This is a list of Colombian artists. Colombian art has 3,500 years of history and covers a wide range of media and styles ranging from Quimbaya gold craftwork and Spanish Baroque devotional painting to modern Colombian cinema and conceptual art movements.
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Julio Abril
Julio Vicente Agapito Abril Mayorga (20 August 1911 – 24 April 1979) was a Colombian sculptor, painter, and draughtsman.
Biography
Beginnings in the arts
Julio Abril was born in Moniquirá on 20 August 1911. He studied in 1928 at the Sale ...
, sculptor and painter
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Olga de Amaral (born 1932), textile artist
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Débora Arango (1907–2005), painter
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Rodrigo Arenas Betancourt (1919–1995), sculptor
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Fernando Botero
Fernando Botero Angulo (19 April 1932 – 15 September 2023) was a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor. His signature style, also known as "Boterismo", depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political ...
(1932–2023), painter and sculptor
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Antonio Caro, painter and mixed media artist
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Gregorio Vasquez de Arce y Ceballos
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Olga de Chica (1921–2016), Primitivist painter
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Juan Fernando Cobo painter and sculptor
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Antonio Acero de la Cruz (c. 1600–1668), painter and poet
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Claudia Cuesta, installation artist
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Danilo Dueñas (born 1956), painter
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Juan Manuel Echavarría (born 1947), video and photography
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Jesús María Espinosa (1908–1995), painter
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Miguel de la Espriella (born 1947), painter and sculptor
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Pedro José Figueroa, portrait painter
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Alberto Gómez Gómez, muralist, painter and printmaker
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Miguel Gómez, photographer
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Pedro Nel Gómez, muralist
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Beatriz Gonzalez, painter and sculptor
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Nadia Granados (born 1978), performance artist
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Enrique Grau, painter
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Manuel Hernández Gómez (1928–2014), abstract painter
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Édgar Francisco Jiménez (born 1951), painter
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Mario Londoño
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Germán Londoño
Germán Londoño (born October 12, 1961, in Medellín, Colombia), is a Colombian painter, draftsman and sculptor. He studied in the Libe de Zulátegui Arts Academy in Medellín, Colombia and as a Master in Lithography at the Scuola Internazionale ...
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LeDania
Diana Ordóñez (born 1987), known professionally as LEDANIA, is a Colombian multimedia artist based in Bogotá. Known mostly for her graffiti murals, LeDania also works in photography, graphic design, advertising, artistic makeup, and decorative ...
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Sandra Llano-Mejía
Sandra Isabel Llano-Mejía (born 1951) is a Colombian multimedia artist. She is considered "a pioneer of video art in Latin America". In the 1970s and 1980s, Llano-Mejía's video art was shown throughout Mexico and the United States. She has an in ...
(born 1951), multimedia artist, video artist
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Adriana Marmorek
Adriana Marmorek (born 1969) is a Colombian artist, exploring themes of desire through photography, video, installation and sculpture.
Marmorek has shown her work in Colombia, the United States, Argentina, Italy and Belgium, and some of her wor ...
(born 1969), multimedia artist
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Santiago Martínez Delgado
Santiago Martínez Delgado (1906–1954) was a Colombian painter, sculptor, art historian and writer. He established a reputation as a prominent muralist during the 1940s and is also known for his watercolors, oil paintings, illustrations and ...
(1906–1954), muralist, sculptor, art historian
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Leo Matiz
Leonet Matiz Espinoza (April 1, 1917 – October 24, 1998) was a Colombian photographer, caricaturist, newspaper publisher, painter and gallery owner.
Early life
Matiz was born in the small village of Aracataca in the Magdalena Department of Co ...
(1917–1998), photographer
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Oscar Murillo
Oscar Murillo (born 1986) is a Colombian artist working within the painting tradition. He currently lives and works in various locations.
Curator and writer Legacy Russell has said that the artist explores "the body in transit", while curator H ...
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Sara Modiano (1951–2010), multimedia artist
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Édgar Negret (1920–2012), painter
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Alonso Neira Martinez, sculptor
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Alejandro Obregón
Alejandro Jesús Obregón Rosės (4 June 1920 – 11 April 1992) was a Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver.
Biography
Obregón was born in Barcelona, Spain. He was the son of a Colombian father and a Catalan mother. The Obreg ...
(1920–1992), painter
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Mario Opazo, video and performance artist
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Nadín Ospina, artist
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Gloria Ortiz-Hernandez (born 1943), artist
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Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar
Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar (27 August 1922 – 24 August 2004) was a Colombian painter and Sculpture, sculptor. He is considered a pioneer of Abstract art, abstract, Minimalism (visual arts), minimalist, and Constructivism (art), Constructivist a ...
(1923–2004), painter and sculptor
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Omar Rayo
Omar Rayo Reyes (January 20, 1928 – June 7, 2010) was a renowned Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist. He won the 1970 Salón de Artistas Colombianos. Rayo worked with abstract geometry primarily employing black, white ...
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Pedro Restrepo (1920–2012), painter, historian
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Ruby Rumié
Ruby Rumié (born 1958) is a Colombian artist. She studied at the School of Fine Arts of Cartagena de Indias and the David Manzur Academy in Bogotá. She has exhibited around the world in places such as Colombia, Chile, the United States of Americ ...
(born 1958), contemporary artist
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Pedro Ruiz (born 1957), painter and conceptual artist
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Doris Salcedo
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(born 1958), conceptual artist
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Andrés de Santa Maria (1860–1945), painter
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Viviana Spinosa contemporary artist
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Federico Uribe, mixed media artist
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Samuel Vásquez, artist
See also
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List of Colombian musicians
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List of Colombian writers
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List of Colombian women artists
References
External links
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– Web Directory of Artists and Cultural institutions from ColombiaColombian Artists (Painters and Plastic Artists) and Current Art Events in ColombiaLatin American Art from Colombia
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