CAROLINA FERREYRA-LEHMKUHL
Carolina Ferreyra was born in Argentina.
She graduated in Art History from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1987 and has trained as a visual artist in Buenos Aires, Geneva, New York, and London. She alternates between figurative and abstract composition in photography, sculpture, mixed media, prints, and collage.
She studied Visual in Buenos Aires arts with artists Miguel Davila, and Kenneth Kemble and worked for several years for Sotheby’s auction house in Buenos Aires and New York until 1990.
From 1989 until 1991 she followed certificate courses at New York University and The Arts Students League in New York.
For twenty seven years until 2017 she lived in Geneva, Switzerland where she followed courses at the University of Visual Arts of Geneva with the visual artist Monika Kaminska, the sculptor Jo Fontaine and private courses with the photographer Aline Kundig.
She lived in London from 2017 till 2025 and actively participated in workshops at the Heatherley's School of Fine Arts.
She has been living in Madrid, Spain since 2025 .
My work on paper lives in what is implied rather than stated; intuition plays a central role in the process. I am drawn to ambiguity and imprecision. Forms and images remain open, unresolved. Nothing I make is fixed; the work drifts, changes direction, and resists conclusion, preferring to insinuate rather than to describe.
I work with a plan that changes direction, as life does. Spontaneity and accident guide the process as I give form to the inner noise of thought, approaching it slowly and contemplatively. In this openness, I find freedom. Inner dialogues, which I call conversations, are vividly present.
I create abstract sculpture in alabaster and soft stones, carving materials that hold both weight and fragility, opacity and light. The forms emerge through touch and resistance, felt before they are understood.
My photographic practice extends into printmaking. In London, I explored aquatint, screen printing, etching, and photopolymer, introducing my photographs into these processes and allowing the image to shift, erode, and reappear. Printing becomes a quiet translation between image and matter, where meaning remains fluid.
Exhibitions
2002 June - Collective exhibition of sculpture by Jo Fontaine's students. 302 Route de Soral, Soral, Switzerland.
2004 - Collective exhibition of Jo Fontaine's students in Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland.
2013 May - Exhibition of four photographers "Elements" , at Galerie Nest, Geneva, 14 Rue Etienne Dumont, Geneva, Switzerland.
2013 October- Collective exhibition, Galerie Nest, 14 Etienne Dumont , Geneva, Switzerland.
2015 May - Exhibition of five photographers "Entre deux mondes" at Galerie La Cimaise, 14 Rue de 31 Décembre, Geneva 1207. Geneva, Switzerland.
2021 June - Arts exhibition at Green & Stone Gallery, "Unveiled" 251-253 Fulham Road, London SW3 6HY, UK.
2022 July - Arts exhibition at Green and Stone Gallery,
"A quatre mains", 251-253 Fulham Road, London SW3 6HY, UK.
2023 June - Collective exhibition "L'arte in evoluzione" at Gallery Cael, 11 Via Carlo Tenca, Milan , Italy.
2025 April 23- May 2 - Collective exhibition at Sillage ,Van Gogh art gallery, C/ de las Hileras, Madrid, Spain
2025 June 20-28 - Collective exhibition at Heatherley's school of fine arts, 75 Lots Road, SW10 0RN London, UK
2025 December 3-7- Collective exhibition Van Gogh Gallery at Red Dot Miami , Mana Wynwood, 318 NW 23rd St, miami,FL, USA.