Bogotá, Colombia
SANTIAGO CASTRO PULIDO
b.1987 (Nemocón, Colombia)
Santiago Castro Pulido’s practice connects painting with the complex dynamics of public space. His works emerge from investigations into the interstices of the contemporary city: globalization, symbolic disputes, identity, and the instability of images.
Drawing from his extensive background in urban art, Castro transforms the pulse of the city into visual metaphors that oscillate between abstraction and figuration, permanence and fragmentation.
JOSÉ ROSERO NAVARRETE
b.1988 (Pasto, Colombia)
¿What becomes of human spaces once they cease to be inhabited—when they are simply abandoned and left to their own fate? This appears to be the central inquiry defining much of José Rosero’s artistic practice. Such a question unfolds into broader reflections on the uncontrolled expansion of cities, the return of nature through its forms and textures, and the profound mirage constructed by human vanity.
Rosero is an exquisite and meticulous painter whose extensive journeys around the world inform a body of work that reveals both remarkable technical precision and an extraordinary capacity for improvisation. This process allows him to begin with fragments of reality that gradually transform into fantastical scenarios—visions emerging from imagination itself and from the decisions made intuitively, stroke after stroke.
PEZ BARCELONA
b.1976 (Barcelona, España)
Pez Barcelona is perhaps one of the most significant global figures to emerge from the generation of Catalan urban artists that arose in the late 1990s. The creation of his iconic smiling fish became the catalyst for the central pursuit of his artistic practice: the language of happiness.
Despite the unspeakable circumstances that often surround contemporary reality, Pez Barcelona has persistently upheld a clear and compelling message—both through his work in the streets and across the many successful exhibitions he has presented around the world: life is ultimately constructed through fleeting moments of joy.
His work acknowledges the complexity and turbulence of everyday existence, yet insists on the possibility of interruption—an instant of clarity, light, and color capable of transforming perception, much like the luminous energy that defines each of his creations.
GIOVANNI PAOLO RANDAZZO
b.1975 (Bogotá, Colombia)
Giovanni Paolo Randazzo’s artistic practice spans painting, installation, photography, and video, exploring the intersections between art, science, and technology.
For more than two decades, his collaborative projects have addressed urgent global concerns including climate change, biodiversity loss, forced displacement, and the social implications of technological systems.
His work understands art not merely as personal expression, but as a shared space for inquiry and dialogue.
LAURA MORA OSORIO
b.1992 (Bogotá, Colombia)
Drawn to the complexities of perception, Laura Mora Osorio investigates physical and neurological phenomena as constructs that shape the way we see, think, and experience the world. Chromatic spectrums, articulated through diverse forms and textures, become a vehicle for exploring light, form, sensation, contemplation, and self-representation — transforming perception into both object of study and method of inquiry. Her rigorous investigation into the brain's perceptual conditions situates her practice at the intersection of art and scientific exploration. The resulting works operate as experimental studies in color that put to the test the very senses and mechanisms through which we interpret them, destabilizing material certainty and revealing the multiplicity of subjective realities.
LARRY MUÑOZ
b.1982 (Fusagasuga, Colombia)
Larry Muñoz (b. 1982, Colombia) lives and works in Bogotá. He studied Advertising at the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, and his artistic practice critically examines the complex relationships human beings have constructed with what we call nature. His work has been profoundly shaped by his participation in international residencies — experiences that have enriched both his conceptual approach and his material experimentation. His solo exhibitions include Chosen Nightmare (Bogotá, 2025), Graceful, Elegant, Beasts (Istanbul, 2025), After the Fire (Bogotá, 2019), Eclipse (Bogotá, 2018), The Eternal Newness of the World (Buenos Aires, 2018), Late Epiphany (Bogotá, 2017), and Secrets of Invisibility(São Paulo, 2016). He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions across Turkey, the United States, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, and Finland between 2012 and 2024. Beyond his studio practice, Muñoz has curated significant projects including Plural Nodo Cultural (Bogotá, 2019) and Monstruo (Bogotá, 2024), reflecting his commitment to the artistic community and his investment in fostering collaborative cultural initiatives.
CAROLINA ARÉVALO
b.1992 (Bogotá, Colombia)
Carolina Arévalo develops a practice centered on self-referential concerns. Her work interrogates concepts of identity, memory, and trace, employing her own body as both instrument and creative territory. Through photography, audiovisual media, and performance, she materializes propositions that move between intimate experience and broader cultural narratives. Her work has been presented at institutions of considerable standing, among them the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO), the Centro Cultural Gabriel García Márquez of the Colombian Embassy in Spain, the Museo Leopoldo Rother, and the Filmoteca de Valencia, among others. Across these contexts, her work draws audiences into immersive and reflective experiences that articulate the personal with the collective. She has been the recipient of significant grants, including IDARTES fellowships Fotografiando el Centro (2022) and Otros Mundos Posibles (2020), distinctions that recognize her capacity to develop projects that expand the boundaries of contemporary photographic and performative practice. Most recently, her exhibition Manchas en la memoria (Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, 2026) addressed the social silence surrounding child sexual violence — a work that exemplifies her commitment to mobilizing art as a space for confronting collective denial.
MATEO SÁNCHEZ
b.1992 (Bogotá, Colombia)
His work as a painter constitutes a profound inquiry into memory understood as an experience traversed by body and space. His point of departure is the photographic archive — both familial and found. Within his practice, the problems of painting unfold in the act of looking, conceived simultaneously as craft and as a device for the construction of images that inhabit a constant tension between past and present. In that temporal interstice, observation becomes a methodology of research that interrogates what lies beyond the edges of the photograph.
He is driven by a desire to understand how painting might become a form of image archaeology — a practice that excavates deeply emotional visual territories and materialities. From this perspective, his work insists on painting as a long-breath craft, attentive to the weight of the gaze and to the narratives it is capable of summoning.
Among his distinctions: second place in the painting category of the Festival de la Colombianidad (Tocancipá, Cundinamarca, 2022); first place at the 12th Salón de Arte Joven of Club El Nogal with the series Retratos inesperados(Bogotá, 2023); and first place at the Premio de Pintura Josefina de Bakker with the work Tía Adriana, from that same series, awarded in Quito, Ecuador, in 2024.
GABRIEL HERNÁNDEZ
b.1993 (Bogotá, Colombia)
José Gabriel Hernández Serrato is a visual artist and cultural manager with extensive experience in artistic creation, pedagogy, and the management of cultural projects within the public sector. His work brings together plastic exploration, archival research, and collaborative learning. He is the recipient of the Premio Departamental de Fotografía de Cundinamarca (2019) and has participated in exhibitions, art fairs, and residencies across Bogotá, Madrid, Tokyo, and New York. He has also led nationally significant cultural initiatives, including CORAZONARTE 2020 and 2021, and has been involved with the Programa Nacional de Estímulos of the Ministerio de Cultura, Jóvenes por el Cambio, and the Programa Nacional de Concertación Cultural.
Hernández Serrato holds a Master's degree in Artistic Creation from the Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, completed in 2024 with a thesis evaluated by a jury of specialists. He also holds a degree as Maestro en Artes Plásticas from the Universidad El Bosque, where he graduated in 2018. His secondary education included a technical baccalaureate in pattern-making at the Escuela Tecnológica Instituto Técnico Central (2005–2010), and he further complemented his training with a diploma in Photography and Digital Image from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 2019.
JULIÁN RL
b.1982 (Bogotá, Colombia)
Trained as an architect and specialist in Photography at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and holding a Master's degree in Artistic Production and Creation from the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), his decade-long career is defined by an ongoing inquiry into time, space, and memory. From these concepts, he constructs a laboratory of material intervention, through the hybridization of diverse artistic languages — among them manipulated photography, installation, and video art. He is the recipient of multiple awards from Idartes and the FUGA, including the photography prize Imaginarios del Bronx (2019), Creación de videoarte para Domo (2020), and the VII Bienal de Artes Plásticas(2024).
