Patricia Israel Korenblit (Temuco, February 18, 1939 - Santiago de Chile, November 21, 2011) was a Chilean painter and engraver attached to the Neo-Expressionist movement who entered during the Augusto Pinochet Military Dictatorship in expressive and contentious forms of denunciation of the political situation of the country.It was the first woman to win the International Biennial of Art of Valparaiso in 1991 with La llegada. After studying sculpture with Tótila Albert Schneider, he studied painting and engraving at the University of Chile from 1958 to 1962, where he was a student of Augusto Eguiluz, Gustavo Carrasco, José Balmes, Alberto Pérez and Eduardo Martínez Bonati, and graduated with a degree in arts visual effects. In his work, "a gestural expressionism flows alongside the figuration provided by a solid graphic, which is then pictorially intervened." The year 2001 received a nomination to the Altazor Prize of the National Arts in the category Painting by the great silence, whereas the year 2010 received another nomination in Engraving and drawing by Printed Bodies, the year 2012 received this award in the category Painting by Geographies. Patricia Israel exhibited collectively and individually in several countries in Latin America, the United States and Europe while some of her works are in the House of the Americas in Havana, the Museum of Visual Arts in Santiago, the Museum of Art Moderno Chiloé, the National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile, the Museum of Solidarity Salvador Allende, among others.