Stéphanie VARELA

Stéphanie VARELA was born in Versailles (France) in 1980.
From a very young age she learnt some of the basic techniques of painting from her grandmother Thérèse Rochoux who is a painter. Another important formative influence was the Mexican painter, Alberto Ramirez, who lives and works in France.
She was allowed to work by his side for three years and has made a dramatised documentary on his pictorial practices filmed on location in Mexico in 2005.
She has pursued an artistic career with numerous individual and group exhibitions of her paintings in France and abroad as well as completing her studies, obtaining high qualifications in Anglo-American Law, then in Cultural administration, Aesthetics and the Fine Arts at the Paris Sorbonne.
In recent years she has produced and directed a dozen short films including the award-winning Mad Cow versus Mean Dogs and recently Readymade.
She is writing a Doctoral thesis on Motion Painting at Montpellier University, as well as writing articles and lecturing on this subject.
Currently in Mexico, where she came, supported by the Rotary International Foundation, as a university researcher invited in the CUEC (Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos de la UNAM ),Stéphanie Varela is developing partnerships in order to create an installation of contemporary art within metropolitan Mexico City; a “motion painting” called Aparición en México.