El Nuevo Día, Por Dentro, pages 82 & 83, Tuesday,
December 21st, 1999
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS (partial list)
Reyes-Veray Collection, Puerto Rico
Schwartzkopff Collection, Switzerland
José Hernández, President of AREA place for projects, Puerto Rico
Casas Miantojo, Puerto Rico
Dr. José Andujar, Puerto Rico
Lic. Víctor Candelario, Puerto Rico
Lcda. Isis Pérez, Puerto Rico
Lucca Collection, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Barbot Collection, Miami, Florida
EDUCATION
2008 Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts- Paint
Humanities Department
University of Puerto Rico
Río Piedras Campus
San Juan Puerto Rico
2008 Summer Course
Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis
Faculté de Lettres
Nice, France
AWARDS / RECOGNITIONS
2008 Winner of the Annual Award by the UNESCO: “Joven destacada del Año 2008.”
(Distinguished Young Person of the Year 2008)
1999 Nominee and winner of an Award as one of the Designers of the New Millennium
by “IMAGEN” magazine. “Diseñadores del nuevo Milenio”
Casiano Communications Corp.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 De lo místico a lo abstracto, CAI Universidad Interamericana, San Juan. P.R.
2011 Otra Mirada, Delta Pico Gallery, San Juan, PR
2010 Ludismo abstracto, Aquarius Fine Art Gallery, Gurabo, P.R.
2010 Desplazamientos, Veve Gallery at the Intercontinental Hotel, Isla Verde, P.R.
2009 Ni hojuelas, ni miel, San Juan Baptist Gallery, San Juan, P.R.
2009 Exuberancias, Guatibirí Gallery, Río Piedras, P.R.
EXHIBITIONS
2019 Encuentros, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, San Juan, P.R.
2018 Silent Auction Reyes-Veray Collection, Arte FITS Foundation, Sala Exposiciones del Plata, Dorado, P.R.
2018 Encuentros, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, San Juan, P.R.
2017 Diasporarte 2017, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, Collective Show, Guaynabo, P.R.
2016 Expresión Artistíca, Unik Prestige Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2016 Diasporarte 2016, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, Collective Show, Guaynabo, P.R.
2016 Subasta Fundación Caritas de Puerto Rico, Viota Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2015 Diasporarte 2015, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, Collective Show, Guaynabo, P.R.
2015 Think Big, Artispazio, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2015 Paradigmas Estéticos, CAI Universidad Interamericana, Collective Show, San Juan. P.R.
2014 Diasporarte 2014, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, Collective Show, Guaynabo, P.R.
2014 Arte a tu Alcance II, Subasta silente, Escuela de Bellas Artes de Carolina, Carolina, P.R.
2014 Por la libre II, Cuartel Ballajá, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2013 Diasporarte 2013, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, collective Show, Guaynabo, P.R.
2013 Arte a tu Alcance I, Subasta silente, Escuela de Bellas Artes de Carolina, Carolina, P.R.
2013 Por la libre, Museo de Arte e Historia de Arecibo René Marqués, Collective Show, Arecibo, P.R.
2012 Diasporarte 2012, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, Collective Show, Guaynabo, P.R.
2012 Alma Ramera, Galería Zahir, Collective Show, San Sebastián, P.R.
2012 Polígrafos, 778 Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2011 Diasporarte 2011, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, Collective Show, Guaynabo, P.R.
2011 Embarcadero, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, PR..
2010 Historias Cotidianas, Revista ARTES, Collective Show, Santo Domingo, R.D.
2010 Diasporarte, Pamil Art Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2010 Santurce es Ley, Clandestino 787 Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2010 San Juan Street Show, Collective Intervention, San Juan, P.R.
2010 Aroma del color, Pamil Art Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2010 De papel y de barro, 778 Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2010 Vertientes Abstractas, 778 Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2010 Colectiva 17, 778 Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2010 Subasta Abrazo Caribeño, Respuesta, Collective Show, Santurce, P.R.
2010 Corpórea, Verdanza Hotel, Collective Show, Isla Verde, P.R.
2009 Diáspora Navideña, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2009 Colectiva de Navidad, 778 Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2009 Travesías, www.galeriaveve.com, First Physical Collective, San Juan, P.R.
2009 Puerto Rico Open at Meliá, Zegarra Foundation, Rio Grande, P.R.
2009 Bohemia y Galería: Honrando a Rafael Rivera Ortiz, Galería 778, Collective
Show, San Juan, P.R.
2009 Pulguero de los Artistas 2008, Invited Artist, Muñoz Rivera Park, San Juan, P.R.
2008 Pequeño formato …y algo más, Pamil Fine Art Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R.
2008 Hermosas miniaturas, ARWI Foundation, Collective Show, Santurce, P.R
2008 100 kilates de 10, Code 3 Gallery, Collective Show, San Juan, P.R
2008 Herencia Hispana, Las Americas Museum, Collective Show, Miami, Florida.
2008 Pulguero de los artistas, Invited Artist, Muñoz Rivera Park, San Juan, P.R.
2007 Expo Guerra, Francisco Oller Gallery, one of 18 artists selected for a Collective Show,
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, P.R.
2007 Grad students' EXPO, Francisco Oller Gallery, University of Puerto Rico, Río
Piedras, P.R.
2007 Annual students' EXPO, Francisco Oller Gallery, fourteen artists selected for
a collective show, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, P.R.
2006 Annual students' EXPO, Francisco Oller Gallery, fourteen artists selected by a jury
For a collective show, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, P.R.
2005 Annual students' EXPO, Francisco Oller Gallery, twenty-five artists selected by a
jury for a collective show, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, P.R.
EXPERIENCE
2012- present Customer Service Representative Specialist - G07
Internal Revenue Service
Department of the Treasury
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
2011-2012 Retrieval Specialist
MRA DEPARTMENT
Humana
San Juan, Puerto Rico
2009-present Art teacher
Boys and Girls Clubs of PR
Carolina, Puerto Rico
2010-2011 Gallery Assistant
Galería 778
San Juan Puerto Rico
1999-2010 Sales representative and clerical assistant
Arthings Corp.
Santurce, Puerto Rico
2005-2011 Photographer and Graphic Designer
Independent
2005 Hostess
Puerto Rico Art week
Art week circuit
San Juan, Puerto Rico
1999 Certified Fashion Designer
Escuela de Diseño Lisa Thon
Santurce, Puerto Rico
PUBLICATIONS REGARDING EMILIA BARRIENTOS' WORK
2010 Historias Cotidianas, Revista Artes, No. 35, 2010
2010 Emilia Barrientos, Revista Artes, page 54, No. 34, 2010
2010 Hotel Intercontinental, Vocero newspaper: Escenario, page 78, Tuesday, March
17, 2010
2010 Muestra de arte, El Nuevo Día newspaper: Cultura, page 65, Thursday, March 18,
2010
2010 Hotel Intercontinental, Vocero newspaper: Escenario, page 40, Thursday. March
18, 2010.
2010 La Materia Desplazada de Emilia Barrientos, Art Updated #6, page 11, March 2010
2010 Corpórea, Art Updated #5, page 12, February 2010
2009 Emilia Barrientos, Arte Latinoamericano #18, page 67, July/ December 2009
2009 Pulguero de los Artistas, http//www.elnuevodia.com/pulguerodeartistas-
558119.html, Friday, April 17, 2009.
2009 El Pulguero de los artistas 2009, http://www.el-status.com/pulguero/index.html
April 18 & 19 2009.
2009 El pulguero de los artistas con variada muestra de arte contemporáneo,
Vocero newspaper: Escenario, page 31, Friday, April 17, 2009
2009 Emilia Barrientos, Exuberancias, http://dondeveoarte.com/?page_id=221, March
2009
2005 EXPO Anual 2005, www.mannonnetwork.com/NOCTAMBULO/EXPO Anual
2005
2003 Mucho talento en la búsqueda del vestuario, TeVe guÍa magazine: page 120 &
121, March 2003
2003 Casi listo el ajuar de la reina, Vocero newspaper: Extra, page 69, Wednesday,
March 5, 2003
2003 Ajuar digno de una soberana, El Nuevo Día newspaper, page 71, Thursday, April
24, 2003
2003 Camaleónica Carla Tricoli, Vocero newspaper: Extra, page 84, Thursday, April 24,
2003
2003 Carla Tricoli en los preparativos finales, Primera Hora newspaper: Así, page 42,
Thursday, April 24, 2003
2003 Ajuar digno de una reina, El nuevo día newspaper: Flash, page 89, Thursday
March 8, 2003
2003 Lista para hacer sus maletas, http://www.bellezanacional.com/images/ajuarcarla,
2003
2003 Un ajuar digno de una reina, Vocero newspaper: Extra, page 105, Thursday
March 8, 2003.
2001 Chispazos de la moda, El Vocero newspaper: Moda, pages E6 & E7, Tuesday,
October 16, 2001
2001 Gran desfile de “Chispazos de la moda”, Primera Hora newspaper: A tu manera /
Belleza y Moda, page 49, Tuesday, August 21, 2001
2000 Nuestros nuevos diseñadores, Imagen Magazine, Notimodas, page 70, March
2000
2000 A la plaza la moda, El Nuevo Día newspaper, Por dentro, pages 80 & 81, Tuesday,
December 26, 2000
2000 Emilia Del Mar Barrientos en el desfile anual de la calle, Imagen Magazine, page
70, December 2000
1999 Diseñadores del nuevo milenio, Imagen Magazine, pages 74-75, December
1999
1999 Diseñadores del Futuro, El Nuevo Día, Por Dentro, pages 82 & 83, Tuesday,
December 21st, 1999
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS (partial list)
Reyes-Veray Collection, Puerto Rico
Schwartzkopff Collection, Switzerland
José Hernández, President of AREA place for projects, Puerto Rico
Casas Miantojo, Puerto Rico
Dr. José Andujar, Puerto Rico
Lic. Víctor Candelario, Puerto Rico
Lcda. Isis Pérez, Puerto Rico
Lucca Collection, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Barbot Collection, Miami, Florida