Cristina Fournier Beeche
Personal data
Born: San Jose, Costa Rica 1937
Post Office Box: 252 Escazú 1250, Costa Rica
Telephone: (506)2228 06 28 Fax: (506) 2228 04 19
Email: crisfour@yahoo.com y cristina@cristinafournier.com
Studies:
1955 Colegio Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, California, Estados Unidos.
1957-58 Academy of San Andrea, Rome, Italy
1956-60 Bachelor of Fine Arts University of Costa Rica,
Cum Laude
Languages:
ESpanish, English, French, Italian.
Professional Experience:
– Commercial Art (1960-1980)
– Diplomatic (Cultural Attaché)
– Professor (Institutions 1970-1976, 1999); Private art lessons (1976-2002).
– Judge (art competitions)
Individual Exhibitions:
Cristina Fournier has had more than 80 exhibitions, in many countries around the world,
including: France (Paris, Lourmarin, Compiegne, Tours, Descartes), United States
United States (Washington DC, Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia), Italy (Rome, Milan),
Germany (Hann. Munden), Spain (Madrid), Israel (Jerusalem), Austria (Graz),
Netherlands (Breda, Eindhoven, Berkel Enschot, Maastricht, The Hague), Bahrain (Manama)
Singapore, Honduras (San Pedro, Sula; Tegucigalpa), El Salvador (San Salvador),
Guatemala (Ciudad de Guatemala), Colombia (Bogotá), Ecuador (Quito), Perú (Lima),
Chile (Santiago), Jamaica (Kingston), Puerto Rico (San Juan).
Private, Corporate and Government Collections:
Museums, Banks, Clubs and Hotels, in Government institutions (Costa Rica)
Presidents of Costa Rica:
Mario Echandi, 1973 / Oscar Arias, 1982 / Rafael A Calderón, 1990 / Miguel Angel
Rodríguez, 1989.
Ambassadors:
Shimon Agour, Israel-1992 / DJ Van Houten, Netherlands-1991 / Fernando Simas, Brazil-
1984 / Tomás Soley Soler, Costa Rica-1985, 1994 / Pierre Sazarin, France-1984 / J.
Debroise, France-1974 / Francis Filleul, Canada-1985 / Stanley Gooch, Canada-1985
/ Nehemías Tevel, Israel-1991 / John Jova, United States -1966 / Manuel Hernández, Costa
Rica-1960,1980, 1991, 1992 / Federico Álvarez, Costa Rica – 1982, 1986, 1992 /
Charles de Pamplona, France-1978 / Harold Nestroy Germany 1986 / Jan Willem
Bertens, Holland-1988.
Government Gifts from Costa Rica:
President Pérez, Venezuela-1980 / Minister of Foreign Affairs, Spain -1982 /
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia 1983 / Lady Gloria Hooper, United Kingdom-1985 / Oscar Arias,
Former President of Costa Rica-1986 (Nobel Peace Prize) / Prime Minister of Japan-
1986 / UNESCO, Paris, France-1989 / M. Gorbachev, Russia-1990 / Community
European Commission Brussels 1990, 1991 / European Community Office in Belgium-1991 /
United Nations-1995, Gift from the Government of Costa Rica for the Fiftieth Anniversary of
the United Nations, offered by the Minister of Foreign Affairs / His Majesty
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, offered by President Figueres-1996.