Jacqueline Unanue

Ancestors IV
Ancestors_IV

 acrylic on canvas, 22”x 28” (56x 71 cm)

 Ancestors V by Jacqueline Unanue
Ancestors V

acrylic on canvas, 2023, 36”x 36” (91x 91 cm)

 

Ancestors II by Jacqueline Unanue
Ancestors II

acrylic on canvas, 2023, 24”x 24” (61x 61 cm)

Ancestors IX, Water Ritual by Jacqueline Unanue
Ancestors IX, Water Ritual

acrylic on canvas, 2024, 40”x 30” (101x 76 cm)

Ancestors XI, Water Ritual by Jacqueline Unanue
Ancestors XI, Water Ritual

acrylic on canvas, 2024, 20”x 24” (51x 61 cm)

Ancestors I, diptych by Jacqueline Unanue
Ancestors I, diptych

acrylic on canvas, 2023, 61”x 102” (155x 259 cm)

Ancestors VI by Jacqueline Unanue
Ancestors VI

acrylic on canvas, 2024, 22”x 28” (56x 71 cm)

Ancestors XXI by Jacqueline Unanue
Ancestors XXI

 acrylic on paper, 2024, 18”x 24” (46x 61 cm)

Jacqueline Unanue is a Chilean American artist of Spanish ancestry residing and working in art in Philadelphia (PA), since 2000. While studying design in her native Chile in the 1970s, she became interested in the rock art done in her own country. She visited the solitary and awe-inspiring valleys, mountains, deserts, and rock formations of Chile. She also traveled to Spain to study the caves of Altamira in the Basque country.

Unanue has received numerous awards and grants—among them the Latin American Women in Art and Culture Tribute in 2015, in New York city—and has widely exhibited in Chile, Spain, Finland, Ecuador, and Argentina, as well as in galleries in Washington DC, Philadelphia, Chicago, and New York. Her work can also be found in many private and public collections in the Americas and Europe.