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Photo: Antonia Mir

Date of granting: 7 july 2017.

By proposal of: Esteban Morcillo Sánchez Principal of the University of Valencia.

Date of deliverance: 1 december 2017.

Biographical outline:

Antonia Mir (Catarroja 1928) is member of the Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos de Valencia. Graduated in Painting by the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos de Valencia, she also graduated in Fine Arts in Valencia. She received a grant in the House of Velázquez of Madrid, and by the General Directorate of Cultural Relations to study in the school of Metiers d'Art and in the school of Fine Arts, in Paris, she completed her training in engraving in the Scuola Internacional de Venezia.

She has developed her teaching activity in middle schools as a professor of drawing, and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally. It highlights her presence in Madrid, Venice, Lisbon, Paris, New York and Brussels.

The Antonia Mir Museum of Catarroja was inaugurated in 2007, and the Antonia Mir Foundation of the Valencia Region was established in 2011.

She has been granted many honours, medals, honourable mentions and tributes, among them, the Premi Senyera de Pintura de l’Ajuntament de València, that paid tribute to her in 2013 on the occasion of International Day of Working Women.

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