María Cecilia Meroño Turner

Visual artist, national professor of drawing and painting and art history, designer and jeweller.

She lives in Buenos Aires and has worked in the field of fine arts, contemporary jewellery, wood carving, ceramics, clothing design, art and jewellery history and teaching.

She studied Fine Arts, clothing design at the University of Palermo, wood carving at the Museum of Decorative Art, and art history at the Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts Association. She attended workshops by Luis Felipe Noe, Silvia Brewda, Rosemary Gerdes and Fabiana Barreda, among others.

In the field of contemporary jewellery, the school of María Medici, Fabiana Gadano, Florencia Gargiulo and Nuria Carulla.

She researches and conducts workshops at the José Hernández National Museum, on the history of art and jewellery of the American people before the arrival of the Spanish and the history of current jewellery.

She participated in exhibitions of contemporary jewellery at the Sívori Museum.   She exhibited contemporary jewellery at the Consorcio de Arte Buenos Aires and Hoy en el Arte Galleries and at the Sarmiento Museum; wood carvingat the Museum of Decorative Art of Buenos Aires.

She had a group exhibition at Ursomarzo Art Gallery.