ColArte - well organized, comprehensive, hundreds of artists (of all types) and thousands of images. An excellent resource. Note: After selecting an artist using "search by last name," be sure to use the drop-down theme and category menus to see all available images.
Points of Departure in Contemporary Colombian Art - an exhibition sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank. Bilingual and includes brief biographies, historical context and representative works. A good choice for an overview of four important artists: Enrique Grau (died April 2004), Edgar Negret, Alejandro Obregón and Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar.
The links below will take you to the "home page" for each artist in the collection of the Banco de Republica. You will find at least several works plus biographical information in Spanish. If you want a larger sample of their work, look them up in the ColArte database.
Fernando Botero, born in Colombia in 1932, belongs among the few major artists of the post-World War II era to have consistently worked in a figurative style. His distinctive figures - rotund and swollen to monumental proportions - articulate both his profound consciousness of artistic tradition and a gently satirical observation of his fellow human beings. Botero, who maintains studios in New York, Paris, and Tuscany, assimilates historical and contemporary influences with rare artistic skill to produce images that synthesize, in a deceptively simple manner, his experiences of Latin American and Western cultures. Botero's subject matter, wide-ranging and deeply rooted in his South American heritage, includes portraits, bordello scenes, bullfights, landscapes, and still lifes.
 Donacion Botero - 118 high quality imagesKara Art - Botero - 18 images and extensive background informationAna Mercedes Hoyos is one of the most outstanding figures in present-day Colombian art. In 1978 she won first prize in the 23rd Colombian National Salon of Visual Arts with her work Atmosphere and was invited to participate in the show Latin America: Sensitive Geometry in the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro. She has held solo exhibitions in Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Caracas, New York, Tokyo, Santiago (Chile), Los Angeles, Mexico City and Monterrey. She has participated in group exhibitions all over the world and has represented Colombia in international ones. Her work, with commentaries by well-known critics, has been featured in four previous books and in magazines like Art News, Newsweek, Time and Art in America. She is currently based in Bogotá and New York and is working on bronze and iron-plate sculpture projects in Mexico City and Monterrey.
Villegas Editores - Retrospectiva, hundreds of photos (start with the six at top or menu on right)Galeria Acquavella - Caracas gallery with a few works in each medium. Images can be enlarged. Doris Salcedo was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1958. She received her BFA from the Universidad de Bogota Jorge Tadeo Lozano (1980) and a MFA in sculpture from New York University (1984). Salcedo received a grant from the Penny McCall Foundation in 1993, and a Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Grant in 1995. Salcedo's work has been seen in solo and group exhibitions around the world, including in Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Australia, and throughout the United States and Europe. Salcedo currently lives and works in Bogotá.
Alexander and Bonin - Salcedo - New York gallery with a couple of works and a biography |