series

• Urban nature (London Parks)
• Miss World
• Salvar el Tiempo
• Lacuy
• The veiled reflection of an alone woman
• Chili hors de Chili
• Serie de pinturas desde el cine de Raul Ruiz (2019-2023)
• Ireland
• Las Historias de amor no terminan bien en general / Les histoires d’amour finissent mal en général (2018)
• Plantas de interior (2011)
• Mesas y jerarquía / Tables and herritache (2017)
• Rural Glamor (2015)
• Grabados / Engraving (2014)
• GLAMOUR CHILENO, Álbum de provincia (2013-2014)
• Chiloé (2013)
• Isla
• Solo agradeciendo volver
• Recent Selfportraits (Estudios para una cabeza de cerámica)
• Los Calzones (2009)
• Danzas Mortíferas (2011)
• Relaciones Secretas (2009-2010)
• Haiti (2010)
• Actitudes Cotidianas (2005)

textos

• SYNOPSIS (english)
• SINOPSIS (spanish)
• Las historias de amor no terminan bien en general
• Tables and heritage, a letter from Melania Lynch (english & spanish)
• Mesas y jerarquía
• Regions of Desire , text for Rural glamor (english)
• LA ELIPSIS DE UN ACTO FALLIDO (sobre glamour rural) / spanish
• Glamour Chileno (spanish)
• Álbum de provincia (spanish)
• Chiloé y Anelys Wolf

bio

ANELYS WOLF
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Anelys Wolf is a Chilean visual artist, painter, and researcher. Since 2009, she has developed an international career, exhibiting extensively across Europe and the Americas, including in France, Portugal, Austria, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, Peru, Colombia, and Chile.
Her painting practice draws on photographic, cinematic, and archival imagery to explore everyday life, underrepresented narratives, and the relationship between personal memory and collective history. Working with photographs, film stills, family archives, and audiovisual materials, she investigates the emotional and temporal layers contained within ordinary scenes, and the ways images preserve, transform, and transmit experiences of identity, belonging, and representation.
Through painting, Wolf reinterprets archival fragments by introducing processes of distance, transformation, and ambiguity. Her works move beyond specific events to reveal the emotional states that inhabit images: gestures, domestic spaces, objects, and subtle traces of human presence. Combining painting with research-based processes, artist residencies, and archival investigation, she develops projects that connect specific histories with broader cultural contexts.

She has received multiple competitive grants from the Chilean government and continues to expand her practice through international exhibitions, institutional collaborations, and research.

EDUCATION
1993–1996 Bachelor of Arts, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Le reflet voilé d’une femme solitaire (The Veiled Reflection of a Solitary Woman), Galerie Frederic Roulette, Paris, France.
2025 No somos Nada (We Are Nothing), Judas Gallery, Valparaíso, Chile.
2025 El viento sabe que volví a casa (The Wind Knew I Was Returning Home), Las Murras Gallery, Ancud, Chile.
2024 Il riflesso velato di una donna sola (The Veiled Reflection of a Lonely Woman), Casa della Memoria, Milan, Italy.
2024 Miss Mundo (Miss World), This is Now Gallery, Lima, Peru.
2024 Lacuy Landscapes, Space Balcacura, Lacuy Peninsula, Ancud, Chile.
2023 Pintura y Cine (Painting and Cinema), Galerie Frédéric Roulette, Paris, France.
2022 Do You Know What It Feels Like for a Girl?, Judas Gallery, Valparaíso, Chile.
2019 Arquitectura del Mar (Architecture of the Sea), Modulor Gallery, Castro, Chiloé, Chile.
2019 SINOPSIS (Synopsis), Espacio O, Santiago, Chile.
2018 Las historias de amor no terminan bien, en general (Love Stories Do Not End Well, in General), Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
2017 Tables and Heritage, Sarah Walker Gallery, Castletownbere, Ireland.
2015 Rural Glamour, Rats9 Gallery, Montreal, Canada.
2015 Glamour Chileno (Chilean Glamour), Parque Cultural de Valparaíso, Chile.
2014 Álbum de Provincia (Provincial Album), Corporación Cultural de Puerto Montt, Chile.
2012 Ese vestido verde (That Green Dress), KulturRaum Neruda, Vienna, Austria.
2012 Relaciones Secretas (Secret Relationships / Geheime Beziehungen), Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna, Austria.
2011 Secrètes Relations (Secret Relationships), Galerie Les Singuliers, Paris, France.
2010 Secrètes Relations  (Secret Relationships), Galerie Lemniscate, Toulouse, France.
2010 Relaciones Secretas (Secret Relationships), Casa da América Latina, Lisbon, Portugal.
2010 Relaciones Secretas (Secret Relationships), Museo de Exploración Rudolph Philippi, Valdivia, Chile.
2008 Actitudes Cotidianas (Everyday Attitudes), Salón Tudor, Santiago, Chile.
2006 Actitudes Cotidianas (Everyday Attitudes), Museo Regional de Ancud, Chile.
2000 Del plástico a la carne (From Plastic to Flesh), Sala de las Columnas, Ancud, Chile.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2026 Paisajes en tránsito (Landscapes in Transit), Judas Gallery in Balcacura Space, Lacuy Peninsula, Chile.
2026 Cine en Chile (Cinema in Chile), Centro Cultural Palacio la Moneda, Santiago, Chile
2026 Nostalgia, Vestry_St Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
2025 Les radeaux des Méduses (The Rafts of the Medusa), Espace Niemeyer, Paris,      
France.
2024 Saving Time, La Capilla Azul, Contuy, Chiloé, Chile.
2024 L´Humanité, (Humanity), Espace Niemeyer, Paris, France.
2023 No Man’s Land, La NEF Cultural Centre, Fontenay-sous-Bois, France.
2022 Political Facts, Judas Gallery, Valparaíso, Chile.
2017 Photo MAM, Museum of Modern Art Chiloé, Castro, Chiloé Island, Chile.
2015 Love and Rage, M.A.I. Gallery, Montreal, Canada.
2014 La Ruta Trasnochada (The Late-night Rout), Museo de Bellas Artes, Chile.
2013 2º Salón de Arte Sur-Austral SURMUNDO, Centro Cultural Diego Rivera,
Puerto Montt, Chile.
2012 Pinturas recientes (Recent Paintings), Kaleuxe Gallery, Palma de Mallorca,
Spain.
2010 Zarpataedo, Musée du Montparnasse, Paris, France.
2010 Passerelles, Maison du Chili, Paris, France.
2004 Exhibition of Resident Artists in Chiloé, Museum of Modern Art Chiloé,  Castro, Chiloé island, Chile.
2004 CONDOROS / MISTAKES, Galería Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile.
2004 CONDOROS / MISTAKES, 24/7 Gallery, London, United Kingdom.

AWARDS AND GRANTS
2023 FONDART (Chilean National Fund for Cultural Development and the Arts) – Exhibition Cine y Pintura, Paris, France.
2020 FONDART (Chilean National Fund for Cultural Development and the Arts) – Creation line Series of paintings El cine chileno de Raúl Ruiz, Chile.
2020 Acquisition of work Coro, Piano y Fila de Hombres, collection of Ministry of Culture and Arts, Chile.
2017 Public Art Commission Nemesio Antunez, Ministry of Public Works of Chile, Dalcahue City, Chiloé Island, Chile. Co-authored sculpture with architect Edward Rojas, National Architecture Prize winner. Chile.
2015 FONDART (Chilean National Fund for Cultural Development and the Arts),  Exhibition at Festival Quoleur, Montreal, Canada.
2013 First Prize, 2º Salón de Arte Sur-Austral SURMUNDO, Puerto Montt, Región de Los Lagos, Chile.
2009 FONDART (Chilean National Fund for Cultural Development and the Arts) Residency Grant, Le Parc, Pampelonne, France.
2005 FONDART (Chilean National Fund for Cultural Development and the Arts) Regional Grant, Creation line, Actitudes Cotidianas, Chile.

RESIDENCIES
2023 Galerie Omnius, Arles, France – research on light in Arles and the Camargue.
2022 Via Farini Residency, Milan, Italy – research based on the archive of Museo di
Fotografia Contemporanea (MUFOCO).
2019 Incognitum: Circunnavegaciones Contemporáneas, Chile–Portugal. International artistic and cultural exchange programme, Punta Arenas, Chile.
2018 Movimiento Sur, international residential laboratory, NAVE Centro de Creación,Santiago, and Parque Cultural de Valparaíso, Chile.
2017 Sarah Walker Gallery, Castletownbere, Ireland – work with local family
archives.
2009 Le Parc Residency, Pampelonne, France – series Relaciones Secretas based
on Chilean cinema.

CONFERENCES AND TEACHING
2026  Invited Panel Participant, The New Social Environment #1329, organised by The Brooklyn Rail in collaboration with La Capilla Azul. Online panel discussion, New York, USA.
2023  Tutor, Pintura Fresca, Centro Cultural Diego Rivera, Puerto Montt, Chile.
2023  Conference, The Eye That Lies (About Raul Ruiz ‘s cinema), Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile.
2019 Conference, The Early Cinema of Raúl Ruiz, Espacio O, Santiago, Chile.
2018 Conference, Painting from Photographic Archives, Instituto Cervantes, Hamburg, Germany.
2015 Artist Talk, Rural Glamor from the very Southern America, Articule Gallery, Montreal, Canada.

INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS]
Museum of Modern Art of Chiloé (MAM Chiloé), Castro, Chile.
National Collection of Contemporary Art, Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage, Chile.

SELECTED EXHIBITION CATALOGUES (PDF)

2024 The Veiled Reflection of a Solitary Woman – Milan Italy

https://www.anelyswolf.com/wp-content/uploads/Wolf_The-veleid-reflexion-of-an-alone-woman.pdf

2024 Lacuy Landscapes  –  Chile 

https://www.anelyswolf.com/wp-content/uploads/Anelys-Wolf_-Lacuy-catalogo.pdf

2023 Painting and Cinema – France

https://www.anelyswolf.com/wp-content/uploads/Pintura-y-cine_Anelys-Wolf_catalogo.pdf

2010 Secret Relationships – France

https://www.anelyswolf.com/wp-content/uploads/ANELYS-WOLF_Relaciones-Secretas_Catalogo.pdf