Elsa Madrigal

Elsa Madrigal (full name Elsa Madrigal Bulnes, b. 1971) Master in Fine Arts, engraving [ National School of Plastic Arts, Academy of San Carlos (UNAM), Mexico, 2000] and Bachelor in Fine Arts [ National School of Plastic Arts (UNAM), Mexico, 1997].

Madrigal is a Mexican artist, whose work has been recognized with memberships in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana (1996).^[1]

She was born in Mexico City, where she currently lives. Her work focuses on prints, ex libris and artist`s books.^{[2] [1]}

The artist has had eight individual exhibitions and since 1992 her work has participated in more than a hundred collective shows in Mexico, Argentina, Cuba, Spain, Germany, Italy, Poland, Belgium and Lithuania. She obtained honorific mentions at First Metropolitan Biennial of Poetry and Paiting in the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico (1993), and IV National Engraving Contest José Guadalupe Posada, Aguascalientes, Mexico (1996).

She has been selected in various contests such as the First International Artist`s Book Competition Lía, Guadalajara, Mexico (2013); the XIII Ramos Ferrol Large-Scale Prize in Coruña, Spain (1999); the Ex Libris Bienniale in Sint-Niklass, Belgium (1999); the International Little Graphics Arts Competition Railways and Ecology in Vilnus, Lithuania (1998), Youth Print Prize in Havana, Cuba (1997)...^[1]

References

1. Mujeres del Salón de la Plástica Mexicana 1. Mexico City: CONACULTA/INBA. 2014. pp. 108–109. ISBN 978 607 605 255 6.
2. "El SPM exhibe los Retratos cambiantes de Elsa Madrigal". July 9, 2013. Retrieved July 3, 2015.