ESTUDIO PALMA is a Santiago-based practice run by photographer Cristóbal Palma.

 

email: mail@estudiopalma.cl

mobile: +56 999961722

 

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@cristobalpalma

 

 

 

BIO

 

Cristóbal Palma is a Chilean photographer based in Santiago. Born in Oxford, he studied architecture at the Architectural Association (AA) in London, where he began a professional practice centred on architecture and the built environment. In 2008 he founded Estudio Palma in Santiago.


His editorial work has been published in El Croquis, Casabella, The World of Interiors, Wallpaper, Monocle, and Dwell. He collaborates regularly with architects in Chile and Latin America.


Alongside his commissioned work, he develops self-initiated projects that approach the city as a field of observation and visual construction. His work is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and has been exhibited internationally.

 

 

 

CV

 

Education
1999 RIBA Part I, Architectural Association (AA), London
 

Solo Exhibitions
2026 Lima, Barco Galería, Santiago
2024 La ciudad ideal, Biblioteca UDP, Santiago
2023 Villa 31, Galería Gallo, Santiago
2022 Prólogo, Espacio Andrea Brunson, Santiago
2019 The Dysfunction of the Oblique, Oris House of Architecture, Zagreb
2015 Construcción, Galería XS, Santiago
2014 Espacio continuo, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Santiago
2014 Punto de vista, Galería Tajamar, Santiago
2012 Espacio continuo, AFA Galería, Santiago
2009 Paisajes locales, AFA Galería, Santiago
2006 Subproductos del paisaje, Die Ecke, Santiago
2003 Sudamericana City, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Santiago
2002 beaching…, Galería Animal, Santiago


Biennials
2025 Lugar común, 6th Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago
2018 Aulario, Venice Architecture Biennale (Barclay & Crousse), Venice
2016 La mirada de Pedro, Venice Architecture Biennale (Grupo Talca), Venice
2012 Cancha: Chilean Soilscapes, Venice Architecture Biennale, Chilean Pavilion, Venice
2010 Detached, Venice Architecture Biennale (Pezo von Ellrichshausen), Venice


Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 FFAST 6: La casa onírica, NIDO Lucía, Santiago
2026 Proyecto Kavanagh, Espacio Cora, Buenos Aires
2024 FFAST 3: Palimpsesto, Santiago
2024 Pica pica, bajada cordón, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires
2021 Building Citizens, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
2021 Power Structures, Bermondsey Project Space, London
2020 Casa Chilena, Centro Cultural La Moneda, Santiago
2019 La modernidad. Miradas Latinoamericanas, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City
2019 Global Architecture Profiling, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
2016 Building Optimism: Public Space in South America, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
2014 Conceptions of Space, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
2012 Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

 

Collections
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York

 

Lectures & Talks
2026 Lima, Co-Living Studio, School of Architecture UC, Santiago
2025 Intuition and Practice, UIC School of Architecture, Chicago
2024 Arquitectura y Fotografía, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago
2023 From Environment to Photography, The Berlage, Delft
2023 Practice & Projects, Architectural Association, London
2019 Days of Oris, Zagreb
2017 Architecture Film Festival London, London
2015 Escola da Cidade, São Paulo