Rosa (Rosita) Schandy grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay, enriching herself with the illustrations and drawings she saw in books and those her dad did.  She is self made Collage Artist, inspired by a life of admiring art, color and form.  Her collages are entirely manual; she playfully combines images in compositions that are as precarious and ridiculous as they are balanced and aesthetic.  

Throughout her life, Rosita Schandy has explored techniques in a wide array of media.  Her creativity took her to paint on canvas and leather, then to decoupage on canvas until she fell prey to the “passionate technique”  of analog collage, as she describes it.

Life took Schandy to the sea working on cruise ships to make a living and at the end of her busy days, she would sometimes unwind and relax by cutting from magazines she bought in the ports and composing small collages in A4 and A3 size.  She was immediately hooked.  

After 2020 she stayed at home and intensely submerged into composing collages and collaborating with collage collectives around the world.

Without disrespecting the subject of the materials used, Schandy places them in a way that is both light and fun as well as powerful and thought provoking; her collages operate like a theatre where the artist sets the stage for the viewer to step in and become the author of their own story.

In May 2024, Schandy had her first solo exhibition “Imaginarium” which opened for a month at the  Art Hall Sala de Arte Carlos F. Saez within the Ministry of Transport and Public Works in Montevideo.  There she debuted with over 35 new pieces and a large-scale mural collage which earned her very positive reviews.  The artwork showed Schandy’s penchant for mixing high and low culture with objects of beauty.  In her pieces, such concepts as the feminine shape, ornaments, fantasy and surrealist intertwined with religious icons, flowers and comic characters in some sort of playful dance, with a touch of protest, sarcasm and balanced ridiculousness. 

Her works have been shown in TAZART Art Gallery in Montevideo and are part of private collections in Argentina, England, Paraguay, Brazil, Switzerland, Peru, Norway and the United States.

In 2021 Schandy created the Uruguayan Collage Collective on Instagram (@uruguaycollagistas_collective) with the purpose of grouping Uruguayan collagists local and overseas and link them to other collectives around the world.

Exhibitions & Awards:

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  Stand participating at the PA 25, Proyecto Arte 2nd Edition - Art Fair/Exhibition in the Centre of Events of LATU, Montevideo, Uruguay -  August 8-9-10 2025
  


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  Exhibition (shared) with the Culture in Movement collective - MUJERARTE - 8 M - Hall of the Salvo Palace, Montevideo, Uruguay  -  March 6 - 8 2025
  


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  Exhibition (shared) with the Culture in Movement collective at the Governance of Punta del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay - January 31 - February 8, 2025
  


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  Exhibition (street) with UY Artists - Calle 20 in Punta del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay - January 5, 2025
  


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  Exhibition (solo) IMAGINARIUM - Espacio Arte - Carrasco Lawn Tennis, Montevideo, Uruguay - October 2 - 18, 2024 
  


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  Exhibition (solo) IMAGINARIUM - Art Hall Sala Carlos F. Saez, Montevideo, Uruguay Curators Gabriel Sosa and Alejandro Langlois - May 31 to July 4, 2024
  


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  Stand participating at the Open Air Gallery for the 150th Anniversary of Tristan Narvaja, Montevideo, Uruguay - October 2020.
  


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  Participation in the 1st International Contest of Contemporary Art, Villa Joyosa, Spain - December 2020 - awarded a mention in Collage category.  
  


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  Participation in the Luxembourg National Art Prize in 2021 and 2022.
  


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  Exhibition/Collaboration for the Pocket Collage Museum (3 pieces), Samara, Russia - April 2021
  


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  Exhibition in the Sint Amandsberg Library during World Collage Day (2 pieces), Gent, Belgium - May 2021
  


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  Selected for the Fragmented Collective Online Exhibition for World Collage Day (1 piece), Edinburg, Scotland -  May 2021
  


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  Exhibition Book Art (2 pieces), Palacio Legislativo (the Parliament), Montevideo, Uruguay - May 2022
  


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  Selected for the Exhibition Collage Artists of America, "Internal Dialogues" (2 pieces) - regional exhibition, Curator Jim Morphesis, Southern California,  EEUU - November 1-30, 2022.  
  


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  Selected for the Exhibition “Da Vinci Selection", Gallery Art in Places, (3 pieces) at the Anspach Galerie, Brussels, Belgium - November 7-19, 2022.
  

Publications:

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  KOLAJ Magazine (USA), May 2025 - selected as the Collage Artist to design the cover, poster and set of 8 postcards for the special edition of the magazine for World College Day - ISSN 1927-6893 Kolaj, pages 8 to 11, works, bio and critic by Editor, published May 10, 2025.
  


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  LENTO Magazine, La Diaria weekly -  October 2024 edition Year XII - ISSN 2301-0584, Page 49, full page illustration for article entitled “Semilla Fuerte”. 
  


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  KOLAJ Magazine (USA), April / May 2021 Special Edition, ISSN 1927-6893, Page 44, Collage work and bio.
  


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  Limited Edition, Volume III Art Certificate (EU) - International Contemporary Artists 2020 - Only the Best - Page 114 (Awards). (www.artcertificate.eu)
  


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  Art Guide Book Art, annual publish, Edition 2020, Pages 76 and 77.  Montevideo, Uruguay - Collage work and bio.
  


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  Cover design to the book of poems by Nancy Ghan, entitled "Biologia", Montevideo, Uruguay - May 2021
  


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  Selected together with 99 other artists from a pool of 2000 participants from around the world, for the publication by the Art in Collage Collective, Arizona, USA - World Collage Day 2021, (1 piece) page 81, ISBN 978-1-927587-57-7, published by the Collective in collaboration with Kolaj Magazine and Kasini House Publishers.
  

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