Biography & Trajectory


Olga Sinclair
was born in the city of Panama in 1957. She started painting's studies with her father, the painter Alfredo Sinclair, and at the age of 14 participated for the first time in a collective exhibition amongst professional painters.

 In 1976 she went to the Academy of Applied Arts in Madrid, Spain, to study. There she also took three years of classic art drawing lessons at the Arjona Studio.
Back in Panama, she obtained her BA-degree in Interior Design in 1984. At the same time she took engraving lessons in Giangranddi studio. Then she continued her studies in London for another two years.

In 1987 Olga moves to Bolivia, where she was Cultural Attaché to the Panamanian Embassy.  Later she moves to Jakarta, Indonesia, where her two daughters, Natasha and Suzanna, were born. Since 1994 Olga and her family reside again in Panama.

 

In 1997 the B'nai B'rtih Irving Zapp of Panama gave her the B'nai B'rtih reward for personality of the year. In the same way she received from the Intellectual Group of Women of Panama, CIMIP, the Intellectual Orchid in 1999.

For her cultural contribution to the Panamanian Community - lecturing to public and private schools and universities - the Foundation for Development, ACDE, paid homage to Olga in the year of Panama's Centennial, 2003. From the Glamour magazine she received the Woman of the Year 2004 price, Premium of the Readers. In the same year she also was distinguished by the humanistic foundation Soka Gakkai International of Panama.

Sensitive to the social problems and development in her country, Olga has participated in various foundations and National Committees during the past years. She is a member of the Foundation Development of the Free Citizen; The National Education Counsel; Vital Voices - Panama Chapter; United Nations Development Program (UNDP); Foundation Let Me Be Your Friend for Disabled People; FundaAyuda Foundation, against breast cancer; and she has been appointed Ambassador of CATHALAC, (Coordinated research on hydrological processes), for whom she designes the Latin-American PLACA prize. Also, in 2007, one of her paintings is printed on the new collection of Isabel Sartorius, in benefit of Global Humanitarian ONG to help poor children.

Since 2000 she has participated in many colective exhibitions and in 2007 she experiments a new face: sculpture, which is inagurated with the exhibition “Es la Pera”. This year she also starts the “Painting with Olga Sinclair” workshops , where she gathers hundreds of children at Urraca park to paint and draw.
 

 

 

 

Artistic  Trajectory






 



 

Beginning '70 End
'70

Mid
'80

Beginning
'90

Beginning
XXI Century

     

2007

New phase: sculptures

     


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