ABOUT

Born in Santiago de Chile in 1985, Olivia Eliash currently lives in Prague, Czech Republic, where she is mainly dedicated to painting and illustration.

In 2010 she graduated as a Painter at the University of Chile and then for 4 years (2008 -2011) she furthered her studies with painter Rodrigo Vega in the Academy Of Visual Affairs El Iris.

Eliash, together with some of her colleagues of the academy, co-founded a young art space called Iniciativa Alugar, where exhibitions and talks were held in the living room of her own house, which was specially equipped for this purpose. Since 2011 and during the next 3 years, they did more than 20 exhibitions and events dedicated to exhibit and discuss art from the point of view of creators.

Parallel to her work as a painter, in 2011 Olivia Eliash began to work for the National Museum of Natural History in Santiago de Chile, where she first entered to restore the paintings of the dioramas that had been damaged by the earthquake of 2010. During the following 3 years, she continued to collaborate with the museum and, among other things, she learned how to make and restore taxidermy.

Since moving to the Czech Republic in 2014 and to the present date, she works part time at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Prague, mainly restoring taxidermy for exhibitions and doing scientific illustration.

This connection with the natural sciences has marked the last years of pictorial work of Eliash, where this subject matter is present both in her painting and in her illustrations.

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Born in Santiago, Chile in 1985, Olivia Eliash currently lives in Prague, Czech Republic, where she is mainly dedicated to painting and illustration.
In 2010, she graduated as a Painter at the University of Chile and then for 4 years (2008 -2011), she furthered her studies of painting with the artist Rodrigo Vega at the Academy Of Visual Affairs El Iris.
In addition to her work as a painter, in 2011 Olivia Eliash began to work for the National Museum of Natural History in Santiago, Chile. There, she first entered to restore the paintings of the dioramas that had been damaged by the earthquake of 2010. During the following 3 years, she continued to collaborate with the museum and, among other things, she learned how to make and restore taxidermy.
Since moving to the Czech Republic in 2014 and to the present date, she works part-time at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Prague, mainly restoring taxidermy for exhibitions and doing scientific illustration. This connection with the natural sciences has marked the last years of her pictorial work, where this subject matter is present both in her painting and in her illustrations.