Adriana Salazar (Born in Colombia, lives and works in Mexico City.) Her work as an artist has focused on the boundaries between life and death, nature and artifice, and the human and nonhuman. She has participated in exhibitions such as Thingworld (Triennial of Media Art, National Art Museum, Beijing) 2014, the California-Pacific Triennial (Orange County Museum of Art, California), and the Manif d’art de Québec (Espace GM 840, Québec). Adriana has also received fellowships from international artistic residencies, such as Akiyoshidai International Art Village (Japan), Nordik Artists’ Center (Norway), and Grand Central Art Center (United States). Her work is part of public collections such as the Bank of the Republic of Colombia, and UCR ArtsBlock in the United States. She received a BFA Honors degree from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University of Bogota, and a Magna cum Laude MFA degree in Philosophy, from the Javeriana University of Bogota. She is currently pursuing a PHD in Art Practice, under a fellowship granted by The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. Adriana has also worked as a Visiting Lecturer at the Javeriana University of Bogota, and at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University of Bogota.
Education 2014 UNAM, Mexico City. PHD Studies in Art Practice (ongoing). 2010 Javeriana University, Bogota. Magna cum Laude Masters Degree in Philosophy 2002 Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, Bogota. Bachelor in Fine Arts and recepient of the Jorge Tadeo Lozano Award for Academic Excellency
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Perpetuity. UCR ArtsBlock, Riverside. Cold Light. Santa Fe Gallery, Bogota. 2013 What Exists, What Doesn’t Exist. LA Galeria, Bogota. Nothing Else Left. Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana. 2012 Still Life. Fundación Teatro Odeón, Bogota. The Life of Dead Things. La Miscelanea, Mexico City. 2011 Failed Attempts. Casa Velasquez, Corumbá. 2010 Disappearing Exercises. LA Galería, Bogota. 2008 Doing it myself. Toulouse Gallery, Rio de Janeiro. Savage life. LA Gallery, Bogota. 2006 Measure. Alliance Française, Bogota. 2005 Machines that do things and things done with the hand. 302 Workshop, Bogota. 2003 The importance of being silent while staring. Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Theater, Bogota.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 De muerte presente. Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Germany. Aesthetica Art Prize 2016. Saint Mary’s, York. Salon ACME, Mexico City. Resonances from The Garden of Earthly Delights. Carrillo Gil Art Museum, Mexico City. In Present Time. Espacio Odeon, Bogota. 2015 Eight Tables: Between the Instant and the Pictoric Gesture. La Tallera, Cuernavaca, Mexico. Gender Heart. Varbergs Konsthall, Varberg, Sweden. La Vorágine. OMR Gallery, Mexico City. Nominal Nature. Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Madrid. 2014 Thingworld, New Media Art Triennial. National Art Museum of China, Beijing. Gender Heart. Havremagasinet, Boden, Sweden. Family Portrait. Jorge Tadeo Lozano University Art Museum, Bogota. Neo contemporaneo. TAC Gallery, Rio de Janeiro. Solo Project, Pinta Miami. Miami. Pulsations. El Nogal Gallery, Bogota. Small Format. El Castillo Museum, Medellin. 2013 Bogota, City on the Edge, Laznia Contemporary Art Center, Gdansk. 1
California-Pacific Triennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California. Entwine, Valenzuela y Klenner Gallery, Bogota. Artbo 2013. LA Galería, Corferias, Bogota. 43 Salón (Inter) Nacional de Artistas. Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellín. Cuestión de Corazón. El Museo Gallery, Bogota. Kinesthetics, Pratt institute, New York. Transitional, Sicardi Gallery, Houston. 2012 Pinta New York. LA Galeria, New York. Intersections. Museum of Modern Art, Bogota. Artbo 2012. LA Galería, Corferias, Bogota. Transits. LIA, Bogotá. Tribute to John Cage. Sala U, Medellin. Sonantes. ASAB Exhibition Lounge, Bogota. Escaping with the Landscape, Luz y Oficios Gallery, La Habana . Los Impolíticos. Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo. 2011 The Birdwatchers. Bitforms Gallery, New York Trivialities and Commonplaces. Sandra Montenegro Contemporary Art Art and movement. Galeria Marta Traba, Memorial de América Latina, Sao Paulo. Catalejo Project. Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, Bogota. ArtRio 2011. Pier Mauá, Rio de Janeiro. Seven Women, Seven Stories. Arteamericas, Miami. On the Territory: Contemporary Art in Colombia. Santralistanbul Museum, Istanbul. On the Territory: Contemporary Art in Colombia. Cermodern, Ankara. Attempts for a Perfect World. Banco de la Republica Museum, Bogota. RE Discovering Akiyoshidai. Akiyoshidai International Art Village. Yamaguchi, Japan. 2010 Puntos suspensivos. Mexico City Museum, Mexico DF. Trans Fronteiras Contemporaneas. Galeria Marta Traba, Sao Paulo. Artbo 2010. LA Galería, Bogota. Fictions and Fantasies. El Museo Gallery, Bogota. I would rather do it. Los Andes University’s Project Room, Bogota. Artistic Residencies. Galería Santa Fé, Bogota. 2009 Los Impolíticos. PAN Palazzo delle Arti, Naples. Artbo 2009. LA Galería, Bogota. La Otra 2009. Galería Toulouse, Bogota. Asimetrías y Convergencias. Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo. Borderless Generation. Korea Cultural Center, Seoul. In Situ. Galería Cuarto Nivel, Bogota. Regreso, arte latinoamericano y memoria. Palacio Linares, Casa de América. Madrid. 2008 ArtBo 2008. Dabbah-Torrejón Gallery, LA Galería, Corferias, Bogota. Arwi 2008, LA Galería, San Juan de Puerto Rico. FU2008. Festival urbano, Hotel Nueva Granada, Bogota. Raw Symbiosis / animals-nature-culture, Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Manif d’art de Québec. Espace GM 840, Québec, Canada. FEMACO 2008. Dabbah-Torrejón Gallery, Banamex Center. México D.F. Synchronies. Merrill Lynch Arteamericas, Miami. 2007 Bridge Art Fair. Toulouse Gallery, Miami. Multiplication. Cu4rto Nivel Gallery, Bogotá. Coctail. Dabbah-Torrejón Gallery, Buenos Aires. Sincronías. Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art. Buenos Aires. ArteBA 2007. Dabbah-Torrejón Gallery, Buenos Aires. Platform. LA Gallery, Bogotá.
Artistic Residencies RHA Avolon Global Studio, Dublin (2016). Kooshk Artist Residency, Tehran (2016). Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, USA (2013). FONCA-Ministry of Culture of Colombia, Mexico
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City (2012) Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan (2011). Nordic Artists’ Centre Dalsasen, Dale, Norway (2011). Galeria Vermelho. Sao Paulo, Brazil (2009).
Awards and Fellowships Production Grant. Ministry of Culture of Colombia, 2016. Kooshk Artist Residency Award, Tehran, 2016. Shortlisted to the Aesthetica Art Prize. York, 2016. PHD Studies Schollarship, UNAM, Mexico City, 2014. Nominated by NC Arte Foundation to the Future Generation Art Prize. Pinchuk Fountation, Kiev, 2014. Nominated to the Sara Modiano Prize. Bogota, 2013. Residency Fellowship recipient: Fonca-Ministry of Culture of Colombia, 2012. Trans 2011 Fellowship. 2011 Akiyoshidai International Art Village, 2011. Shortlisted for CIFO Young Artists´ Program 2011. Cisneros Art Foundation, Miami, 2010. Invited to the Biennale Manif d’art de Québec. Québec, 2008. Young Artists’ program grant of the Alliance Française, Bogotá, 2006. Exhibition grant. Cultural Institute of Bogota. 2006 Exhibition grant. Cultural Institute of Bogota. 2005. Kent Explores Prize, Bogotá (May 2003 - April 2004). Jorge Tadeo Lozano Award. Faculty of Fine Arts (Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, Bogotá). Academic Excellency Scholarship 1999-2002. Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, Bogota.
Lectures and Teaching 2014 Visiting Lecturer. Visual Arts Undergraduate Program: Javeriana University and Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, Bogota. 2013 Visiting Lecturer. Visual Arts Undergraduate Program: Javeriana University and Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, Bogota. Artist Talk. Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, Bogota. 2012 Workshop. Border, Mexico City. Workshop. Fundación Teatro Odeón, Bogota. 2010 Graduation Project Juror. LaSalle College of Art and Design, Bogota, Colombia. Lecturer, Undergraduate Program in Visual Arts. National University, Bogota, Colombia. 2009 Visiting Lecturer. Visual Arts undergraduate program, Javeriana University, Bogota. Speaker at Madrid Abierto Debate Sessions. Casa Encendida, Madrid. 2007 Artist Talk. Master of Arts program, IUNA, Buenos Aires Artist Talk. Master in Fine Arts program, National University, Bogota, Colombia.
Selected Press and Publications Inside a Pause: Adriana Salazar, article on Artillery Magazine. Author: Joanna Roche. January 2016. Conceptos de arte contemporáneo. NC Arte. December 2014. The Art of Tinkering. Authors: Karen Wilkinson and Mike Petrich. January 2014. The Ultimate Taboo. Article on Vision Magazine China, 2013. Hiperallergic.com. Review on the California-Pacific Triennial, 2013. On Fragments Beauty is Also Born. Article on Diners Magazine, 2012 Artforum, Critic’s Picks. Group Show Review. December 2011. On the Territory: Contemporary Art in Colombia. Group Exhibition Catalogue. March 2011. Ustedes, Nosotros, Jóvenes Artistas Latinoamericanos. Author: Luisa Fuentes, 2011. Los Impoliticos. Group Exhibition Catalogue. PAN Palazzo delle Arti, Naples, December 2009. Borderless Generation. Group Exhibition Catalogue. Korea Cultural Center, Seoul, June 2009. Regreso. Group Exhibition Catalogue. Casa de America, Madrid, February 2009. Doing it myself. Solo exhibition catalogue. November 2008 Vida Salvaje. Press release. Art Nexus, March 2008. Synchronies. Group exhibition catalogue. September 2007 Medida. Solo exhibition catalogue. September 2006 Cohabite, IX Bogotá Art Biennale. Group exhibition catalogue. December 2007 3
Artecámara 2006. Group exhibition catalogue. November 2006 All that shines is not art. Group exhibition catalogue. November 2005 Animalandia. Group exhibition catalogue. September 2003.
Other Projects
2006-2013: present: Creator, owner, fashion designer and project developer of the independent design store La Ropería, Bogota. 2003: Member of the curating team. "First International Show of Local Art”. Virgilio Barco Library, Bogota, Colombia.
Work in Public Collections MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico; Banco de la Republica Museum of Art, Bogota; UCR ArtsBlock, Riverside.
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