Miguel Ángel Rojas (born 1946,

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) is a conceptual art and filmmaker. His work includes drawing, painting, photography, installations and video and is often related to contexts expanding on issues of sexuality, urban culture, systems of violence, substance abuse, and economic inequalities. He has been working as a photographer, painter and architect since the 1970s.

Artistic career

Education

Miguel Ángel Rojas completed his studies in painting at the School of Fine Arts at the

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and in architecture at the University Javeriana.

Exhibitions

His work has been shown individually and collectively since 1972 in several countries around Latin, Central and North America, as well as Europe and Asia, such as the United States, Colombia, Venezuela, Australia, Puerto Rico, Cuba, United States, Japan, Brazil, England, Mexico, among others. In 2024, Ángel Rojas's work was included in the 60th Venice Biennale's central exhibition ''Foreigners Everywhere'', curated by Adriano Pedrosa. In his

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debut, he exhibited the pieces ''El Negro'' (1979) and ''El Emperador'' (1973–1980) commenting on queer intimacy through a cinematic approach. Miguel Ángel Rojas is featured in ''The Days That Build Us'' (2024-2025), a group exhibition centered on films and organized by PAMMTV, the video streaming platform, at

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. Rojas's Caqueta (2007) was shown alongside moving image artworks by Deborah Jack,

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, Dara Friedman, and

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Awards

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."

Exhibition History

Solo exhibitions

* 2021 ''Regreso a la Maloca'',

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, Bogota, Colombia (Curated by Eugenio Viola) * 2012 ''Camino Corto (Short Way)'', Art Museum of the

, Bogota, Colombia * 2012 ''El nuevo Dorado (The New Dorado)'', 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 * 2007 ''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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, Bogota, Colombia * 2001 ''Sub'', Valenzuela Gallery – Klenner, Bogota, Colombia * 2000 ''La Cama de Piedra (The Stone Bed)'', French Alliance, Bogota, Colombia * 1995 ''Pascal y Pascual (Pascal and Pascual)'', Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico * 1992 ''Debug y Pintura (Drawing and Painting)'', Artery Gallery,

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, Colombia * 1991 ''Bio'',

, Bogota, Colombia * 1990 ''Miguel Ángel Rojas'', Cartagena Museum of Modern Art,

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* 1990 ''Miguel Ángel Rojas obra en process (Miguel Angel Rojas work in process)'', Medellin Museum of Modern Art, 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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, New York, New York * 1980 ''Grain'', Bogota Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia Group exhibitions * 2024 ''The Days That Build Us'', PAMMTV,

, Florida * 2024 ''Nucleo Contemporano'', 60th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy * 2012 ''La idea de América Latina (The idea of Latin America)'', Andalusian Centre of Contemporary Art of Seville, Seville, Spain * 2012 ''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. * 2010 ''Multiple Landscape: Latin America in the MUSAC Collection'', MUSAC, Spain. * 2010 ''Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art'',

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, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas * 2010 ''A cidade do homem nu'',

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, Sao Paulo, Brazil * 2010 ''Al calor del pensamiento (To the heat of thought)'', Daros Collection at Bank Santander Foundation, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain * 2008 ''Opening – Colombia'',

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, Houston, Texas * 2005 ''Fotográfica Bogotá (Fotographic Bogota)'', Bogota, Colombia * 2004 ''Cantos Cuentos Colombianos (Colombian Song Tales)'', Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland * 2004 ''39 Artists National Salon'', Bogota, Colombia * 2003 ''Colombia 2003'',

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, Buenos Aires, Argentina * 2003 ''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'',

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(current PAMM), 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 * 1997 ''Premio Marco 96'',

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Mexico * 1996 ''Art, Political and Religion'', Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom * 1996 ''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 * 1996 ''Latin America 96 in the Fine Arts Museum'',

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, Buenos Aires, Argentina * 1996 ''V Biennial of Bogota'',

, Bogota, Colombia * 1996 ''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 * 1995 ''A Propósito de Colombia (Apropos Colombia)'', Kulturhaus Lateinamerika, Cologne, Germany, Marco Prize,

, Monterrey, Mexico * 1994 V ''

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'', Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba * 1993 ''Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century'', Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), New York * 1992 ''Echo Art'',

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, Brazil * 1992 Joan Miro Sculpture Prize, Miro Centre, Barcelona, Spain * 1992 ''Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century'', Plaza de Armas, Seville, Spain * 1992 ''Colombian Contemporary Art'', Expo Seville 92, Seville, Spain * 1992 ''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'',

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, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico * 1990 ''Bogota Art Biennial'', Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia * 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 Anos de Arte na Colombia'', Imperial Palace, Rio of Janiero, Brazil * 1986 IV Biennial American of Graphic Arts, Museum The Social Gathering, California * 1986 II Havana Biennial, Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba * 1983 World Print Four, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California * 1982 4th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia * 1982 Muñoz-Astudillo-Rojas-Ramírez, Museum The Social gathering, Cali, Colombia * 1981 Graphic arts Panamericanas, Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, New York * 1981 ''4th Biennial of Art of Medellín'', Palace of Exhibitions, Medellín, Colombia * 1981 ''16th Sao Paulo Biennial'', Sao Paulo, Brazil * 1979 ''11th Biennial International of Recorded'', Tokyo, Japan * 1979 ''Il Trienal Latin American of Recorded'', Arts Centre and Communication, Buenos Aires, Argentina * 1979 ''IV Biennial Latin America of Graphic Arts'', San Juan, Puerto Rico * 1979 ''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 * 1977 ''The Novisimos Colombian'', Museum of Art Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela * 1976 ''III Biennial Latin American of Graphic Arts'', San Juan, Puerto Rico

Collections (selection)

, Florida *

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, New York, New York *

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, San Francisco, California *

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, Illinois *

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, Texas * La Caixa Foundation, Barcelona Spain * Luis Angel Arango Library of the Republic Bank, Bogota, Colombia * Daros Latin America Collection, Zurich, Switzerland *

, Bogota, Colombia * National University Museum of Art, Bogota, Colombia * House of the Americas, Havana, Cuba *

Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura The Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL, ), located in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, is the Mexican institution in charge of coordinating artistic and cultural activities (both at the political and the educati ...

, 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 *

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, 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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