SONIA SALAZAR Engraving. Born in Salta. Study in Juan Bautista Alberdi-Tucumán, now lives in Santiago del Estero. WORDS OF THE ARTIST: "In this land that has adopted me, and I have been given the magic of a people essentially an artist, I want to make my creations to be the eyes watching me in this town and the mouth for Leaving escape the cry of the spirit that goes on a rampage impatient with what burns hot as the earth itself "SSalazar. In 1980 he arrived in Santiago del Estero, where he joined the Academy of Fine Arts of the North "Juan Yapari" were his first teachers: Roberto Delgado, Luis Garay Estebenet, Olga Correa and Juan Carlos Garcia. In 1982, as a student, participates in the competition "Santiago and its Churches", which received the Silver Medal for his work "San Francisco Church, and so every year this multi-faceted artist was getting major awards and honors for his artistic work, in the visual arts and poetry, dabbled in theater and folk dances. At the end of their studies received the Medal for Best Graduate of the Magisterium, from the time the work is split between teaching and creation. In 1995 he returned to the Institute of Fine Arts in the search for perfection in the art of Engraving and graduated as a teacher a few years later. His productions range from the Symbolic Social Realism to Abstract Expressionism. Some of the works which reflect the suffering and death of a sad time in our social environment are: "NN" (26x41cm ink), "Mass Grave" (13x18 pyrography), "A look at the conqueror" (Monocopia 17x24cm) . Abstract expressionism works as under: "The Viñales" (Mixed 42x61cm), the combination "After the Flood" (Mixed 32x49cm each), "Life from death" (16x21cm Strong Water). Has not neglected the representation of spaces that define our province such as "The Christ of the Park (Monocopia 17x23cm)", "El Cristo de Madera" (17x23cm Monocopia), "Black Bridge" (15x22cm Monocopia). The legends of our land as: "The Salamanca" (Woodcut 30x43cm), "El Alma Mula (paintings 37x56cm)," The Huayra Muyoj "(Painting 37x56cm). His religious feeling led her to represent the passion of Christ in different ways, "The Christ Hachero" (Woodcut 40x60cm), "Jesus, I turned back" (Woodcut 22x38cm), "One Last Look" (Woodcut 19x20cm). Characters the reality of the province are not absent in their production, "Adela Maria Agudo (Woodcut 19x24cm)," El caudillo "(15x20cm Monocopia)," Eusebio "(Monocopia 14x15cm) Since 1982 has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions the province. In 2003 the donation of works specifically for the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Termas de Rio Hondo. Creator of "Sesquiarte" first meeting of art to young students in ordinary schools in Termas de Rio Hondo. Currently serves on several schools of capital and the interior of the province. (From the book "The plastic in Santiago del Estero II 2008 Edition Taboada Marta Flores Pag 130/131)

. Awards and Honors 1982 - (SDEE) .- Competition Silver Medal Pictorial "Santiago and its Churches" 1982 - (SDEE) 3 º .- Premio.Grabado "Annual Spring Salon" 1983 - (SDEE) Honorable Mention .- "Annual Spring Salon" 1983 - (SDEE) .- Competition Honorable Mention Logo: Academia de Bellas Artes "Juan Yaparí" 1984 - (SDEE) 4 º Mention. - I Contest: "Poetry in Freedom" 1984 - (SDEE) 2 nd Honorable Mention Plastic and Poesía.-I Living the Poem Illustrated 1984 - (SDEE) 1 First Prize Printmaking .- "Annual Exhibition Spring 1988 - (SDEE) 1 º Prize - Contest Drawings and Prints "Now is the time of the Faith" 1995 - (SDEE) Attendance 3 º Hall of Engraving 2000 - (SDEE) MencióndeHonor "Literary Contest for Parents" - Poetry "Colegio La Asunción 2000 - (SDEE) 2 º Literary Competition Prize-Parent "- Prose-Colegio La Asunción Exhibitions Plastic 1981 - (SDEE) Art Exhibition "Art Show Spring 1982 - (SDEE) Exhibition" Painting "- Art Show Spring 1983 - (SDEE) Exhibition" Paintings and Prints, "Art Show Spring 1984 - (SDEE ) exhibition "Sculptures and Prints" - Art Show Spring 1992 - (SDEE) Exhibition of "Ceramics Cold" - Provincial Directorate of Tourism. 1995 - (SDEE) Exhibition "Prints" - Art Exhibition "Juan Yaparí 1996 - (SDEE) Exhibition" Prints "Art-Salon" John Yaparí "2000 - (SDEE) Exhibition" Drawings and Prints "- Movida Cultural Col Sec First Meeting. 2003 - (TdeRH) Exhibition "Drawings and Prints" - Movida Cultural Encounters Winter Choral General San Martín Cultural Center 2004 - ( TdeRH) Exhibition "Drawings" Movida Cultural Encounters Winter Choral General San Martín Cultural Center 2006 - (TdeRH) display of art and applied art-Cultural Encounters Movida Winter Choral General San Martín Cultural Center 2007 - (TdeRH) "Retrospective" Museum of Arts and Crafts 2008 - (TdeRH) "The Others" Group Exhibition 2009 - (SDEE) samples collected in Adatise 2009 - (SDEE) Collective exhibition in House Castro