Olga Sinclair
Olga Sinclair was born in the city of Panama
in 1957 and at the age of 14 participated for the first time in a collective
exhibition amongst professional painters.
She started painting's studies with her father,
the painter Alfredo Sinclair and went in 1976 to the Academy of Applied
Arts in Madrid, Spain. There she took also during three years classic
art drawing lessons at the Arjona Studio.
Back in Panama she obtained her BA-degree in
Interior Design in 1984. At the same time she took engraving lessons
in Giangranddi studio. Then she continued her studies in London for
another two years. In 1987 she married to Hans Risseeuw and they moved
to Bolivia where Olga was Cultural Attaché to the Panamanian
Embassy. After that they went to Jakarta, Indonesia where their two
daughters were born. Since 1994 Olga and her family reside again in
Panama.
Selected Individual Exhibitions
| 2004 |
Galeria Espacio, El Salvador |
| 2003 |
Canal Museum, Panama |
| 2002 |
Aurelio Stefanini Gallery, Florence, ItalyHSBC
Bank USA, Premier Collezione, Panama |
| 2001 |
FIA, Yaco García Latin-American Art,
Caracas, Venezuela |
| 2000 |
2000 Portales Gallery, Tegucigalpa, Honduras |
| 1999 |
Mateo Sariel Gallery, PanamaElite Fine
Art, Miami, USA |
| 1997 |
Bernheim Gallery, Panama |
| 1995 |
Imagen Gallery, PanamaElite Fine Art, Miami,
USA |
| 1993 |
Ferrostal AG, Essen, Germany |
| 1992 |
Spanish Embassy, Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia |
| 1990 |
Museum of Contemporary Art, Panama |
| 1989 |
Kunsthandel E. den Bieman de Haas, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Main Group Exhibitions
| 2004 |
Las Vegas Art Museum (Latin American Artists Now), Nevada |
| 2002 |
State Department, San Juan, Puerto RicoLos
Angeles Art Show, Latin American Contemporary Gallery, L.A., USALatin
American Artists, Vila Nova, San Salvador Fine Art, El SalvadorSiete
Maestros de la Pintura, Alliance Française, Panama |
| 2001 |
Arte BA, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaII Biennial
of Contemporary Art, Florence, ItalyDirector's Choice, Mateo Sariel,
(yearly event), PanamaArt Miami, Tega Gallery, Miami, USA |
| 2000 |
Fifteen Panamanian Artists, Italo-Latin American
Institute, Rome - Milan - MadridMujeres, Casa Museo del Banco
Nacional de Panama, PanamaArt Forum UBS Bank, Alfredo & Olga
Sinclair, Hotel Miramar, PanamaTwenty years Celebration, Gallery
Arteconsult, Panama95 Years Art of the Isthmus, City Bank, PanamaFIA
2000, Yaco Garcia, Latin American Art, Caracas, VenezuelaDirector's
Choice, Mateo Sariel Gallery, PanamaLatin American "Maestros",
Imagen Gallery, PanamaNew Visions, Mateo Sariel Gallery, PanamaSummer
Show, Elite Fine Art, Miami, USA |
| 1999 |
Latin American Art Today, Enmarcarte, PanamaLatin
American Spectrum, Elite Fine Art, Miami, USASummer Show, Elite
Fine Art, Miami, USA |
| 1998 |
Two Generations Sinclair: Caja de Ahorros
Bank, PanamaSummer Show, Elite Fine Art, Miami, USA |
| 1997 |
Panamá Hoy II, Museum of Contemporary
Art of Santiago, ChilePanamá Hoy, Zurbarán Gallery,
Buenos Aires, ArgentinaContemporary Art of Panama, Forma &
Color Gallery, Bogota ColombiaLatin American Spectrum, Elite Fine
Art, Miami, USA1-2-3 Gallery, San Salvador, El SalvadorHomage
to Contemporary Fine Art of Panama, Museum of Contemp. Art, Panama
Canálisis, Bernheim Gallery, PanamaLatin American Contemporary
Art, Marzuki Gallery Jakarta, Indonesia |
| 1996 |
Gallery 1-2-3, San Salvador, El SalvadorFirst
Central American Encounter, INAC, PanamaGallery Josefina, Managua,
NicaraguaFifteen years Arte Consult, Gallery Arte Consult, Panama
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| 1995 |
Central American Art, Seat of European Community,
BelgiumSummer Show, Elite Fine Art, Miami, USA |
| 1994 |
Art Gallery Filanhanco, Quito, Ecuador |
| 1993 |
Flowers, Edwin's Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
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| 1992 |
Int'l Art Miami, Convention Center USABiennial
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
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