Trajectory of the artist (selected information)

Trajectory of the artist (selected information)

· Education:

• 2011 Currently studying a Phd in History of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, Centro Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y del Caribe, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.

• 2010 Master degree in Museology of the Caribbean University, Bayamon Puerto Rico.

• 2003 obtained a Bachelor degree with a concentration in painting in the School of Visual Arts in San Juan Puerto Rico.

• 1998 graduated from the School of Fine Arts Training Center and Fine Arts in Ramey Base Aguadilla Puerto Rico.

• 1998 graduated from high school in Eladio Tirado Lopez School in Aguada Puerto Rico.

· Solo Exhibitions:

• 2009, "Woman" recent works of Cacheila Soto González at the Gallery 778, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.

• 2008, "Glamorous Women" at Gallery Pamil, Guaynabo Puerto Rico.

• 2007, "The Bait" at Black Box Art Foundation, San Juan Puerto Rico.

• 2006, "The meeting and confrontation" at Gallery La Pintadera, Puerto Nuevo San Juan, Puerto Rico.

· Group Exhibitions:

• 2011 “Scent of a Woman”, Alas a la Mujer Foundation, Collection Summer-Spring Fashion Show by Nicolás Felizola, Ballroom of El San Juan Hotel, Isla Verde Puerto Rico.

• 2010 “Serie Regional - Proyecto #2”, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, Old San

Juan. Puerto Rico.

•2009 "Collection Reyes-Veray”, Otto Octavio Reyes Collection, Museum of

Contemporary Art, San Juan Puerto Rico.

• 2008 "Flash back", ARWI Foundation, Santurce Puerto Rico.

• 2008 "The festivities of the street", Forum Gallery, Old San Juan Puerto Rico.

• 2007 "Art Night at Master Pieces", Master Pieces, Bayamon Puerto Rico.

• 2007 "POP 2007", Petrus Gallery, San Juan Puerto Rico.

· Fairs:

2011 “Painting with the Masters”, ESCAPE a non-profit organization, Dorado Beach, Puerto

Rico.

2009-2010 guest artist "Art, Cheese and Wine Nights", Puerto Rico Roofers Association, Sheraton Hotel, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2008 guest artist booth "None of the above" Art & Wine Fair, Convention Centre, San Juan Puerto Rico.

2007 guest artist "None of the above" Art & Wine Fair, Convention Center, San Juan Puerto Rico.

2007 “Collective”, Black Box Foundation in CIRCA, Convention Center, San Juan Puerto Rico.

2006 "Soto Gonzalez Cacheila" Art & Wine Fair, Convention Centre, San Juan Puerto Rico.

· Auctions:

2011, Mecenas, Universidad Central del Caribe, Bayamon, Puerto Rico.

2009, Art Aunction of the Red Cross, La Cruz Roja, Guaynabo Puerto Rico.

2008, The Grand Auction of the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico, Museo de Arte de Puerto

Rico, Santurce, Puerto Rico.

2007, Art Auction 2007 OMIX FACTUM, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce Puerto Rico.

2006, Art Auction Our Art Pieces, Universidad de Puerto Rico. Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.

2006, 7th Auction of Art at the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce, Puerto Rico.

· Colecctions:

• Museum of Anthropology, History and Art of the University of Puerto Rico

• Institute of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture of San Juan Puerto Rico

• Museum of Art of Puerto Rico, San Juan Puerto Rico

• Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico, San Juan Puerto Rico

• Cooperativa de Seguros Múltiples of Puerto Rico

•Dorado Club House in Sabanera Puerto Rico

• Museum of Aguadilla, Aguadilla Puerto Rico

• Library Collection of John Stern in Dorado, Puerto Rico

•Collection of the Red Cross, San Juan Puerto Rico

• Reyes-Veray Collection, Puerto Rico

• Various private collections in Puerto Rico U.S.A., Atlanta U.S.A., Vermont U.S.A., New York U.S.A., Miami U.S.A. y Florida U.S.A.

· Recognitions:

•2010 Puerto Rico's Senate gives a Resolution for the Excellence and Commitment

as a Multidisciplinary Artist.

•2010 The Woman's Civic Club, Chapter of Caguas and its president Milka I. Colon de Lizardi granted a Recognition to Cacheila Soto Gonzalez for her career as an exponent of Art of Puerto Rico to the World, Activity titled Working Women, Art and Ornament Committee.

• 2010 The Municipality of Caguas, Puerto Rico and the Honorable Mayor William Miranda Marin gives a Proclamation to Honor Soto Gonzalez Cacheila for Exemplary Service to the Community and the Country of Puerto Rico.

•2002 Museum of Art is named Soto Gonzalez Cacheila at Eladio Tirado Lopez School of Aguada.

•2001, Youth Art Competition, Finalist, Museum of Ponce Puerto Rico.

•1998, Senate Resolution, Capitol San Juan Puerto Rico.

•1998 Best Poster Triple S, San Juan Puerto Rico.

•1996 Senate Resolution, Capitol San Juan Puerto Rico.

Features of the Art Work of the Artist (brief and selected information)

Features of the Art Work of the Artist (brief and selected information)

One of the characteristic of her work is the extraction and abstraction of forms and figures. It represents various parameters of the existential, psychological aspects of human behavior, moods of the individual and contemporary society. It is a point of departure for the artist where it highlights and emphasizes in the areas that the she want as a focal point and emphatic in her work. It has been classified within the group calling itself the "Generation X" of Puerto Rican Art, art group whose common denominator was born between the decades of the 60's-70's and have the characteristic of having passion for what they do without borders or barriers. She has been in direct contact since very young in the arts for what he has had the privilege of being guided by a great number of artists. In her creative process uses various tools such as traditional and current technology. The artist uses photography as one tool that lets her capture the essence of the subject momentary and spontaneous which is used as inspiration.

The photography is very versatile allowing the artist to manipulate the same, and capture through the lens using a combination of lighting, color, line, shape, volume and captivate and therefore depends on the angle for the use of her compositions. The computer is the most prominent tool of the century, and one of the artist predilections for allowing her to set color schemes while using the picture as a reference. During this process, the artist emphasizes and highlights the traits strokes to emit emotions, attitudes and experiences to represent individual and collective behavior of Puerto Rican society with a global view. She develops through her work an endless number of flat spots, saturated colors, chromatic or monochromes. Using these elements, playing with shapes to form patterns within them that relate to maps and figures created through these spots, as this is a characteristic feature of her work and aesthetic.

Cacheila Soto González (brief biography, 1979-2003)

Biography of the artist

Cacheila Soto González (brief biography, 1979-2003)

Born in Mayaguez, and is a native of Aguada, Puerto Rico in 1979. She’s a compromising multidisciplinary artist, standing out in the medium of painting and in the same way in the photographs, murals, video art and mixed media on different surfaces. The most recognized medium in her career is the painting and with no doubt it is provocative and evocative. During 1993-1998 studied at the School Eladio Tirado Lopez in Aguada Puerto Rico. While she was studying in middle and senior school she represented in several regional and national competitions. In 1996, he founded an art club at school. In 1996-1997, the Senate of Puerto Rico gave two resolutions for standing out in the Visual Arts and the Best Poster Award of the Triple S. Also, from 1993-1998 she studied at the Training Center and Fine Arts at the site of Ramey Air Force Base, Aguadilla Puerto Rico, where she earned a concentration in Visual Arts and organized several exhibitions alongside their colleagues in several towns of the island. In 1998 she graduated from both schools and received several awards, including the award of the Excellence Student in the concentration of the Visual Arts and the Excellence Student of all concentrations of the Training Center and Fine Arts (Centro de Adiestramiento y Bellas Artes). In the summer of 1998, was appointed by the municipality of Aguada to conduct a thematic mural project in the Plaza of El Quinto Centenario in Aguada, Puerto Rico. That same year exhibited at the Capitol in San Juan, Puerto Rico, graduated from high school and in the art school. After graduating from high school she decided to move to the metropolitan area and where chosen to study in the concentration in painting at the School of Fine Arts (Escuela de Artes Plásticas) , Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 2000, she became President of the Student Council and organized several group exhibitions and like the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico Cupey, Center of Fine Arts (Centro de Bellas Artes) in Guaynabo Puerto Rico and on the campus of the School of Fine Arts, Old San Juan Puerto Rico. For 2001, was selected by the Friends of the School of Visual Arts (Los Amigos de la Escuela de Artes Plasticas), to travel to ARCO in Spain. In 2002 a mural entitled "Do not take away years from your life just add life to the years" in the Egis of the Teacher (Égida del Maestro), San Juan Puerto Rico. In 2002, she collaborated using the medium of video art, sound art and photography on several projects with her university teachers. For 2003, while completing the bachelor degree, had her first solo exhibition titled The Extraction and Abstraction for the Subconscious in the gallery La Pintadera, a subject that was part of her graduation thesis on the concentration in painting. This exhibit counted with 20 large-format paintings where the opening captivated the public's of the of visual arts acceptance. This was the beginning of her career. That same year she graduated with honors from the university with a concentration in painting from the School of Plastic Arts of Puerto Rico.

Exhibición: Mujer, (retrospectiva), 2009

Exhibición: Mujer, (retrospectiva), 2009

por Cacheila Soto González, Galería 778, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico

MUJER

Ensayo por Cacheila Soto González

19 de marzo de 2009

A lo largo de los siglos podemos ver la evolución y el estatus de la mujer en los diferentes países y su historia. La lucha constante por la aceptación y comprensión frente a los tipos de pensamiento de la sociedad. Cada nación, pueblo, sector y núcleo familiar ha vivido y viven la presencia directa de la mujer como un ser humano con enormes aportaciones a la vida quedando impregnadas en los corazones, mentes y las palabras impresas en papel, acompañadas de expresiones artísticas.

La mujer es un símbolo, una musa, un vehículo de expresión y manifestación para el mundo en las artes plásticas, estando presente desde su creación. Una gran cantidad de artistas a nivel mundial se han inspirado en la figura y belleza de la mujer. Por ende nos hace parte de la historia humana con un sin numero de perspectivas y dualidades sobre nuestra presencia en las obras de arte.

Mujer es vida y muerte. La mujer recién nacida, e inocente, mujer niña, en crecimiento, mujer adolescente, en la pubertad, mujer adulta, madura, mujer de edad media, sabia. Mujer es hija, hermana, prima, sobrina, tía, compañera, amante, madre y abuela. La mujer dependiente o independiente, todas con propósitos en la vida. Profesionales o no, todas son protagonistas de sus vidas e inspiraciones en mis obras. Por tal razón presento una muestra representativa de mi trayectoria y de mi colección privada en la Galería 778 como tributo a la mujer, en marzo, el mes de la mujer.