''Miguel Ángel Rojas'' is a Colombian

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ist born in

Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...

in 1946. His work includes drawing, painting, photography, installations and video and is often related to the sexuality, the marginal culture, the violence and problems involved with drug consumption and production.

Artistic career

Rojas is a photographer, painter and architect. He finished his studies in painting at the Fine arts school of the

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and in architecture at the University Javeriana. His work has been shown individually and collectively since 1972 in Colombia, Venezuela, Australia, Puerto Rico, Cuba, EE.UU., Japan, Brazil, England and Mexico. His work has been awarded first prize in photography of the XXXII Salon of Colombian Artists in 1989; The II International Biennial of San Juan Prize 1979; León Dobrzinsky Prize 1981; Prize of the XXX Salon of Colombian Artists 1986 in

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with special notation of the V American Biennial of graphic arts 1988 in

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; Prize of the Riogrande national Contest 1989."Diccionario de Colombia.

Exhibitions

Individual exhibitions * 2021 ** "Regreso a la Maloca", Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá
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Curated by Eugenio Viola. Bogotá. Colombia * 2012 ** "Camino Corto" (Short Way), "Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia" (Art Museum of the National University of Colombia), Bogota, Colombia ** "El nuevo Dorado" (The new Dorado), Project invited to a Solo Project, ARCH: international Fair of Contemporary Art. Madrid, Spain * 2011 ** "At the Edge of Scarcity", Sicardi Gallery,

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, Texas * 2009 ** "Pueblito" (Little Town). Museum Bolivariano of Contemporary Art. Santa Marta, Colombia * 2008 ** Fotofest 2008, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas * 2007 ** "Objetivo-Subjetivo" (Objective-Subjective), Museum of Art of the Bank of the Republic, Bogota, Colombia ** "David", La vitrina, Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia * 2006 ** Fotofest 2006, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas * 2002 ** "La Cama de Piedra (The Stone Bed),

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, Mexico City, Mexico * 1992 ** "Debug y Pintura" (Drawing and Painting), Artery Gallery,

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, Colombia * 1991 ** Bio,

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, Bogota, Colombia * 1990 ** "Miguel Angel Rojas", Cartagena Museum of Modern Art,

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** "Miguel Angel Rojas obra en process" (Miguel Angel Rojas work in process), Medellin Museum of Modern Art, Medellín, Colombia * 1985 ** Bio, INTAR (International Arts Relations, Inc.), New York, New York * 1982 ** "Subjetivo" (Subjective), Gallery Garcés-Velásquez, Bogota, Colombia * 1981 ** Works on Paper,

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(former Center of Inter-American Relations), New York, New York 1980 Grain, Bogota Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia Collective exhibitions * 2012 ** "La idea de América Latina" (The idea of Latin America), Andalusian Centre of Contemporary Art of Seville, Seville, Spain. ** "Perder la forma humana. Una imagen sísmica de los años 80 latinoamericanos" (To lose the human form. A seismic image of the years 80 of Latin America),

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, Madrid, Spain. * 2010 ** 29th

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, “There is always to cup of sea to sail in”,

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, Brazil. ** Multiple Landscape: Latin America in the MUSAC Collection, MUSAC (Museum of Contemporary Art of Castile and Leon), Spain. ** Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art,

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, Sicardi Gallery, Houston Texas ** "A cidade do homem nu",

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, Sao Paulo, Brazil ** "Al calor del pensamiento" (To the heat of thought), Daros Collection at Bank Santander Foundation, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain. * 2008 ** Opening – Colombia, Station Museum, Houston Texas * 2005 ** "Fotográfica Bogotá" (Fotographic Bogota), Bogota, Colombia. * 2004 ** "Cantos Cuentos Colombianos" (Colombian Song Tales), Daros Latinamerica Collection, Zurich, Switzerland ** 39 Artists National Salon, Bogota, Colombia * 2003 ** Colombia 2003,

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, Buenos Aires, Argentina ** The American Effect,

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, New York, New York * 2002 ** VIII Biennial of Bogota,

, Bogota, Colombia * 2001 ** "Colombia Visible e Invisible" (Visible and Invisible Colombia), Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain. * 1999 ** "Re-Aligning Vision", Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida * 1998 ** "Re-Aligning Vision", Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Texas University, Austin, Texas;

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, Caracas, Venezuela;

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, Monterrey, Mexico * 1997 ** "Re-Aligning Vision", Museo del Barrio, New York; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas ** Premio Marco 96,

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Mexico * 1996 ** Art, Political and Religion, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom ** "Realismo Mágico? Arte Figurativo de Los Años Noventas en Colombia" (Magic realism? Figurative Art of the 90s in Colombia), Galerie Théoremes, Brussels, Belgium; Melina Mercury Cultural Center, Athens, Greece; University of Essex & Aberysmith, United Kingdom ** Latin America 96 in the Fine arts Museum,

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, Buenos Aires, Argentina. ** V Biennial of Bogota,

, Bogota, Colombia ** Marco Prize 95,

, Monterrey, Mexico * 1995 ** "Arte, Política y Religión" (Art, Politics and Religion), Mead Gallery, Warwick Art Centre,

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, United Kingdom ** "A Propósito de Colombia" (Apropos Colombia), Kulturhaus Lateinamerika, Cologne, Germany, Marco Prize,

, Monterrey, Mexico * 1994 ** V Biennial of La Habana, Museum of Fine arts, Havana, Cuba * 1993 ** Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century,

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, New York, New York * 1992 ** Echo Art, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ** Joan Miro Sculpture Prize, Miro Centre, Barcelona, Spain. ** Latin American artists of the 20th century, Plaza de Armas, Seville, Spain. ** Colombian Contemporary art, Expo Seville 92, Seville, Spain ** America Latins Art Contemporain, Hotel give Arts, Foundation National give Arts, Paris, France Echo Art, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil * 1991 ** Myth and Magic in America, The Eighty, Museum Marco, Monterrey, Mexico * 1990 ** Images of Silence, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico ** Bogota Art Biennial, Museum of Modern Art, Bogota * 1989 ** Images of Silence, Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington, D.C. * 1987 ** A Body Marginal, Center for Photography, Paddington, Australia * 1986 ** Cem Anus of Art em Colombia, Imperial Palace, Rio of Janiero, Brazil ** IV Biennial American of Graphic Arts, Museum The Social gathering, California ** Il Biennial of The Habana, Museum of Fine arts, Havana, Cuba * 1983 ** World Print Four, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California * 1982 ** IV Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia ** Muñoz-Astudillo-Rojas-Ramírez, Museum The Social gathering, Cali, Colombia * 1981 ** Graphic arts Panamericanas, Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, New York ** IV Biennial of Art of Medellín, Palace of Exhibitions, Medellín, Colombia ** XVI Biennial of Sao Paulo, Palace of Exhibitions, Sao Paulo, Brazil * 1979 ** XI Biennial International of Recorded, Tokyo, Japan. ** Il Trienal Latin American of Recorded, Arts centre and Communication, Buenos Aires, Argentina ** IV Biennial Latin America of Graphic Arts, San Juan, Puerto Rico ** I Biennial International of Painting, Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Cuenca, Ecuador * 1977 ** The Plastic Colombian of This Century, House of The Americas, Havana, Cuba ** The Novisimos Colombian, Museum of Art Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela * 1976 ** III Biennial Latin American of Graphic Arts, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Collections

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(MoMA), New York, New York * La Caixa Foundation, Barcelona Spain * Luis Angel Arango Library of the Republic Bank, Bogota, Colombia * Daros Latin America Collection, Zurich, Switzerland. *

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, Mexico DF, Mexico * MUSAC, Museum of Contemporary Art of Castile and Leon, Spain. *

, Caracas, Venezuela. * Museum of American Art of Managua, Managua, Nicaragua. *

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, Monterrey, Mexico *

, Bogota, Colombia *

La Tertulia Museum La Tertulia Museum, formerly known as the Museum of Modern Art La Tertulia, is an art museum in Cali, Colombia. It has an important collection of American and especially Colombian art. The museum consists of three buildings: a main gallery with 30 ...

, Cali, Colombia * Museum of Modern Art, Bucaramanga, Colombia * "Colección de la Rectoria de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia" , Bogota, Colombia * Collection Embassy of Colombia in Spain, Madrid, Spain. * Museum of Modern Art, Barranquilla, Colombia * Embassy of France, Bogota, Colombia * Museum of Modern Art, Cartagena, Colombia

References

External links

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