Mexican-Italian architect and sculptor Chelita Zuckermann was born in Mexico City in 1965 and graduated in Architecture in 1991. In 2006, she relocated to Bolzano, Italy, where she embarked on her artistic journey. Drawing from her architectural background, she chose metal as her medium, a material she had often employed in her architectural projects. For Chelita, metal symbolizes strength and character, inspiring her to transform stainless steel, corten steel, and aluminum sheets into unique metal sculptures.

Architecture profoundly influences her creative process, shaping the design of her works and imbuing them with structural elegance. Chelita specializes in reflective sculptures crafted from polished stainless steel and aluminum. These pieces interact dynamically with their surroundings, adopting the colors of their environment and reflecting both natural and artificial light. Some of her sculptures are designed to move gracefully in the wind. 

Through her art, Chelita strives to evoke joy and light, blending strength, beauty, and harmony into every creation.

THREE SCULPTURES IN THREE MUSEUMS:  

• 2024 Italy, at the Museo Delle Donne Merano (Women's Museum Merano), with her sculpture: "Free to be a Woman".
• 2019 Italy, at the Jewish Museum in Casale Monferrato with her sculpture: Hannukkah - Miraculous Light"
• 2019 Mexico, at the Museo Papalote in Mexico City with her sculpture: "Papalotl the Monarch Butterfly"

SIXTEEN SCULPTURES IN PUBLIC PLACES:

• 2024 Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, since the 13/06/2024 her "Dolphin riding the wave" is now part of the artistic heritage of the Porto Rotondo Foundation and is the property of the Consortium to commemorate the 60 Years of Porto Rotondo and is placed in Porto Rotondo in Piazza Paguro Square.
• 2021 Bolzano, from 2021 to 2024, four of her sculptures are placed at Palais Campo Franco: "Our Eagle", "Pegasus beyond obstacle", "Bee - Queen of the ecosystem" and "Passage to Paradise and You become the Angel!"
•  2023 Ortisei, Val Gardena – Dolomites, her sculpture "Dolphin riding the wave" was placed in Ortisei on the main road, for The Biennale UNIKA.
•  2023 Val Badia – Dolomites, her sculpture "Snowboarder" is allocated to the Club Moritzino.
•  2022 Rome, her sculpture "Shiny Agave" is placed at the entrance of the Mexican Embassy in Rome, at the request of the Mexican Ambassador Carlos Garcia de Alba Zepeda, for the commemoration of the Centenary of the Mexican Embassy in Italy.
•  2021 Porto Rotondo in Sardinia, her sculpture "Light Angel" is positioned at the entrance to the church of Porto Rotondo and is part of the Artistic Heritage of the Porto Rotondo Foundation.
•  2019 Roncade, Treviso, her "Giant Shiny Agave" was the winner of the 13th Arte Laguna Award in the Business for Art category and is located in the cellar called 47 Anno Domini in Roncade (TV).
•  2019 Bolzano, her "Galactic Peacock" is part of a Bar Civico 22, and positioned inside the bar.
•  2017 Porto Rotondo in Sardinia, two of her Agaves are part of the Artistic Heritage of the Porto Rotondo Foundation and are owned by the Porto Rotondo Consortium: the "American Agave" located in Piazza Cascella and the "Curly Agave" located in Via Belli.
•  2017 Porto Rotondo in Sardinia, four of her sculptures (Agave) are part of the Hrusca Foundation and are located at the Hotel Sporting in Porto Rotondo.

ART AWARDS IN ITALY AND ABROAD

• 2023 Luxemburg at the 2023 Luxemburg Art Price, she recieved the Certificate of Artistic Merit from the Luxemburg Museum in recognition to her artistic qualities.
• 2022 Luxemburg at the 2022 Luxemburg Art Price, she recieved the Certificate of Artistic Merit from the Luxemburg Museum in recognition to her artistic qualities.
• 2020 Milan, Italy. She won the Biancoscuro Art Contest 2020 with the Artwork: Light Angel.
• 2019 Venice, Italy. 1st prize in the "13th Arte Laguna Prize" in the Business for Art category with the Artwork: Shiny giant Agave.
• 2018 Palm Springs, USA. 1st prize in the "4th. Annual Leaves & Petals Art Exhibition" of the Fusion Art Gallery, in the 3D Category with the Artwork: Cactus Flower.
• 2018 Palm Springs, USA. 1st prize in the "Holidays & Traditions Art Exhibition" of the Fusion Art Gallery, in the 3D Category with the Artwork: Christmas Pinecone.

 ART ASSOCIATIONS

• Member of the UNIKA group of Val Gardena, South Tyrol, Italy
  
• Member of the Südtiroler Künstlerbund Association of  South Tyrol, Italy
• Member of the “Colegio de Arquitectos Mexicanos” in Mexico.

COLLABORATIONS

·          LAMAROARTE, Porto Rotondo, Sardegna, Italia 

·          Daria Koth - EDITION PRO TERRA, Vienna, Austria

ART PRIVATE COLLECTIONS in Italy and abroad

• Italy: Rome, Milan, Florence, Turin, Bologna, Bolzano, Merano, Appiano, Alta Badia, Val Gardena, Garda, Cervia, Sardinia (Olbia, Porto Rotondo, Porto Cervo and Isola La Maddalena).
  
  
• Abroad: USA (Palm Beach and Palm Desert), Austria (Vienna), Great Britain (London), Monte Carlo, France (Aix en Provence), Finland (Helsinki), Mexico (Mexico City, Puerto Vallarta, Valle de Bravo and San Miguel Allende). 
• 2017 Landscape architecture project commissioned by a clinic in Sicily with rendering furnished with its own sculptures (Agaves and flowers).