Javier Vanegas
1984
Bogotá, Colombia
Bogotá, Colombia
12 Works exhibited on Kooness
Represented by
Casa Zirio
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Works by Javier Vanegas
—A yogi who through perfect meditation has merged his consciousness with the Creator perceives the cosmic essence as light; for him there is no difference between the rays of light that make up water and the rays of light that make up the earth. Free from material consciousness, free from the three dimensions of space and the fourth dimension of time, a master transfers his body of light with equal ease over the rays of light of earth, water, fire or air. Prolonged concentration on the liberating spiritual eye enables the yogi to destroy all illusions relating to matter and its gravitational weight; from that moment on he sees the universe essentially as an undifferentiated mass of light. — (Yogananda)
Born in Bogotá (1984), Javier Vanegas studied Fine Arts at the University of the Andes, and completed a Master's in Research in Art and Creation at the Complutense University of Madrid with a full scholarship awarded by the Carolina Foundation in 2017. In 2019 he began his doctoral thesis "Research on the digital image in the Kogui community of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta" PhD in Fine Arts UCM research line photography. He made his first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá MAMBO, with his degree project "Postmodern Portrait", which obtained the recognition of a meritorious thesis. In 2014 he exhibited at MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome within the framework of the Italian Photography Festival with his work entitled AMPO and in 2016 he participated in the PhotoEspaña festival in the collective exhibition Fotografía Trasversal. Within the framework of the same festival in 2018 he made the solo exhibition Tempus Fugit, Madrid. His photography project titled EXTINTO was presented at the Galería El Museo in Bogotá 2019 and later participated in Fotográfica Bogotá 2019 with the Galería LA.
In 2017 he received the “Scholarship for Colombians in the process of artistic and cultural training abroad” from the Ministry of Culture. Among the recognitions that his artistic work has had, the following stand out: the Prize of the 6th Two-Dimensional Art Salon awarded by the Gilberto Álzate Avendaño Foundation, the Uniandinos Arts Award, IV version, and the honorable mention of the Fernando Botero Award. In 2017 he obtained the Red Galería Santa Fe Scholarship , continuous programming category, director of the Third University Photography Salon. He has participated in the publication of books such as Tarjeta De Memoria / Memory Card , essays on contemporary photography in Colombia. He also published in the books Los sueños de la Razón and Revela Colombia 2011 published by the Ministry of Culture.
He is currently a professor in the professional photography course offered by the Faculty of Arts at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University . He worked as a professor in the Department of Arts at the Universidad de los Andes where he taught the subjects of Experimental Photography and Basic Photography , and was also in charge of the Advanced Photography subject at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana . Since 2012 he is a member of the Si Nos Pagan Boys Collective, an independent self-management initiative. He is the Director and co-creator of the Salón Universitario de Fotografía, a platform for the dissemination and visualization of photographic proposals that arise in the field of higher education in Colombia.
Additionally, he has participated in the international biennials of Asunción Paraguay and Curitiba Brazil . He has exhibited his work at fairs in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, London, Miami, Lima, Caracas, Madrid, New York and Bogotá. In May 2021, he was invited by the Austrian embassy in Vienna to represent Colombia in the exhibition " New Ibero-American Photography" and the same year he was invited by the Israeli embassy in Telavid to represent Colombia at the Photo: Israel International Photography Festival with his VIP project.
In 2023, he received the National Photography Award granted by the Ministry of Culture for his career and dedication to photography. His visual work questions the paragon of the photographic device and questions the colonized gaze in today's performance society based on the understanding and recognition of the ancestral knowledge of indigenous peoples.
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.
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