Monica Gallardo Country: Argentina
		Title:  Dialogo Medium: Ink and pen on paper Size: 28 x 35 cm

Gallardo was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She received her art education in buenos Aires with these outstanding artists: Pérez Célis, Roberto Pez, and Jorge Demirjian. She also took seminars with Guillermo Roux, and studied drawing and watercolor painting with Asian teachers: Ng Kan Tin and Toms Yamada.

Gallardo participated in the following salons: Salon Sociedad Argentina of Plastic Artists en Salas Nacionales de Exposición, Buenos Aires, 1996; Salon Actualidad en el Arte, Espacio Giesso, Buenos Aires, 1996; Salon Art Today, Complejo Cultural La Plaza, Sala Julio Cortzar, Buenos Aires, 1989; Salon of Museo de Bellas Artes Félix Amador, Lujn, Buenos Aires, 1989; and Salon Tango, Museo de Bellas Artes Félix Amador, 1989.

Her selected solo exhibitions include: Municipality of Alta Gracia, County of Córdoba, 1997; and Graduate Centre of the University of Balgrano, 1991.

Her selected group exhibitions include: Foundation Andreani, Buenos Aires, 1997 and '96; Foundation Fraternitas, Rosario, County of Santa Fé 1996; Honorable Concejo Deliberante of the City of Buenos Aires, 1996; and Cultural Centre of the Embassy of Japan, Buenos Aires, 1989.