Maria Teresa Rizzi has been working as a visual artist for over 25 years. During her career she has made over fifty solo and group exhibitions in numerous art centers, including New York, Bogotá, Miami, Barcelona, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Paris, Frankfurt Hamburg, and San Francisco. Her exhibitions, which have been presented in museums, private galleries, and municipal exhibition halls, have been reviewed by art critics and journalists in international, national and local magazines and newspapers. Her works are included in private and public collections all over the world. Early on in her career she was selected by Nobel prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez as one of the thirty most important ex-patriot Colombian artists in the world and was included in the unique group exhibition, “Colombian Artists in the World,” in the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá. She was an artist in residence at the Piramidón Art Center in Barcelona, she was invited by GEDOK, the oldest and largest European network for artists, to participate in the show “Urban Life: Another Point of View,” and was awarded the prestigious AGPA printmaking award given by Smurfit Cartón de Colombia.

Maria Teresa’s work follows a strong abstract tradition that she defines as an “archeology of memories” made of multiple layers of significance, reflecting the interplay between the creation and destruction of relationships and limits. She works in various media, including oil painting, drawing, mixed media, wood carved sculptures, ceramic, etching, and viscosity printmaking.

She attended Parson’s School of Design and the New York Studio School and later studied Viscosity Etching at NYU with professor Krishna Reddy. She holds an MFA in Philosophy and Literature and was awarded Magna cum Laude by the Universidad de los Andes for her thesis on the Aesthetic Identity of Latin America.