Marisabel Gonzalez (b.1973, Caracas, Venezuela) is a Sydney-based contemporary artist whose work explores the relationship between landscape and body.
Drawing on her background as a physician and sonographer, her work stems from a continual interest in what lies beneath the surface. Blurring the line between body and landscape, she presents both as living archives of experience: layered and ever-changing.
Colour plays a central role in her practice, serving as atmosphere, emotion, and a form of non-verbal language. Through stitching, erasure, collage, and material intervention, Gonzalez creates paintings and installations that preserve traces of time, pressure, memory and change, turning each surface into a space where the personal and the universal can intersect.
Gonzalez’s work encourages slow viewing and reflection. Her installations are imbued with strong conceptual ideas, and her paintings provide spaces of connection between the personal and the collective, the scientific and the poetic, the visible and the unseen.
Marisabel has presented solo exhibitions at Lane Cove Art Gallery (2025), Hake House in Sydney (2024 and 2023), Curl Curl Creative Space in Sydney (2020), and Arianne Paffrath in Düsseldorf (2017). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Parliament House of NSW and the Manly Art Gallery and Museum in Sydney (2019), as well as at ASD in Den Haag (2017), among others.
Her recent recognition includes finalist selections for the Paddington Art Prize (2021), the Northern Beaches Environmental Art Prize (2024 and 2025), and the St. Columba’s Art Prize (2025 and 2026). She won the Collabor8 Women’s Art Prize (2023) and was selected as a semi-finalist for the Luca Biennale Cartasia in Italy (2024). Her work is held in private collections worldwide, including Barclays Private Bank in Sydney, the Stiftung Kleine Kunstdialog West/Ost in Düsseldorf, and the Axicorp Corporate Collections in Singapore and London.
Marisabel is represented by Hake House in Sydney, Australia.
Marisabel Gonzalez (b.1973, Caracas, Venezuela) is a Sydney-based contemporary artist whose work explores the relationship between landscape and body.
Drawing on her background as a physician and sonographer, her work stems from a continual interest in what lies beneath the surface. Blurring the line between body and landscape, she presents both as living archives of experience: layered and ever-changing.
Colour plays a central role in her practice, serving as atmosphere, emotion, and a form of non-verbal language. Through stitching, erasure, collage, and material intervention, Gonzalez creates paintings and installations that preserve traces of time, pressure, memory and change, turning each surface into a space where the personal and the universal can intersect.
Gonzalez’s work encourages slow viewing and reflection. Her installations are imbued with strong conceptual ideas, and her paintings provide spaces of connection between the personal and the collective, the scientific and the poetic, the visible and the unseen.
Marisabel has presented solo exhibitions at Lane Cove Art Gallery (2025), Hake House in Sydney (2024 and 2023), Curl Curl Creative Space in Sydney (2020), and Arianne Paffrath in Düsseldorf (2017). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Parliament House of NSW and the Manly Art Gallery and Museum in Sydney (2019), as well as at ASD in Den Haag (2017), among others.
Her recent recognition includes finalist selections for the Paddington Art Prize (2021), the Northern Beaches Environmental Art Prize (2024 and 2025), and the St. Columba’s Art Prize (2025 and 2026). She won the Collabor8 Women’s Art Prize (2023) and was selected as a semi-finalist for the Luca Biennale Cartasia in Italy (2024). Her work is held in private collections worldwide, including Barclays Private Bank in Sydney, the Stiftung Kleine Kunstdialog West/Ost in Düsseldorf, and the Axicorp Corporate Collections in Singapore and London.
Marisabel is represented by Hake House in Sydney, Australia.
2017, Art History and Appreciation, The Art Institute, Sydney, AU
2016, Painting (tutored by Roger Crawford), National Art School, Sydney, AU
2013, Mixed Media Painting (tutored by Judith White), Ewart Art School and Gallery, Sydney, AU
2008, Diagnostic Medical Ultrasonography, ASUM, Sydney, AU
2003, Drawing and Oil Painting (tutored by Conchita Firgau), Weston Art Institute, Weston, Florida, US
2002, Drawing and Painting, Armando Reveron National Art School, Caracas, VE
2001, Doctor of Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, VE
2025, De Rerum Natura, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney, AU
2024, Chasing Horizons, Hake House, Sydney, AU
2023, Palimpsest, Hake House, Sydney, AU
2021, Boring No More, MG Art Studio, Sydney, AU
2020, Inward, Curl Curl Creative Space, Sydney, AU
2017, Destination: Color, Arianna Paffrath, Düsseldorf, DE
2017, Against the Wall, Gaffa Creative Precinct, Sydney, AU
2017, Colours in D Minor, Art2Muse Gallery, Sydney, AU
2026, Threshold, LEDA Gallery, Newcastle, AU
2025, Common Ground, Hake House of Art, Sydney, AU
2024, Fearless, Pseudonym Art Gallery, Newcastle, AU
2024, Uneven Terrain, Lane Cove Regional Gallery and Museum, Sydney, AU
2024, Worldmaking, Hake House of Art, Sydney, AU
2023, Connected, Ellipsis Gallery, Sydney, AU
2021, The Padding Art Prize Finalists Exhibition, Defiance Gallery, Sydney, AU
2021, Abstraction, The Space Gallery, Sydney, AU
2021, Spring Forward: No Falling Back, The Wellington Gallery, Sydney, AU
2020, Common Ground, VANDAL Sydney, Sydney, AU
2019, Colors and Shapes of NSW, Parliament House of NSW, Sydney, AU
2019, Summer Show, Sydney Road Gallery, Sydney, AU
2019, HOME Bi-annual Finalists Exhibition, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney, AU
2017, LAND Bi-annual Finalists Exhibition, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney, AU
2017, 15th International Art Exhibition, ASD Den Haag, Den Haag, NL
2016, Annual Charity Auction, Sydney Breast Cancer Institute, Sydney
2016, 4 Corners, Warringah Creative Space, Sydney, AU
2015, H-Art, Stir-Up Gallery, Sydney, AU
2015, Converging Latitudes, Warringah Creative Space, Sydney, AU
Prizes:
2026, St Columba's Art Prize (finalist), Springwood, AU
2025, Northern Beaches Environmental Art Prize (finalist), Sydney, AU
2025, St Columba's Art Prize (finalist), Springwood, AU
2024, LEDA Art Prize (finalist), Newcastle, AU
2024, Northern Beaches Environmental Art Prize (finalist), Sydney, AU
2024, Lucca Biennale Cartasia (semi-finalist), Lucca, IT
2023, Collabor8 Women Art Prize (winner), Sydney AU
2021, The Paddington Art Prize (finalist), Sydney, AU
2021, Bluethumb Art Prize (finalist), Sydney, AU
2020, Bluethumb Art Prize (finalist), Sydney, AU
2019, Bushwick South Studio Residency Program (artist in residence), Sydney, AU
2017, Bushwick South Studio Residency Program (artist in residence), Sydney, AU
2016, Thirty by Thirty (finalist), Colour Trap Gallery, Sydney, AU
Residencies:
2026, The Corridor Project Artist in Residence, AU
2026, Krinklewood Estate. Broke, NSW. AU
2016, Warringah Creative Space Residency (round 4), Sydney, AU
2016, Bushwick South Studio Residency Program (artist in residence), Sydney, AU
2015, Warringah Creative Space Residency (round 3), Sydney, AU
2024, Affordable Art Fair, MG & Co Art Gallery, Sydney, AU
2024, Affordable Art Fair, MG & C0 Art Gallery, Brisbane, AU
2023, Affordable Art Fair, MG & Co Art Gallery, Sydney, AU
2022, Fiesta (solo presentation), The Other Art Fair, Sydney, AU
2022, Affordable Art Fair, Lara Scolari Gallery, Sydney, AU
2019, Handle with Care (solo presentation), The Other Art Fair, Sydney AU
2018, Summer (solo presentation), The Other Art Fair, Sydney, AU
Barclays Private Bank, Sydney AU
Stiftung Kleine Kunstdialog West/Ost, Düsseldorf, AU
AXICORP Corporate Collection, Singapore, SG
AXICORP Corporate Collection, London, UK
Private collections in Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, the United States of America, the Arab Emirates, Canada, Singapore, and Australia
Selected texts:
2024, Abstract Expressions (by Doug Clark), Art & Style Magazine, Australia
2024, The Alchemy of Art and Science (essay by Ewan Shah), AATONAU Contemporary Art, Korea
2023, Palimpsest, Exhibition Feature (by Maxime Foucquet), Contemporary Art Issue, Belgium
2021, Exploring the landscape through abstract art (essay by Emma K. Wilson), This is Tomorrow
2017, Destination Color (essay by Dagmar Haas-Pilwat), The Rheinische Post, Düsseldorf, DE
Selected interviews:
2026. Curatory Magazine Interview. Issue 15. Hungary
2024, Can Passion Pay the Bills?, Artwork Archive, USA
2023, Five Questions to Marisabel Gonzalez, Art Radar Magazine, GER
2022, Bright, bold, and beautiful abstract artworks, Style Curator Magazine, AU
2022, In Conversation with Marisabel Gonzalez, Art Edit Magazine, AU
2021, Oh Yeah: Marisabel Gonzalez, The Tawny Frogmouth, Sydney, AU
2017, Euro TV (interview Katherina Zilkowski), Düsseldorf, DE
Video:
Palimpsest Solo Exhibition-Behind the Scenes (2023) produced by Kayapa CS
Arx Gallery London - Artist Introduction (2022) produced by Josefina Vargas
Boring No More Solo Exhibition - Behind the Scenes (2021) produced by Josefina Vargas
Marisabel Gonzalez and Gallerie Paffrath Interview by Katherina Zilkowski (2017), Dusseldorf, DE
Being human is messy, raw and layered; so is my art. Deeply personal, yet it has a universal resonance, as I explore the essence of our humanity.
Being human is messy, raw and layered; so is my art. Deeply personal, yet it has a universal resonance, as I explore the essence of our humanity.
The process feels much like my work in medical imaging, where I investigate and build images through constant inquiry.
The process feels much like my work in medical imaging, where I investigate and build images through constant inquiry.
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