Ximena Velásquez Sánchez

Cumbitara - Colombia

As a visual artist and researcher, my interests are focused on the images that are formed at the limits or borders between different media. I am interested in photochemical crossings with digital languages and how the image transforms its discourse from its own materiality. My recurring themes deal with the feminine world and the form of landscape as an experience. I have been working on these themes from different critical and aesthetic positions, through installation proposals involving video, photography and objects.

I am a founding member of the collective Patasola (Juan Alonso and Yomayra Puentes Rivera), which since 2015, we have been making the video art festival Videograma, which has three versions and has been presented in different cities of Colombia, and in other festivals such as OVER THE REAL, 2023 and METACINEMA, 2020 in Italy.

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STUDIES

PhD in Visual Arts, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil. August 2018 - March 2023

Master in Visual Arts, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. August 2006 - September 2008

Specialization in History and Theory of Modern and Contemporary Art, Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia. February 2006 - May 2007

Bachelor's in Fine Arts, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano. Bogota, Colombia July 1998 - February 2002.

MENTIONS AND AWARDS

2023 Creation grant for the III version of the International Video Art Festival Videograma - Centro de Investigación y Creación CIC Facultad de Artes y Humanidades - Call for professors of Cátedra 2023, awarded to Juan Alonso, representing the Patasola collective.

2021 Creation grant for artists with trajectory, Ministry of Culture Colombia

2021 Programming grant in visual arts RED GALERÍA SANTA FE. Estamos Patasola Collective, project Videograma International Video Art Festival, 2nd edition.

2017 International Circulation Grant Ministry of Culture. Colombia

2017 International Circulation Grant, IDARTES, Colombia.

2012 Work Grant, IDARTES Institute of Arts, for the project for individual exhibition Espacio Art Nexus, Colombia.

2010 Work Grant, Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño. Colectivo Estamos en Obra, Sala Alterna, Galería Santa Fe, project El Viejo Mundo.

2010 “Miradas sobre el paisaje” (Views on the Landscape), selected project for one of the Research-Creation Laboratories for Boyacá, by the Ministry of Culture. Ximena Velásquez / Alexandra McCormick. Exhibitions held in Tunja and Villa de Leyva.

2003 Dollar Grant awarded by Colectivo Nadie Opina for the project Made in Boston, Bogotá – Colombia. Ximena Velásquez / Alexandra McCormick.

2003 II Award, XI National Painting Contest, Banco Ganadero.

2001 First Award, Local Young Artists Contest, Candelaria District, Instituto Distrital de Cultura y Turismo.

2000 Scholarship for academic excellence. Jorge Tadeo Lozano University.

1999 II Award, Photography Contest – Contemporary Dance, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano.

Artistic Residencies

Cerveira Biennial Foundation - PortugalOctober 2017 residency, Tempo Saudoso project.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2022. Virtual exhibition of the works Las tres Vigilias and De natureza informe, in VII seminario de pesquisa em artes, Cultura e Linguagens da UFJ, Brazil.

2019. Speaker at the X International Congress on the image, in Manchester, Metropolitan University, with the paper "The attraction of the non-visible and the distant".

2019. Speaker at a seminar on Visual Culture at the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, with the paper: Vicissitudes of the family album.

2016. Speaker at the International Seminar on Interdisciplinarity in the Arts, Universidad del Quindío. with the paper: Experiment with a bird in an air pump.

PUBLICATIONS

Article: Cuadernos de Música, Artes Visuales y Artes Escénicas (MAVAE). Volume.19 Number. 1 "Actions and reactions of current art in the face of racialization and racism" January-June 2024, Article: "Picturesque and anthropometric photography: an instrument of colonial domination and expansion in the Brazilian context and its decolonization through the work of Rosana Paulino".

Doi 10.11144/javeriana.mavae19-1.farp. Available online: January 1, 2024. https://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/cma/article/view/38320

Book: Border Stories, Videogram - International Art Festival 2023. Editors: Colectivo Patasola Juan Carlos Alonso Rico, Ximena Velásquez Sánchez, Yomayra Puentes-Rivera. Authors: Enrico Mandirola, Adriana García Galán, Juan Camilo González. ISBN: 978-628-01-5354-4

Book: ARTIFICIAL LANDSCAPES, Videogram - International Art Festival 2021. Editors: Colectivo Patasola Juan Carlos Alonso Rico, Ximena Velásquez Sánchez, Yomayra Puentes-Rivera. Authors: Mauricio Duran, Claudia Salamanca, Cecilia Traslaviña, Diego Pieñeros García, Adriana Rojas Espitia. ISBN: 978-958-49-4694-2 https://www.videogramafestival.com/bookinenglish

Article: Word, thought and work. Indexed journal Faculty of Arts, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. Article: "El nacimiento del Dios Salvaje" Date of publication: August 15, 2013. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17227/2011804X.9PPO6.13 http://revistas.pedagogica.edu.co/index.php/revistafba/article/view/1933

Book: Views on the Landscape. Book of postcards. Edited by Colectivo Estamos en Obra, Bogotá 2010. Result of the Creation Research Laboratory, funded by the Ministry of Culture held in Tunja, Duitama and Villa de Leyva.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 Landscape is not what we see, it is what we feel. Art Nexus Space. Winner project of the IDARTES job fair.

2011 Landscape is not what we see, it is what we feel. Project Room Universidad de los Andes Bogotá - Colombia. March 22, 2011

2011 The Old World. Sala Alterna - Santa Fe Gallery. Winner project of the 2010 call.

2005 Contravía. Universidad de los Andes Exhibition Hall. Project Room. Estamos en Obra Collective.

2002 Camera obscura. Alley of exhibitions, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Theater, Gas Natural. Bogotá.

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

2023. On Americanity & Other Experiences of Belonging. Curated by Analys Álvarez Hernández and Colette Laliberté. Onsite Gallery - Toronto, Canada.

2022. Encounters: yearnings of observation and listening. Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation. Work: Agua fuerte. Bogota, Colombia

2022. Sixth version of the Manizales International Art Festival, September 19 to 23. Work: Meditaciones.

2022. Exposição dos alunos do programa de Pós - Graduação. GAIA, Unicamp, Brazil, 2022. Work: Três irmãos.

2021. SLAM - Latin American Symposium of Media Art. Work: Meditations.

2021. XIX version of the International Exhibition of pinhole photography An image for culture, Bogota Colombia.

2021. Virtual exhibition of works in VII seminario de pesquisa em artes, Cultura e Linguagens da UFJ, Brasil.

2021. XIX version of the International Pinhole Photography Exhibition Una imagen por la cultua, Bogota.

2019. Disassemblies (devices as pests). Curated by Erika Martínez. ARTBO/SALAS, Bogotá June 28.

2018. Prismas Leilão de Parede. SUBSOLO Art Laboratory. Campinas, Brazil.

2018. VIII Biennial of teachers. Department of Arts Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogota Exhibition Hall Gerardo Arango Building. Amber Project with Camilo Sabogal.

2018. ASONANTES, Meditations, Patasola Collective (Juan Carlos Alonso and Ximena Velásquez) Casa Bolivar, Bogotá - Colombia.

2018. FILMARE DARIEN community film festival, San Francisco Acandí, Chocó - Colombia.

2017. XIX International Art Biennial of Cerveira. July 15 - September 16. Obra Saudade, Villa Nova de Cerveira - Spain.

2017. FIAC, International Art Festival of Manizales, Colombia.

2017. Cannon shots of piracy. Centro Colombo Americano and Department of Arts Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá.

2016. Lumens, Meeting of alternative chemical photography. Neebex Gallery, Bogota - Colombia

2016. Biennial of professors Department of Arts Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá.

2015. Salón de Arte Joven, FUGA 2015.

2015. Flashes From Colombia. Contemporary Artists from Colombia. Imago Mundi. Luciano Benetton Collection. Venice - Italy.

2015. Métodos y prácticas del Performance Vol 1, Neebex Gallery. Bogota, Col

2014. Regional Image 8, Banco de la República, Cloister of San Agustín, Tunja.

2013. VI Biennial of professors of the Department of Arts. Javeriana University. -LIA Space (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for the Arts). April 2013. Bogotá Colombia.

2013. Entwine. Valenzuela Klenner Gallery. Bogota Colombia. June 2013.

2012. ARTBO International Art Fair of Bogota - Art Chamber Pavilion.

2012. Chic Format 3. Más Arte Contemporáneo Gallery.

2012 International Day of Pinhole Photography Exhibition. Leopoldo Carpinteyro Gallery. Monterrey Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

2012 International pinhole photography exhibition - Pinhole photography project "El Huequito". Tzikbal Cultural Center. Mexico City.

2012 Iberoamerican. 3rd Edition, Iberoamerican photography contest. Cultural Center of Spain. La Paz -Bolivia.

2011 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil. Sao Paulo, Brazil.

2011 Catalejo. First exhibition of graduates Jorge Tadeo Lozano University. UJTL Art Museum. Bogotá, Colombia.

2010 Chik Format. Cero Gallery - Bogota, Colombia.

2010 First meeting of Portable Art. Ephemeral exhibition - Billares Londres, Bogotá Col.

2009 Portable Series. Corferias Museum. Expociencia Expotécnologia 09 ACAC. Bogota, Colombia.

2008 1st Colsanitas Youth Art Contest. University of Salamanca Cultural Center. Bogota, Colombia.

2008 Certain Things, Certain Things. Repertoire of Manias. LADO B Art Consultants. Bogotá, Colombia.

2008 Uniandino Award for the Arts. Espacio Alterno Gallery, Uniandinos headquarters. Bogotá, Colombia.

2008 And how does love go? Santa Fe Gallery. Bogota, Colombia.

2006 New Names, Place not Place. Luis Angel Arango Library. Bogotá, Colombia.

2006 Urban Trajectories. Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation. Bogotá, Colombia.

2004 Cityexposiciones. Bogotá, Colombia.

2003 XI National Salon of Young Artists - Santa Fe Gallery. Bogota, Colombia.

2003 Casos de Casa - FENALCO Gallery. Bogota, Colombia.

2003 X Regional Salon of Young Artists - Zona 7 - Bucaramanga, Colombia.

2003 XI National Painting Contest Banco Ganadero. Virgilio Barco Library, Bogota, Colombia.

2001 Medidas Naturales, Contemporary outdoor art. Botanical Garden of Bogota, Colombia.

2001 Transgressions. Jorge Tadeo Lozano University Bogotá, Colombia.

2001 IV Local Salons of Plastic Arts - IDCT Bogotá, Colombia.

2001 1st National Encounter of Young Art - University of Caldas. Manizales, Colombia.

2000 II Biennial, Colombian Photography Salon - Medellin, Colombia.

ARTISTIC PROJECTS

2015 to date Member of Colectivo Patasola, creators of VIDEOGRAMA, International Festival of videarte.

2006. LA PROCESIÓN VA POR DENTRO Dir. José Domingo Garzón: Grupo pirámide. NATIONAL PRIZE OF CREATION. Curatorship and staging Colombia 2004, Guadalajara - Mexico 2006, Dominican Republic 2006.

2004. CONTRAVÍA, project realized between Lima, Peru, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Santiago de Chile and Arica in Chile: August 2004. With the collective Estamos en Obra.

2003. ENTRADA LIBRE Collective (Juan Carlos Ocampo, Alexandra McCormick, Adriana Salazar, Laura Duque and Ximena Velásquez) Convened and organized the 1st International Local Art Salon. Virgilio Barco Library. Bogota - Colombia.