Javier Vanegas

EDUCATION San Bartolome de la Merced School, Bogota, 2002 University of the Andes, Bogotá, Master of Fine Arts, meritorious degree project 2002-2007 Complutense University of Madrid, Master in Art and Creation Research, MIAC. Full scholarship awarded by the Carolina Foundation 2017-2019 PhD student in Fine Arts, Complutense University of Madrid, photography research line. “Digital imaging in the Kogui community of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta”. 2019-2024 SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2024 VIP, What you see, Is what you don't get. Casa Zirio Gallery, Bogotá 2023 IALUNA 2.0 National Museum, exhibition within the framework of the celebration of the 2023 National Awards. Bogotá 2023 MAT Museum of Art of Tolima, Tolima Photography Hall, IALUNA 2.0, Ibagué 2023 IALUNA 2.0 The return of the jaguar in the digital age. LA Galería, Bogotá 2023 VIP Gallery Twelve Zero Zero 2021 Photo:ISRAEL International photography festival, representation of Colombia, special invitation from the embassy in Israel, Tel Avid 2019 Photographic Bogotá, Tempus Fugit Evanescent Ruin, LA Gallery 2019 Extinct, El Museo Bogota Gallery 2018 Tempus Fugit, Photo Spain, Madrid 2017 Individual project “Ecos” within the framework of the Curitiba Biennial, Brazil. 2017 Wüin, El Museo Gallery, Bogotá 2014 AMPO Gallery the Museum, Bogotá 2013 Human Tra(m)p , El Museo Gallery, Space 2. Photographic installation, Bogotá 2013 Human Tra(m)p, Colombo Americano, Photographic installation, Pereira, 2012 VIP Gallery at the Espacio2 Museum, photography technique, Bogotá 2010 “Anachronistic” El Garaje Gallery, experimental photography technique, Bogota 2009 “Anatomical Supports”, Anatomical Supports, photography technique, Bogotá 2007 Fotologia 5, MAMBO Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá, “Postmodern Portrait”, Bogotá COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS 2023 Ordering the gaze, Casa Zirio, Bogotá 2023 Us_Others, Curated by Caridad Botella, LA Gallery 2023 Arcot, Bogotá. 2023 La Rueda Rueda Auction, Gran Hayat Hotel, Bogotá. 2023 SoyArte, Franciscan Foundation, Bogotá and Cali 2023 Third Ready for the Photo Festival, Santiago de Tolú 2023 Two Hundred Years of Photography and Fashion. National Museum, Bogotá 2023 Caribbean Realism, Gabriel García Márquez Cultural Center, Bogotá 2023 Art Auction Naval Museum and Convention Center, Cartagena 2023 Self-portrait identities, El Museo Gallery 2023 It's a love story, Uniandinos Alternate Space Gallery. 2022 La Rueda Rueda Auction, Gran Hayat Hotel 2022 Barranquilla Photography Week, Bolivarian Bibliographic Museum, traveling exhibition, Barranquilla. 2022 Art Gallery Ministry of Culture of the Government of Slovakia, Photography Month, Bratislava 2021 New Ibero-American Photography, invitation from the embassy in Austria, Instituto Cervantes Vienna, Austria 2021 Playtime Auction, La Cometa Gallery, Bogotá 2021 14 Gunshots, Colour Senes project, Miami 2019 La Matina Auction, La Cometa Gallery. Bogotá 2019 IV Young Art Salon Gilberto Álzate Avendaño Foundation, Bogotá 2019 Colsanitas Young Art Salon, Nueveochenta Gallery, Bogotá 2019 Supports and Substrates in the Photographic Image. Galileo Cultural Center. Madrid 2019 Nine Artists, La Factoría. Madrid 2018 Be Part Auction Christie's, New York 2018 The Memory of Water, La Salle University, Bogotá 2018 Eleven Conditions, Faculty of Fine Arts, Complutense University of Madrid 2018 The-Photo-Graphic, El Museo Gallery, Bogotá 2017 Be Part Chirtie´s Auction, Cuatrecasas space, Madrid 2017 El Museo Gallery 30 years, Bogotá 2017 23rd Curitiba Biennial, Paranaense Museum, Brazil 2017 XI Heroes Art Auction, Matamoros Corporation, El Nogal Club. Bogotá 2016 Be Part Auction Chirtie's, New York 2016 Translocations: images of a new photographic era, El Museo Gallery, Bogotá 2016 PhotoEspaña, Cross-sectional Photography, Luis Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid Spain 2015 Transversal Photography, El Museo Gallery, Bogotá 2015 Dialogues with the collection, MAMBO Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá, Bogotá. 2015 The new abstraction, Espacio Artnexus within the framework of the ARTBO fair, Bogotá 2014 Rome Photography Festival, MACRO exhibition Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy. 2014 A Brave New World, curated by María Elvira Ardila, Espacio Alterno gallery, Bogotá 2013 6th Two-Dimensional Art Salon, Gilberto Álzate Avendaño, photography on glass technique, Bogotá 2013 6th Colsanitas Young Art Salon, Nueveochenta Gallery, photography on wood, Bogotá 2013 7th Young Art Salon, El Nogal Club, photography technique, Bogotá 2013 MELGARTE Art of Strolling, MAMBO Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá, installation technique, Bogotá 2013 Joint Young Latino Artist, Mexic- Art museum, Austin Texas, USA 2012 MANIMAL, The Warehouse Art Gallery, ambrotype technique, Bogotá 2012 Substrates, LA Gallery, joint exhibition with Juan Carlos Delgado, photography, Bogotá 2012 Elegy to Jaime Molina. LA Galería, curated by SinospaganBoys, photography Bogotá 2011 VI Young Art Salon, El Nogal Club, photography technique, Bogotá 2011 Contemporary Ibero-American Photography, El Museo Gallery, photography technique, Bogotá 2011 Memory Card, MAMBO Bogota Museum of Art, UJTL, Bogota 2011 Human Eco, Space Womb Gallery, photography technique, New York 2010 Biodiversity Exhibition, University of the Andes, photography technique Bogotá 2010 Video exhibition Bicentennial of Colombian art, MAMBO Museum of Art of Bogotá, video. 2009 Photographic Bogotá III, Gabriel García Márquez Cultural Center, Photography and video technique, Bogotá. 2008 IV Fernando Botero Prize Salon.. Honorable Mention, Young Artists Foundation, Bogotá 2007 Young Art Salon “Works for eternal youth”, MAMBO Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá TEACHING Professor of contemporary photography at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, 2020-2024 Professor of Photography, University of Tolima, 2020-2022 Professor at the University of Nebrija Madrid, teaching a photography diploma course at the international artistic residence, Mobility format within the framework of doctoral research at UCM. Residency dates 04/27/2019 – 06/27/2019 Professor of Cartographies and Mirrors, Buenaventura and Sincelejo module, Ministry of Culture and the Arteria Foundation. 2019 Professor of Cartographies and Mirrors, photography module Leticia and Popayán, Ministry of Culture and the Arteria Foundation. 2018 Professor of artistic photography, Photographic Image Production Technology, Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, 2013-201 Professor of Experimental Photography, University of the Andes 2015-2017 Professor of Advanced Photography, Pontifical Javeriana University, 2015-2016 Professor of artistic photography, Faculty of Fine Arts, Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, 2014-2017 Professor of basic photography and experimental photography at the Guerrero Academy of Arts, 2009 - 2011 Photography teacher at San Bartolomé de la Merced School 2008-2010 CULTURAL MANAGEMENT 2017 Third University Photography Exhibition, Odeón Space 2016 Translocations: Images of a New Photographic Era, El Museo Gallery, Bogotá 2016 Second University Photography Salon, Gilberto Álzate Avendaño, Bogotá 2015 Transversal Photography, Collective exhibition of Latin American photography, El Museo Gallery 2015 First University Photography Salon, Odeon Cultural Space 2014 Regional laboratories, Ministry of Culture ¨Death goes on vacation¨ 2013 Melgart – art of passage, MAMBO Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá 2013 Where the Sailor Commands, the Captain Does Not, Bogotá Chamber of Commerce. 2012 Manimal, Waterhouse Gallery, Bogota 2011 Elegy to Jaime Molina, LA Galeria DISTINCTIONS 2023 National Photography Award 2023 awarded by the Ministry of Culture. 2017 Full scholarship from the Carolina Foundation, Master in Research, Art and Creation. Complutense University of Madrid 2017 Scholarships for Colombians in the process of artistic and cultural training abroad. Ministry of Culture of Colombia, Master's Degree in Art and Technical Photography, Polytechnic University of Valencia. (Scholarship rejected by the beneficiary) 2017 IED European Master of Contemporary Photography Scholarship, (European Master of Contemporary Photography) 2017 Red Galería Santa Fe Scholarship, continuous programming category, Third University Photography Salon. 2016 Santa Fe Gallery Network Scholarship, continuous programming category, Second University Photography Salon. 2014 Rome Photography Festival, MACRO exhibition Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy. 2013 Two-Dimensional Art Salon Award, Gilberto álzate Avendaño Foundation, work Ampo 2013 Honorable Mention 7th Young Art Salon, El Nogal Club, VIP Klimt work, photography technique. 2009 Honorable Mention, Sin Formato Award 2009, Ministry of Culture, work Postmodern Portrait, Bogotá 2008 IV Fernando Botero Prize Hall. Honorable mention. Work Anatomies in Change, Teaching Faculty, Bogotá 2007 Meritorious degree project, Postmodern Photo Frame, University of the Andes. Bogotá 2006 First Prize, IV Uniandina Arts Award, work Fish Footprint, Espacio Alterno Gallery, Bogotá. 2003 Second Place, Third Artist Competition, International Congress of Medicine, Hotel Dann Carlton, Bogotá PUBLICATION IN BOOKS Memory Card / Memory Card, Essays on contemporary photography in Colombia. Dreams of Reason, South American Photography, Santiago de Chile publication Colombia 2011, a book published by the Ministry of Culture 2011 32 views of the inhabitants of Bogotá, Photography: publication made in 2015 BIENNIALS 2017 23rd Curitiba Biennial, Paranaense Museum, Brazil 2017 Second Biennial of Asuncion, Paraguay. 2015 Asuncion Biennial, Cry of Freedom, Space of Being. Paraguay 2015 Curitiba Biennial, Secretary of State for Culture, Brazil JURY 2023 Bogotá City Photography Award, IDCP 2023 Photography Award the center of a Ruderal Landscape, FUGA, Bogotá 2023 IV FUGA Young Art Salon Award, award phase, Bogotá 2023 Creation Scholarship for artists with an intermediate career – Southern Region, Ministry of Culture 2023 Art Stimuli by Cota, Youth Secretary. 2022 IV FUGA Young Art Salon Award, pre-selection phase, Bogotá 2022 Photography Award, Looking at the Center, Gilberto Álzate Avendaño Foundation, Bogotá 2022 Laboratories in ancient photography techniques, Ministry of Culture Stimulus Program 2022 Youth in Movement, Ministry of Culture 2022 Municipal Portfolio of Incentives Cota is Culture, Municipal Mayor's Office of Cota 2021 Bogotá Postal Award, Gilberto Álzate Avendaño Foundation, Bogotá 2021 Compensar Young Art Award 2021 Market Squares, Gilberto Álzate Avendaño Foundation, Bogotá. 2019 Internships in workshops on ancient photography techniques. Ministry of Culture. 2019 Bronx Photography Award Scholarship. Gilberto Álzate Avendaño Foundation, Bogotá 2017 Heritage Scholarship, Bogotá City Photography Award. 2017 Experimental Photography Laboratory Scholarship - Gilberto Álzate Avendaño Foundation, Bogotá 2015 Student Scholarships, Retrospective Study Visit Doris Salcedo Chicago, Ministry of Culture. RESIDENCES 2019 Conspirators of Pleasure, Place of Doubt, partial scholarship (June-July), Cali, Colombia 2019 Nebrija Creatives in Residence, Nebrija University, (March, April, May) Madrid, Spain COLLECTIONS: Panopticon of Ibagué. Ball Installation MELGART, Collective If They Pay Us Boys Gilberto Álzate Avendaño, work Ampo, photograph developed on glass (Wet Collodion) Andrés Bello Agreement, work. “Nipple” from the Index series of photographs with fire. American Colombo of Pereira, Human Tra(m)p CONFERENCE 2022 Santa Fe Gallery, Construction exercises for the Anthropocene, Lucas Gallego and Javier Vanegas.. Bogotá 2022 Vernacular photography in the performance society, Bolivarian Bibliographic Museum, Barranquilla. 2021 Conference title: The image burns in Colombia. Seminar on the Photographic Act organized by the Ministry of Culture 2020 Conference title: Evanescent Image, doctoral research. Photography specialization National University of Colombia 2020 Conference title: Synthetic image in the era of accelerationism, University of Tolima. 2019 Conference title: Image Photography in the Age of Accelerationism, Auditorium, Nebrija University. Madrid. 2019 Conference title: “The death of photography as a material image in the cemetery” VIII International Photography Meeting. Fotográfica Bogotá 2019. Bogotá 2018 Conference of Colombian Artists Living in Madrid, Caro y Cuervo Institute, Retiro Library, Madrid. 2015 Photography Conference, French Alliance Barranquilla 2013 TEDx Villa Campestre, speaker, Barranquilla. 2010 Conference on Photographic Perspectives, Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, library chamber. Bogotá FAIRS 2024 Art Wynwood, Miami 2024 Quipo, Mexico City 2023 Quipo, Mexico City 2021 Barranquilla Million Fair 2019 PINTA Gallery LA Gallery, Miami 2019 ARTBO, LA Gallery Gallery 2019 Million Dollar Fair, Bogotá 2019 Sp- Arte, São Paulo International Art Fair, El Museo Gallery 2018 Sp- Arte, São Paulo International Art Fair, El Museo Gallery 2017 Art Lima, EL Museo Gallery 2016 Caribbean Fair, Barranquilla 2016 ARTLIMA, The Museum Gallery 2016 ARTMEDELLÍN, Tax Haven, Medellín 2016 MILLION FAIR, Bogotá 2016 ARTMEDELLÍN, Tax Haven, Medellín 2015 ARTBO, El Museo Gallery, Bogotá 2015 ART BASEL MIAMI The New Abstraction II, Artnexus . Miami 2015 Sp- Arte, São Paulo International Art Fair, El Museo Gallery, 2015 ARTLIMA, The Museum Gallery. 2014 PINTA, London, The Museum Gallery. 2014 Sp- Arte, São Paulo International Art Fair, El Museo Gallery, 2014 ARTLIMA, The Museum Gallery. 2014 JUSTMAD, The Museum Gallery 2013 ARTBO, El Museo Gallery, Bogotá 2013 PHOTO LIMA, El Museo Gallery, Peru 2013 FIA, El Museo Gallery, Caracas 2013 ART LIMA, El Museo Gallery, Peru 2013 SP-ARTE Art Fair São Paulo Brazil 2012 ARTBO, El Museo Gallery, Bogotá 2012 JUST MIAMI Contemporary Art Fair, El Museo Gallery, Miami 2012 ODEON Contemporary Art Fair, Espacio 2 Gallery, Bogotá 2012 ODEON Contemporary Art Fair, The Warehouse Art Gallery, Bogotá 2012 ARTRIO Contemporary Art Fair of Rio de Janeiro, El Museo Gallery, Brazil 2011 ODEON Contemporary Art Fair, The Warehouse Art Gallery, Bogotá Others: 2023 Re-Looking at History in a Forgetful Society. National Library of Colombia, Bogotá. 2015 Workshop “Photography as an artistic practice - Specific site” Santa Marta, Regional Rooms No. 15 2015 Experimental photography workshop. Odeón Cultural Space 2013 Pecha Kucha No10, presentation of the collective Si Nos Pagan Boys, University of the Andes. 2012 Photography workshop in Valledupar Cesar within the framework of regional incentives from the Ministry of Culture. 2008 National Geographic December edition, “Print it, live it again Kodak” contest, “Children of Colombia” photography publication.