Solar I

Morela Avilán was born in Caracas, Venezuela. In 1983 she earned a degree in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas. From 1983 to 1984 she studied photography with Professor Claudio Nieves at the Universidad Santa María in the same city. The next year she received a grant from the Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos Rómulo Gallegos (Celarg), where she joined a poetry workshop. Between 1986 and 1996 she studied painting at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas Cristóbal Rojas and at the Instituto de Arte Federico Brandt in Caracas. At the end of this formative period she started to participate in group exhibitions in the Venezuelan capital. From 2000 to 2005 she attended various workshops such as “Psychoanalysis in Art: The Archetypes” and “New Techniques of Visual Expression” taught by the artist Víctor Hugo Irazábal at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas Cristóbal Rojas, among others.