Cristina Bergoglio

Cristina Bergoglio (born 25 August 1967) is an Argentine painter, writer and architect, and the niece of the late Pope Francis.

Career Born in Córdoba, Argentina, Bergoglio studied at the Taller de Pintura de María Finochietti in Argentina from 1983 to 1986, and received her Titulación Superior (higher qualifications) in urban architecture from the National University of Córdoba in 1996. Her first exhibitions were in the late 1980s. where she attended the Taller de Pintura Emma Gans in Madrid, In June, 2014, her works were displayed in an exhibit at the Conrad Hotel in the Brickell neighborhood of Miami. In 2017, she was one of twenty artists with works featured in a charitable exhibit and auction at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, and in 2018, her works were shown at the Doorway Gallery in Dublin, Ireland. Her showing in Dublin, including paintings of the city that she had prepared for the occasion, coincided with a visit to Ireland by Pope Francis, though the gallery exhibition was planned a year before the Pope's visit was announced.

In addition to painting and teaching, she has written pieces for several magazines, and published several books, Vivir renaciendo (Live Reborn),

Personal life As of 2020, Bergoglio resides in Spain.

In an interview, she indicated that she only met Pope Francis once, where she "gifted him with a painting of the city of Assisi in Italy", Bergoglio and other family members chose not to attend his funeral, reportedly out of respect for his view that their resources would be better spent charitably.