Since 1969, she has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Chile, France, Spain, and Mexico.
Style and Technique
Ximena Armas's works hide secrets. Nothing is revealed; all is instead veiled with ribbons and bands, hemmed with curtains, burrowed beneath a mass of stones. She fringes all her paintings with mystery, dresses them with shades. One is struck at once by their odd composition, made of striped bands, ruffled feathers, or beach huts. Her figures hide or suddenly appear as shadows or silhouettes. The artist plays at staging over and over again the familiar elements of her dreamlike world, thus totally mastering space and swamping it with symbols.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
1969: Galería Arturo Edwards, Santiago, Chile.
1970: Galería C.C. Providencia, Santiago, Chile.
1980: Galerie La Bolée, Anonnay, France.
1982: Latino-Américains à Paris, Grand Palais, Paris.
1986: Les Figurations de 1960 à nos jours, Musée de Cagnes-sur-Mer, E.B.A. de Besançon, Musée de Carcassonne, Couvent des Cordeliers de Châteauroux, France.
1989: Musée de l'Amérique latine, Monaco.
1990: Art chilien d'aujourd'hui, Espace Belleville and UNESCO, Paris.
1991: Festival international de la peinture, Château-musée de Cagnes-sur-Mer, France.
1995:
Femmes ibéro-américaines, Junta de Extramadura, Caceres, Espagne.
Présence du Chili en France, Galería Plastica Nueva, Santiago, Chile.
1996: Artistes Chiliens en France, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile.
1997:
Festival des arts 1997 – Dialogue Est-Ouest, Vayolles, Vienne, France.
Persistance du paysage dans la peinture chilienne, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile.
2003: Hommage à S. Allende, Centre culturel Robert-Desnos, Ris-Orangis, France.
2004: George Sand, interprétations, Couvent des Cordeliers, Châteauroux, France.
2007: Santiago Paris Santiago, Galería La Ventana Cemicual, Santiago, Chile.
Mohebbi, Sohrab; Heiman, Talia; Inouye, Ryan, eds. (2022). Is it Morning For You Yet? 58th Carnegie International Catalogue. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Art. ISBN978-0-88039-070-5.