Gilda studied visual arts in Mexico, Canada and France.

She has won 24 national and international awards for her work in oil, acrylics and mixed media and 10 prizes for her photography.

She has had over 155 solo and group shows in Canada, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands, Ecuador, Mexico and the United States.

Her paintings are found in many private, public and corporate collections in Canada, Mexico, Chile, Malaysia, France, Guatemala, El Salvador, Ecuador, Peru, Poland, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Israel and the U.S.A.

In 2017 she was recognized by MELOG (Red de Mujeres Latinas Emprendedoras de Ottawa-Gatineau) https://www.facebook.com/groups/redmelog/ as one of the 150 outstanding Latinos who have made a difference in Canada.

In 2013 Jim Watson, Mayor of Ottawa, gave her a prize for her invaluable contribution to Visual Arts in the Latin and Canadian communities

In 2013 the Mexican government awarded Gilda the “Premio Ohtli” for her voluntary work and contributions to Canadian society and immigrant organizations.  She had donated more than 65 pieces of art and had helped in fund-raising events to help people, organizations and countries in need, such as the Children’s Aid Foundation, Canadian Leukemia Study Group, Ottawa General Hospital, Doctors without Borders, Team Canada Healing Hands, Canadian Federation of University Women,  Canada-Africa Community Health Alliance, etc. and countries such as Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Honduras, Peru Haiti and Bolivia when they were devastated by natural disasters.

In 2011 she was recognized by Jim Watson, Mayor of Ottawa with the ‘‘Civic Appreciation Award’’ for her invaluable voluntary work to benefit others in the Latin and Canadian communities.

In 2005 she won the First prize in the International competition “Imagine Don Quixote” and she was awarded a trip to Spain to visit La Mancha.

Gilda was elected President of the Canadian Academy of Women Artists in 2003, a non-profit organization dedicated to promote art.