Julia San Román                     An artist born in Madrid, Spain and now residing in San Diego, CA, Julia was originally trained as a Ph.D. Biomedical scientist. In 1988, she immigrated to the United States to do scientific research. Twelve years later, in a turning point of her life, she decided to dedicate her life to her long time passion, painting and for that purpose she attended college for training in Studio Arts and Art History. Now, she is focused full time on her painting career.                           Julia has exhibited in several solo and group shows in San Diego, Los Angeles and Santa Fe, NM. She was the recipient of five awards from the San Diego Art Institute for exhibitions between 2004-2009. In 2006, based on her comprehensive body of work, she was selected by the Chief Curator of American Art of the San Diego Museum of Art to exhibit in a group show at Gallery 15, within the museum premises. In 2008, her work  "Cante Jondo”  was selected by Robin Clark,  Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the Executive Director of the Museum of Photographic Arts  to participate in the 17th Annual Juried Exhibition at the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library in La Jolla. The same series has been chosen for a 6 month period installation at West-End Gallery, San Diego International Airport.        Julia grew up in a neighborhood close to the Prado Museum and was exposed at an early age to the art of the old European Masters. She attended school in a 17th century building belonging to the Order of Mercy and spent her childhood running through corridors embellished with antiques and original paintings by the baroque master, Zurbarán.                       " The unifying quality of my paintings is their romantic nature. As a romantic painter I yearn for the pure, transcendental and universal in life. Thus, I create my art to convey a state of mind that longs to escape the quotidian. Being raised with a strong sense of the past, I like to look back in history to transcend the face of a present world that I find socially and technically alienating."                                           Julia became an American citizen in 2002 and currently lives in the East County mountains of San Diego.             Thanks to all.