Bio
Maria del Pino Cornejo was born in the Province of Salta, Argentina, in 1981. In 2000, she began her higher studies at prestigious University of the Arts –former 122 years-old National School of Fine Arts “Prilidiano Pueyrredón”, in Buenos Aires. However, after two years at this institution, she decided to leave it in favor of studying Art History at top-ranked National University of Buenos Aires, from 2002 to 2010. From 2000 to 2003, she attended well known artist Guillermo Roux´s workshop, an illustrious drawer, internationally recognized for his works in watercolor. During the last year he offered Cornejo to be an assistant teacher at his workshop. In 2004, she took the next step in her career, leaving Roux´s workshop in order to attend to artist Eduardo Faradje´s workshop, acclaimed on grounds of his mastery in the use of color. During the 2000s and 2010s, Cornejo also undertook courses on subjects such as scenography, make up, photography and iconography, strengthening and interweaving these with her formation and her practice, leading her to a broad and deep understanding of the temperature, saturation and value of color –and ultimately, an absolute domain over the craft. In 2007/2008 Cornejo took a 6 months Grand Tour trip through almost all of western, central and southern Europe on a study and research tour, delving into the artworks at hundreds of museums and many other relevant artistic sites. These trips were extremely useful to grasp in a vivid and unfiltered way what she had been assimilating through theory and the craft of painting from an early age. From 2000 to 2010 she worked in a start-up, partnered with her mother, as the industrial designer of luxury decoration objects made in alpaca, onyx, and horn. From 2011 to 2017 she worked as an executive assistant to a prestigious art dealer in Buenos Aires. After seven years attending to personally-given classes by two of the most prestigious living argentine artists, combined with the rock-solid theoretical background provided by her university studies, and the complementary courses taken to master the use of color, Cornejo´s natural next step was to step into art world mainstream spot, at London. She undertook the 2017/2018 MA Painting course at Wimbledon College of Arts of the University of the Arts London (UAL), for which she won The Wimbledon Trust Bursaries 2017/2018, granted by UAL. While doing so, she was chosen by her Course Leader to take the Griffin Gallery Residency TFAC 2018 art material residency. Having recently finished her MA studies, she is now preparing new artworks, whilst settling down as an London-based artist. She also teaches art. Cornejo struggles every day with diagnosed narcolepsy and dyslexia syndromes, and not-diagnosed HSP/SPS. However, her world-class training, as well as her innate creativity and skillfulness in the métier, places her within a select group of emerging artists, and one of the greatest exponents of her generation in the mastery of color in painting.
Maria del Pino Cornejo was born in the Province of Salta, Argentina, in 1981. In 2000, she began her higher studies at prestigious University of the Arts –former 122 years-old National School of Fine Arts “Prilidiano Pueyrredón”, in Buenos Aires. However, after two years at this institution, she decided to leave it in favor of studying Art History at top-ranked National University of Buenos Aires, from 2002 to 2010. From 2000 to 2003, she attended well known artist Guillermo Roux´s workshop, an illustrious drawer, internationally recognized for his works in watercolor. During the last year he offered Cornejo to be an assistant teacher at his workshop. In 2004, she took the next step in her career, leaving Roux´s workshop in order to attend to artist Eduardo Faradje´s workshop, acclaimed on grounds of his mastery in the use of color. During the 2000s and 2010s, Cornejo also undertook courses on subjects such as scenography, make up, photography and iconography, strengthening and interweaving these with her formation and her practice, leading her to a broad and deep understanding of the temperature, saturation and value of color –and ultimately, an absolute domain over the craft. In 2007/2008 Cornejo took a 6 months Grand Tour trip through almost all of western, central and southern Europe on a study and research tour, delving into the artworks at hundreds of museums and many other relevant artistic sites. These trips were extremely useful to grasp in a vivid and unfiltered way what she had been assimilating through theory and the craft of painting from an early age. From 2000 to 2010 she worked in a start-up, partnered with her mother, as the industrial designer of luxury decoration objects made in alpaca, onyx, and horn. From 2011 to 2017 she worked as an executive assistant to a prestigious art dealer in Buenos Aires. After seven years attending to personally-given classes by two of the most prestigious living argentine artists, combined with the rock-solid theoretical background provided by her university studies, and the complementary courses taken to master the use of color, Cornejo´s natural next step was to step into art world mainstream spot, at London. She undertook the 2017/2018 MA Painting course at Wimbledon College of Arts of the University of the Arts London (UAL), for which she won The Wimbledon Trust Bursaries 2017/2018, granted by UAL. While doing so, she was chosen by her Course Leader to take the Griffin Gallery Residency TFAC 2018 art material residency. Having recently finished her MA studies, she is now preparing new artworks, whilst settling down as an London-based artist. She also teaches art. Cornejo struggles every day with diagnosed narcolepsy and dyslexia syndromes, and not-diagnosed HSP/SPS. However, her world-class training, as well as her innate creativity and skillfulness in the métier, places her within a select group of emerging artists, and one of the greatest exponents of her generation in the mastery of color in painting.
