Biography

Biography

Soledad Bustos is a British-Latin American visual artist based in London. With her varied body of work, she is pursuing an exploration in diverse artistic forms like painting, big scale cardboard assemblages, sculpture and public participation-based installations. She also collaborates in the Spanish speaking magazine La Tundra, writing about architecture and football. Bustos started studying art in1985 receiving a BA in Painting at the University of the Arts in Buenos Aires. During her career she developed an interest in both figurative and abstract painting.  Her work explores the psychological nuances that arise while adapting to new environments and the complexity in defining our identity and sense of belonging as in TwoFold exhibition at Natalie Galustian (2015) and Arte3 at Willesden Art Gallery (2016).Bustos’ installations want to take a look at the beauty of the written form, literature and poetry. What the Poet Knows at Charing Cross Library (2018) was inspired on the library’s poetry section and its Chinese community. At present, Bustos is working on a series of acrylic paintings called Circus and a group of terracotta clay head sculptures.

Selected Publications and Media

La Tundra Magazine/2024 Archipiélago Vacío

La Tundra Magazine/2020 El Diego

La Tundra Magazine/ 2018  Londres: Paradero y Porvenir

La Tundra Magazine/ 2016 ARTE 3

La Tundra Magazine,issue 21/ 2016 Sheperd’s Bush Market

La Tundra Magazine, Artist Books/ 2015 The Language Show

La Tundra Magazine/ July 2014 Life is Football

La tundra Magazine,issue o8/ May 2013 Las viejas fabricas de Avellaneda

La Tundra Magazine,Issue 07/ March 2013 London,the city that…

La Tundra Magazine,issue o6/ January 2013 Lo efímero

El Ibérico newspaper/ July 2012 El Ibérico 55_20120712

 
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