42 20th century Chilean painters

Nemesio Antúnez Zañartu was an influential Chilean painter and engraver who founded Workshop 99.

Ximena Armas is a Chilean painter.

Herminia Arrate Ramírez was a painter and First Lady of Chile as wife of President Carlos Dávila Espinoza.

José Balmes Parramón was a Spanish-born painter based in Chile. He received Chile's National Prize for Plastic Arts in 1999.

Gracia Barrios Rivadeneira was a Chilean painter and the winner of the 2011 National Prize for Plastic Arts.

Samy Mauricio Benmayor Benmayor is a Chilean painter who formed part of the Generation of '80 movement.

Roser Bru Llop is a Spanish-born Chilean painter and engraver associated with the neo-figurative art movement.

Pablo Burchard was a Chilean painter. His father was German architect Teodoro Burchard Haeberle, who arrived in Chile around 1855, and introduced the Gothic style, and his mother was María (Sofía) Luisa Eggeling Metzger. He taught in the University of Chile's School of Fine Arts from 1932 to 1959, and he won the National Prize of Art of Chile in 1944.

Manuel Antonio Caro Olavarría was a Chilean painter and is classed among Chile's best-loved artists. The son of Victorino Caro y Cárcamo and Asunción de Olavarría y Sierpe, he was named Caro Olavarría. The first Chilean student to attend the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Caro's body of work included portraits and scenes of everyday life, and earned him high honors and international recognition.

Álvaro Casanova Zenteno was a prominent Pintor marinista y de hechos Navales Históricos, Hombre de Estado His art is classified as realist, expressionist, classicial, and romantic.

Celia Castro was the first professional female visual artist in Chile. Her style is generally associated with Realism.

Eugenio Cruz Vargas was a notable Chilean poet and painter. His art was developed under the naturalistic landscape and abstraction, and his collection of poems under the concepts of surrealism and culminate in the literary creationism.)

José Tomás Errázuriz Urmeneta was a Chilean landscape painter and diplomat.

Freddy Flores Knistoff is a painter and writer born in Viña del Mar, Chile in 1948. He has lived in Amsterdam since 1985.

Generación del 13 was Chile's first painter collective. Its name derives from the year 1913, after a joint exhibition was held at the Salon of the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio in the preceding year. The group and its work are characterized by a fascination with Creole art and customs, social criticism, and portrayal of the proletariat, a subject that hitherto was not depicted in Chilean art.

Juan Francisco González Escobar is known as one of the four Great Chilean Masters and as the archetypal romantic bohemian artist of the early 20th century. He was the most prolific of the Chilean masters, leaving an estimated 4,000 works, and was also notable for being one of Chile's first modern painters. He was seen as a symbol of the new creative generation that appeared in 20th century Chile, with a style highly influenced by impressionism and local elements.

Álvaro Guevara Reimers was a painter, based in London and loosely associated with the Bloomsbury set.

Nicolás Guzmán Bustamante was a Chilean painter and draftsman. His art is categorized as romanticism and realism.

Carlos Isamitt Alarcón was a Chilean painter and composer.

Onofre Jarpa Labra was a Chilean landscape painter in the Romantic style, and an essayist on various artistic topics.

Laureano Ladrón de Guevara Romero (1889–1968), better known as Laureano Guevara, was born in Molin on June 18, 1889 and died in Santiago de Chile on November 21, 1968. He was a Chilean painter, printmaker and muralist.

Pedro Francisco Lira Rencoret was a Chilean painter and art critic, who organized exhibitions that led to the establishment of the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts. He is best known for his eclectic portraits of women.

Enrique Lynch del Solar was a painter of portraits, and ocean landscapes, a pioneer of the Chilean Modernist art movement. He studied painting in Paris, France with Diogène Maillart. Upon his return to Chile, he became Director of the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts "Museo de Bellas Artes en Parque Forestal".

Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren, better known as Roberto Matta, was one of Chile's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art.

Aurora Mira Mena (1863–1939) was a Chilean painter. Together with her elder sister Magdalena, she was one of the earliest recognized female painters not only in Chile but in the whole of Latin America. She was also one of the first women to graduate from the Santiago School of Painting.

Magdalena Mira Mena (1859–1930) was a Chilean painter and sculptor. Together with her younger sister Aurora, she was one of the earliest recognized female painters not only in Chile but in the whole of Latin America. She was also one of the earliest women to study art at the Santiago School of Painting.

Pedro Reszka Moreau was a Chilean painter. He won the National Prize of Art of Chile in 1947.

Camilo Mori Serrano was a painter and a founder of the Grupo Montparnasse.

Ximena Morla Lynch (1891–1987), also known as Ximena Morla de Subercaseaux, was a Chilean feminist writer and painter. The daughter of writer Luisa Lynch and conservative politician Carlos Morla Vicuña, she had five siblings, including Carlos, a diplomat, and Carmen, a writer. Her granddaughter is the novelist Elizabeth Subercaseaux.

Alberto Orrego Luco was a Chilean Impressionist landscape painter and diplomat.

Manuel Ortiz de Zárate Pinto was a Castilian painter, born in Italy and raised in Chile. He was active from 1902 to 1945, in Paris and in Italy.

Arturo Pacheco Altamirano was a painter born in Chillán, Chile. He died in Santiago in 1978.

Osvaldo Reyes Herrera was a Chilean artist who lived in Chile, Mexico, and Canada.

Cosme San Martín Lagunas was a Chilean painter and the first Director of the "Academia de Pintura" who was born in Chile.

Thomas Jacques Somerscales was an English teacher, sailor, and landscape and marine painter. He is also considered a Chilean painter as he began his career as an artist there. Many of his landscapes evoke the region and many of his marine paintings feature notable events in Chilean naval history and have become patriotic national icons in that country.

Carlos Sotomayor Román (1911–1988) was a Chilean painter, born in La Serena, Chile. He is considered to be one of the principal exponents of the cubism from South America.

Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña was a Chilean painter, politician and diplomat.

Pedro León Maximiano María Subercaseaux Errázuriz was a Chilean painter; son of the painter and diplomat Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña. He painted many portraits about events from the history of Chile, such as the Crossing of the Andes. He painted portraits of the history of Argentina requested during the Argentina Centennial. He married Elvira Lyon Otaégui in 1907, but the Pope later annulled their marriage so that they could both get into religious orders.

Mario Toral Muñoz is a Chilean painter and photographer.

Alberto Valenzuela Llanos, was one of Chile's greatest painters and one of the four Great Chilean Masters, along with Pedro Lira, Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma and Juan Francisco González. He was a landscape painter and left an estimated 1,000 paintings. Highlights of his work include paintings of the snow-topped mountains in France and views of Paris.

Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma, was one of Chile's best-known painters and one of the four artists known as the Great Chilean Masters. ]

Ricardo Yrarrázaval Larraín is a Chilean painter and ceramist. The central theme of his work is man and his status in society.