about the artist
Since the early 1990s, my work has focused on creating two and three dimensional artworks, conceptual objects, and installations based on current sociopolitical issues. Through art I have often tried to better understand the social and psychological implications of conflict and engage the public in self reflection. My art addresses issues of longing, fear, grief and vanity. I juxtapose materials such as charcoal, ink, wood, metal, wax, water, glass, light, and photographs that together have symbolic relevance to the issue I’m exploring. I use these different mediums to express these ideas and tell a story that is universally understood, but sometimes experienced more intensely by a subset of our societies.
I graduated from the Universidad de Bogota Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogota Colombia. Upon receiving my BA degree in Fine Art, I began addressing the social and psychological implications of Colombia’s armed conflict on its civil society. In 1999 I received my MA degree in Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London UK. I worked as a professor in the Fine Arts Departments at the Universidad de los Andes and the Universidad de Bogota Jorge Tadeo Lozano, in Bogota, Colombia. I moved to the USA in 2002, and since 2014 I have lived and worked in Memphis, TN, where I am currently serving as an Exhibition Committee Member for the Brooks Museum, an Artist Advisory Council Member for ArtsMemphis, and an Official Advisor for Locate Arts in Nashville, TN. I have also worked on public art projects including the Memphis Upstanders mural at Facing History and Ourselves and the stairwell murals in the Fogelman Building at the University of Memphis.
