Member’s Spotlight

Maria Torrendell

María is Uruguayan and lives in Montevideo. She has a degree in Biological Sciences. She studied art at the National School of Fine Arts and attended José María Pelayo’s sculpture workshop. She studied glass sculpture in Italy with Silvia Levenson and in Argentina with Karina Del Savio. Her works are present in private collections in Miami, Portland, Washington, Marbella, Chicago, New York, Oslo, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Punta del Este, Bulgaria, China, Japan and José Ignacio.
2024
She is selected to be present in the Second Biennale of Material Contemporary Art in China, exhibiting her work in Beijing.
She travels to Japan to attend the exhibition at the Toyama Glass Art Museum, with another 59 artists selected.
Her work is exhibited in Montevideo in the collective show “A de artista”
In 2023 she is selected by the Toyama Glass Art Museum in Japan to exhibit her work in the museum in Toyama.
In 2022 she was selected by the Corning Museum of Glass to be included in the publication New Glass Review 42 and also to participate in the First International Bienniale of Contemporary Material Art in China, exhibiting her work in Beijing.
In 2022 she was also selected to attend the Ibero-American Congress of Women in Glass, Artists and Scientists, in Madrid, Spain, and exhibits her work at the MAVA, Museum of Glass Art in Alcorcón.
She was also invited to give a lecture about her work at the First Glass Art Biennial in Costa Rica.
In 2019 she was selected to participate in the International Glass Biennale in Sofia, Bulgaria.
In 2013 she was selected by the Chelsea International Fine Arts Competition to be present with her work in an exhibition at Agora Gallery, New York.
Between 1993 and 2024 she has participated in several individual and group exhibitions.