About
MARiU
As a Nicaraguan art magnate and founder of contemporary visual expression, Mariu’s art has seen expositions all over the world. Her pieces have been featured in worldwide exhibitions like RED Dot Miami, Festival Arte en Mayo, and other countries like Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Uruguay, and more.
Mariu F. Lacayo
“If looking at my art evokes the same feeling on the observer that I felt when I worked on the art piece, I will feel satisfied as an artist.”
– Mariu F. Lacayo
Mariu was born in 1962 in Managua, Nicaragua, more than a decade before the devastating revolution. Her artistic trajectory began at a young age, showing interest in painting and illustration before her teenage years. With the opportunity to travel to countries like Italy, Spain, and other European magnates of contemporary art and expression, Mariu’s evolution as an artist began from religious imagery, to textile art, to contemporary, modern paintings inspired by quantum string theory. She aims to stimulates public observation or kinetic art as an optical and mental exercise, encouraging the viewer to create new and better interdimensions from our imagination.
Through her art, she proposes acceptance of our diversity and phenomenology, in order to accept “our other,” both the one who resides within us—who judges us harshly—and the one outside, our neighbor, who is also judged from our perspective.
Education
Estudios de Pintura
Scuola di Arte Vigna Chiara.
Roma, Italia
1983
Estudios de Pintura Hiperrealista
Maestro Reynaldo Hernandez.
Managua, Nicaragua
1996-2003
Curso de Arte del Renacimiento al Impresionismo
Dra. Belgica Rodriguez.
Managua, Nicaragua
2003
Historia del Arte Contemporaneo
Milagros Bello.
Miami, Florida
2005
Shows
Texturas Magicas
Banco Central De Nicaragua
Managua, Nicaragua
2005
Quantum Garden
Red Dot Miami
Miami, Florida
2017
Homenaje a Ixchel
Festival Arte En Mayo
Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala
2017
Realidades Paralelas
Dialogo Contemporaneo
Managua, Nicaragua
2023
Awards
Premio Carlos Montenegro
Best of Show
Banco Central de Nicaragua
2012
Her Art
Mariu F. Lacayo
Living In
Managua, Nicaragua