1953: February, Arnaud Gallery, Paris, France. 1954: April, Gallery Arnaud, Paris, France. 1955: June, Museum of Colonial Art, Quito, Ecuador. 1956: January, Sturegalleriet, Stockholm, Sweden. 1957: May, Brazilian Press Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1958: April, Gummesons Konstagallerie, Stockholm, Sweden. 1959: July, Ecuadorian-North American Center, Quito, Ecuador. 1960: August, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Guayaquil, Ecuador. 1972: January, Altamira Gallery, Quito, Ecuador. 1975: July, "Retrospective", Modern Art Gallery of the Municipal Museum, Guayaquil, Ecuador. 1975: Caspicara Gallery, Jewelry Exhibition, Quito, Ecuador. 1976: December, Ecuadorian-North American Center, Guayaquil, Ecuador. 1979: April, "Retrospective", Museo del Banco Central, Quito, Ecuador. 1985: October, La Galería, Quito, Ecuador. 1989: November, II International Biennial of Cuenca, Guest of Honor, Cuenca, Ecuador.
1940: Salute to Siqueiros, Society of Independent Artists and Writers, Guayaquil, Ecuador. 1951: November, Hispano-American anti-biennial, Henry Troche Gallery, Paris, France. 1953 - 1954 - 1955 -1956: "Salon de Réalités Nouvelles", Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, France.1954: May, Vereingung Bildender Künsler, Vienna, Switzerland. 1954: July, "Divergences", Arnaud Gallery, Paris, France. 1954: October, "Fransk Grafik", De Unga Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden. 1957: IV Biennial of the Museum of Modern Art of Sao Paulo, Brazil. 1959: Liljevalch Art Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. 1960: October Salon of Painting, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Guayaquil, Ecuador. 1961: July, Bolivarian Salon of Painting, Guayaquil, Ecuador. 1961: August, Mariano Aguilera Salon, Quito, Ecuador. 1961: VI Biennial of Sao Paulo, Brazil. 1963: March, Alliance Française, Quito, Ecuador. 1964: May, "12 Painters of Ecuador", Museum of Colonial Art, Quito, Ecuador. 1964: May, "Artists of Ecuador at the Biennials of Sao Paulo”, Cento de Estudios Brasileros, Quito, Ecuador. 1967: "Painting Testimony 1967", Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, traveling exhibition. 1968: October, "Cultural Olympiad", Museum of Anthropology of Science of Mexico, Mexico. 1969: September, Inauguration of the Museum of Latin American Modern Art, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Quito, Ecuador. 1970: February, Gallery of the Cine Club of the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Quito, Ecuador. 1972: October, "13 painters from Quito", Caspicara Gallery, Quito, Ecuador. 1972: November, Altamira Gallery, Quito, Ecuador. 1973: November, Homage to Cuenca, Municipality of Cuenca, Ecuador. 1973: December, Artes Caspicara Gallery, Quito, Ecuador. 1974: July, Alliance Française, Quito, Ecuador. 1974: December, Altamira Gallery, Quito, Ecuador. 1975: May, "Visual Arts Presence from Guayaquil", Goribar Gallery, Quito, Ecuador. 1977: "75 Years of Painting in Ecuador", Siglo XX Gallery, Quito, Ecuador. 1977: "Formalism and Informalism in Ecuadorian Visual Arts", OAS, Quito, Ecuador. 1977: November, "Abstract currents in Ecuadorian Art” Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, USA. 1980: November, "Constructivism", Museo Pinacoteca Banco Central, Guayaquil, Ecuador. 1980: July, "Vision of Latin American Art", Banco Central Museum, Guayaquil, Ecuador. 1981: May, IV Biennial of Art of Medellin, Colombia. 1983: November, "Abstract Masters of Guayaquil", Museum of the Banco del Pacifico, Guayaquil, Ecuador. 1984: May, "I Biennial of Havana", Cuba. 1986: "Masters of Ecuadorian Painting", Praxis Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1987: "II Biennial of Havana", Cuba. 1988: "I Exhibition of Local Artists", Center of Arts of the Theater of the Feminine Society of Culture, Guayaquil, Ecuador. 1989: "10 painters from Guayaquil", Diplomatic Academy, Quito, Ecuador. 1989: "120 years of Club La Union", together with Manuel Rendon, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Araceli Gilbert was born in Guayaquil on December 6th, 1913. She was the daughter of Dr. Abel Gilbert, founder of Guayaquil Clinic, and María de Elizalde Bolognesi, who was educated in a refined and aristocratic environment. Araceli followed the left political trend and was linked to progressive and protest movements that defined social concerns. She was the most important Ecuadorian painter of the 20th century; together with Manuel Rendón, she was responsible for the introduction of non-figurative art in Ecuador. She was part of the intellectual elite of Guayaquil in the Society of Independent Writers and Artists, along with her cousin, the writer Enrique Gil Gilbert, and his wife Alba Calderón. Araceli had numerous exhibitions in Europe and Latin America. In 1960 she won the Second Prize at the October Salon in Guayaquil, and the following year she won First Prize at the Mariano Aguilera Salon in Quito. She represented Ecuador at the Sao Paulo Biennial, the Havana Biennial and the Coltéjer Biennial in Medellín. In 1989 the government awarded her the Eugenio Espejo National Culture Prize. Her Constructivist style opened the way for future generations of Ecuadorian abstract artists. Araceli Gilbert died in Quito on February 17th, 1993.
Gilbert, Araceli (Guayaquil, 1913 - Quito, 1993)
