Leyton, Beatriz

Chilean artist. She studied art at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Chile. In 1973, she transferred to the School of Art at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, from which she graduated in 1976. In 1979, she obtained a Bachelor's degree in Art with a specialization in Printmaking. In the early 1980s, she joined the Visual Arts Workshop (TAV). Between 1986 and 1997, she participated in the Taller 99 printmaking workshop, and to this day, she is a member of the Cultural Corporation Taller 99. Since 1997, she has worked as a professor at the School of Art of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. In her artwork, she explores woodcut and experimental techniques, addressing themes that offer a contemporary, critical, and nostalgic perspective on everyday life and urban existence. She is known for her innovations in woodcut procedures, as a result of her constant search to overcome the limits that constrain printmaking and align with her desire for formal synthesis.