Training and teaching
Bachelor of Plastic and Visual Arts from the National Schools Institute of Fine Arts (IENBA) of the University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay
He complements his training with the artists Gerardo Acuña, Nelson Ramos and Guillermo Fernández.
Imparte clases de en su taller de libre expresión plástica infantil y escultura en su taller.
Participate in a workshop on curatorship by the Spanish Curator Rafael Doctor at the EAC (Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo) and at the CCE (Cultural Center of Spain), Montevideo, Uruguay.
He participates in art clinics with the Argentine Curator Daniel Fischer and with the Visual Artist and Curator Lucía Pittaluga.
Muestras individuales
2020 | Olaf. Whale Point. Passengers of uncertainty. Maldonado. |
2019 | Passengers of uncertainty. NCI. New Israelite Congregation. Montevideo, Uruguay. sculptures. |
2018 | Migratium. National Museum of Visual Arts (MNAV), Montevideo, Uruguay. Facility. Des-Atando. Instalación. Espacio de Arte Innova; Punta del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay. |
2011 | Grandma. collages. World Trade Center; Montevideo, Uruguay. |
2010 | Recent paintings. La Lupa Books, Montevideo, Uruguay. |
2007 | New sculptural path in jewelry. Astuce Art and Design Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina. New ways. Sculptures and jewelry. General Consulate of Uruguay; New York. USA |
2005 | Dos tradiciones, dos símbolos. Espacio de Arte Meridiano, Montevideo, Uruguay. Pillars. Facility. French Alliance of Montevideo, Uruguay. |
2004 | Playful shapes. Sculptural assemblies. La Lupa Books, Montevideo, Uruguay. The rough warmth of the woods. Curated by Alfredo Torres. Museum and Municipal Historical Archive Cabildo, Montevideo, Uruguay. |
2001 | Mysteries of the sea Association of painters and sculptors of Uruguay (APEU), Montevideo, Uruguay. |
1999 | Polychrome woods. Libertad Books-Art Space, Montevideo, Uruguay |
1998 | Recent sculptures. Gaucho and Currency Museum, Montevideo, Uruguay. |
1997 | Show inauguration of his workshop. sculptures. Montevideo, Uruguay. |
Muestras colectivas
2021 | By a head. Zorrilla Museum. Seventh interdisciplinary project created by the artist, with the collaboration of the artist Adriana Rostovsky. The salt did not come out. Installation and video by Artistes Visuales del Sur.Tribu. Montevideo. To the rescue of the world II. Montevideo tribe. |
2020 | José Ignacio Art Gallery. Maldonado. To the rescue of the world. Contemporary textile art. Tribe. Montevideo. Uruguay. |
2019 | Paper. Contemporary Graphic Art. Romulo Raggio Foundation. Vincent Lopez. CABA, Argentina Uruguayan artists at SODRE. Inauguration of exhibition hall. Montevideo, Uruguay. |
2015 | Ancestors and memory. River Plate interdisciplinary project created and produced by the artist. Zorrilla Museum, Montevideo, Uruguay. |
2013 | Textile crossings. International textile exhibition World Textile Art (WTA). House of Culture of Maldonado, Uruguay. Women with fiber. Municipality of Montevideo (IMM). Alicia Haber's curatorial project. Montevideo, Uruguay. |
2012 | Women seen by women. Gurvich Museum, Montevideo, Uruguay. International Plain Notebook Project. Beit Ha'ir Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel. Ludus. Collective interdisciplinary project created and managed by the artist. Union Foundation, Montevideo, Uruguay. Paper. Facility. Romulo Raggio Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Traveling boxes. DUAC Project (Uruguayan Diffusion of Contemporary Art). Project of the curator Graciela Kartofel, Queens College, New York, United States. Espace Wallonie de Tournai, Belgium; Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg; Lakma Latin Art Museum, Amersfoort, The Netherlands. |
2011 | Memories and memories: icons of the Bicentennial. Facility. Alfredo Torres curatorial project. Blanes Museum, Montevideo, Uruguay. imagine. Interdisciplinary project created and managed by the artist. Cultural Space of Mexico, Montevideo, Uruguay. Art in passing Interdisciplinary project created and managed by the artist. World Trade Center, Montevideo, Uruguay. Traveling boxes. Luxembourg Abbey, Luxembourg; lakma Latin Art Museum, Amersfoort, The Netherlands; Espaces Wallonie in Brussels, Liège, Nivelles and Tournai, Belgium. |
2010 | Ancestors. Interdisciplinary project created and managed by the artist. French Alliance of Montevideo; Bastion of Carmen, Colonia del Sacramento; House of Culture of Maldonado, Uruguay. Ethnic group VI. Latin American Art Fair. Brussels, Belgium. Museum of American Art of Maldonado, Uruguay. Post. Project of the artist Belén Franco. Anteroom of the Library of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain. |
2008 | Jewel x Jewel. Exhibition of artistic goldsmithing and poetry. Five artists and five poets. Project created and managed by the artist. National Museum of Visual Arts (MNAV), Montevideo, Uruguay. Cultural Center Marte-Contemporary Art, Montevideo, Uruguay. |
2007 | Beauty in Art 21 St. Century Interpretations. San Antonio Public Library, San Antonio, Texas, Estados Unidos. Museum Night. Sample of artistic goldsmithing. Gurvich Museum, Montevideo, Uruguay. Multiple visions traveling art boxes from Mexico, Argentina and Uruguay. Uruguayan consulate in New York, United States. Photography and objects. Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas, United States. Cultural Center Marte-Contemporary Art, Montevideo, Uruguay. Flavors and languages. Ceramic object-dish intervention. Food Culture Museum. Traveling project. Cultural Center of Spain in Montevideo, Uruguay. |
2006 | Kunst Antiek. Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Art Fair Exotica. Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Multiple visions traveling art boxes from Uruguay. Casa Principal Cultural Center, Mexico City; Main House Cultural Center, Veracruz; House of Culture of Morelia, Michoacán; Diego Rivera Museum, Guanajuato. Holland Art Fair Malieveld. The Hague, the Netherlands. Art Fair Den Bosch. Brabanthallen, Bolduque, The Netherlands. Art of being a bank. urban intervention. Punta del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay. Tribute to the teacher Nelson Ramos. Paseo Gallery, Montevideo. Uruguay. |
2005 | SOFA Art Fair (Sculpture Objects and Functional Art). New York, USA. 25 artists for 25 years. ALADI (Latin American Integration Association). Montevideo, Uruguay. Traveling boxes, boxes from Uruguay. Mill of Perez. Association of Painters and Sculptors of Uruguay (APEU), Montevideo, Uruguay. Eight and one. Artana Latin American Fine Art. The Hague, The Netherlands. (Curator: Graciela Kartofel). |
2004 | Great Creole circus. MEC Cultural Center (Ministry of Education and Culture), Montevideo, Uruguay. Small format work. The Foot of the Fish Gallery. Montevideo, Uruguay. The language of Cervantes. Art Space. Washington D.C., United States. Jewish Cultural Center of North Virginia. Virginia, United States. Sculptures. Uruguay Cultural Foundation for the Arts. Washington D.C., United States. Belongings. Ways of believing/creating. Municipal Subway Exhibition Center and Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC). Montevideo, Uruguay. (Curator: Alicia Haber) Drawings. District of Columbia Public Library. Washington D.C., United States. American Art Museum Foundation. Maldonado, Uruguay. |
2003 | Enchantments, vibrations and myths. Sculptures and drawings. Uruguay Cultural Foundation for the Arts. Washington D.C., United States Sculptures Park of Perception. Las Cumbres, Punta del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay. Tribute to Octavio Podestá. Old City sculpture walk; Montevideo, Uruguay. |
2002 | Recent sculptures and drawings. Uruguay Cultural Foundation for the Arts. Washington D.C, United States. Art by mail. Paper map intervention. Municipality of the city of La Plata, Argentina. |
2001 | Prayer to America. Cultural Center of the Coast of Vicente López. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Batuz Ceramic Sculpture Award. Selected artists. Vaz Ferreira Room, National Library. Ministry of Education and Culture, Montevideo, Uruguay. |
2000 | Something Special Contest. Selected artists. Association of Painters and Sculptors of Uruguay (APEU); Montevideo, Uruguay. |
1998 | kites. Ministry of Education and Culture. Montevideo, Uruguay. Wood assemblies. Mazzoni Museum. Maldonado, Uruguay. Ceramic sculptures. Shared exhibition with the artist Eva Olivetti. New Israelite Congregation (NCI), Montevideo, Uruguay. |
1997 | XI Salon of Plastic Arts of the Medical Union of Uruguay (SMU) Award-winning artists. Montevideo, Uruguay. Gold medal. |
Reconocimientos
2018 | Morosoli Award. Sculpture |
2004 | Selected by Humanitad Foundation, London, as the official representative sculptor of Uruguay in the construction of the Monument to Mankind M2M project. |
2001 | Selected Batuz Award, ceramic sculpture |
2000 | Selected, Something Special Contest. |
2001 | Form and color in the Mercosur. Creativity Award. Exchange yard. Maldonado. |
1996 | XI Salon of Plastic Arts of the Medical Union of Uruguay (SMU). First prize in sculpture. Gold medal. |
The works of Nora Kimelman are in museums in Uruguay: Museo del Gaucho y la Moneda, Museo Gurvich, Instituto Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, and in private collections in various countries: Argentina, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, the United States, Switzerland, Spain, Israel and Uruguay.
Publicaciones
Jüdische Frauen in der bildenden Kunst IV (The Jewish Woman in Art), Brenner, Hedwig Konstanz, Hartung-Gorre Verlg, 2011.
Visual arts in Uruguay: critical dictionary, 2nd ed., Nelson Di Maggio Montevideo, 2017.
Abstract messages (interview). Gomez Téliz, Gabriela Dossier Magazine (Montevideo), Jul. 2017.
Maderas con sabor a historia. Sanguinetti, Emma Búsqueda (Montevideo), 2004.
En TV
The plastic monitor. Channel 5 TNU. Video interview no. 35 by Pincho Casanova, 2015.