About
Independent Contemporary Art and Critic Curator
Eileen strongly believes in the richness of making her public reflect and intrigue her audience with a wide variety and originality of forms of expression, recognizing as a value the power of creativity, sensation and emotion that mediate artistic languages, the only one capable of overcoming the barriers, prejudices, stereotypes and ideologies.
Eileen Contreras
Art curator
Eileen Contreras is an Independent Contemporary Art and Critic Curator. She graduated in Venezuela in Business Administration with an MFA in Fine Art in London. During her career, Eileen worked promoting and connecting contemporary artists with collectors, art lovers, buyers, and international festivals. For more than ten years she has been organizing exhibitions and festivals of Contemporary Art as Art Director, conceiving and organizing events in many institutional locations and curating modern and contemporary art exhibitions. She has in her curriculum more than 20 exhibitions & art festivals and fashion shows in Rome, Milan, and London. Also has a special passion for developing exhibitions that pay homage to beauty in all its expressions.
Her curatorial methodology is constantly looking for poetic, philosophical approaches inspired by literature, surrealism, and understanding the world or other inventions that foster a social dialogue between the themes of the works on display. She strongly believes in the richness of making his public reflect and intrigue her audience with a wide variety and originality of forms of expression, recognizing as a value the power of creativity, sensation, and emotion that mediate artistic languages, the only one capable of overcoming the barriers, prejudices, stereotypes, and ideologies.
Exhibitions
Eileen has worked in promoting international cultural projects.
Of particular importance were the recent initiatives:
● Art in Mind – Brick Lane Gallery – London 2013
● Collettiva d’Arte Contemporanea – hofficina d’arte -Rome – Via del Vantaggio 2013.
● Mostra d’arte & Sfilata di moda @ Area Contesa Via Margutta-Rome – 2015.
● Rapporti Molteplici in una sola Armonia Galleria Sallustiana-Rome -2015.
● “ROMA MULTIETNICA ARTE IN TUTTE LE SUE FORME” Dioscuri Al Quirinale – Rome- 2016.
● LA FEMME, EMPOWERING WOMEN ART EXHIBITION, MGallery – 2016 -Milan
● Fashion Show & Art Gala ” at the Alberto Sordi Gallery- Rome – 2016.
● “Artisti del Vecchio e Nuovo Mondo! United Artist for Peace, Galleria Della Pigna – Rome- 2016.
● “V ° Edition of: “The Artistic Mind of Young Women in Confrontation”. Chamber of Deputies “, II Edition of Multiethnic Rome From the Dean Masters of Art for the Children of Amatrice at the Dioscuri del Quirinale Monumental Complex,” Rome – 2017
● Il Vento delle bellezze non ha confine, Personal Exhibition of Maestro Franco Azzinari at Palazzo Ferrajoli – Rome, 2017
● Vernissage Essere Latino Federico Kampf, Mgallery- Rome -2017.
● Vernissage Surrealism Dreams, MGallery- Rome -2017.
● Solo Exhibition Shana Mimieux MGallery – Rome 2017.
● Young Female Artists in Comparison at the Monumental Complex San Salvatore in Lauro-Rome – 2018.
● E Pur si muove, La Griffe MGallery- Rome -2018.
● Art Gala, La Griffe MGallery- Rome -2018.
● So Surreal So Pop Liberation Hotel Hassler – Rome- 2019.
● Energia Tiempo y Conciencia Federico Kampf Polmone Pulsante Rome- 2019.
● The Golden Ratio Exhibition Palazzo Ruspoli – Rome- 2021.
● CAIF Contemporary Art International Festival – Galleria Angelica – Rome- 2022