Liliana Angulo Cortés

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Liliana Angulo Cortés
Born
Astrid Liliana Angulo Cortés[1]

1974
Bogotá, Colombia
Occupation(s)Visual Artist, Activist, Professor

Astrid Liliana Angulo Cortés (born 1974 in Bogotá) is a Colombian visual artist with a degree in sculpture from the National University of Colombia, an MFA from the University of Illinois (Chicago) and a Master’s in Anthropology from the University of Los Andes (Colombia).[2] Through her artistic practice, she uses the lens of gender, race and identity to explore representations of the black woman in contemporary culture.[3]

Biography[edit]

Angulo Cortés been inclined toward art education ever since she began her secondary studies. As a Professor of Studio Arts and a practicing artist, Angulo Cortés has researched and reflected for over 20 years on the Afro-descendant experience, as well as the lack of debate surrounding the images and stereotypes that have been built around Afro-descendant identity.[4]

Career[edit]

Liliana Angulo Cortés has concurrently developed her work as a visual artist, her work as a teacher and also as an advocate for memory and art from the Afro-Colombian community.[5] From 2004 to 2007, she worked as a teacher at the National University of Colombia, and at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá. She worked as a visual and plastic arts consultant for various cultural foundations. In 2014, she held the position of Secretary of Culture, Recreation and Sports for the city of Bogotá.[6] In 2015, she founded the Afro-Colombian artist collective Agua Turbia.[7] Currently, Liliana Angulo Cortés is the Deputy Director of the Arts of the District Institute of the Arts for Bogotá.[8] She has organized several curatorial endeavors and given numerous lectures at artistic institutions both nationally and internationally.[9][10][11]

Artistic work[edit]

Angulo Cortés has spent time locating files on the resistance, reparation and the presence of the Afro-descendant population in Colombia in order to account for the power dynamics surrounding the image, territory, race and body of black women.[3] In doing so, she has developed a systematic reflection regarding the tensions arising from the intersection of gender and race in Colombian society.[12]

Liliana Angulo Cortés also uses the relationship with others as a collective exercise that opens up a space of performative power linked to the care of oneself and the community. The collective experience as a labor of rewriting memory.[13]

Exhibitions[edit]

Solo exhibitions[edit]

  • 14 May to 8 June, 2018 - Observing Whiteness. CSRPC at the University of Chicago.[14]
  • 2009 - Black Presence/Presencia Negra. Gorecki Gallery St John, San Benedict University of Minnesota, USA[2][12]
  • 2007 - Négritude. Alianza Colombo Francesa de Bogotá, Colombia.[15]
  • 2003 - Mancha negra. Valenzuela y Klenner arte contemporáneo. Bogotá, Colombia.[16]
  • 2000 - Un negro es un negro. Photo exhibit Exposición fotográfica. Instituto municipal para el arte y la cultura. IMAC, Durango, México.[17]

Group exhibitions[edit]

  • May 2019 - Museo 360, ¿qué pasó aquí? Antioquia Museum, Medellín, Colombia[18]
  • 4 November to 22 December, 2017 - Identidad. Résidence croisée France-Colombie Liliana Angulo — Mariangela Aponte Nuñez — Guillaume Chauvin. La Chambre, exhibition and studio space. Strasbourg, France.[19][20]
  • November 2008 to January 2009 - Cali es Cali. 41 Salón Nacional de Artistas de Colombia Santiago de Cali, Colombia.[17]
  • November 2006 to January 2007 - Mambo Negrita. IX Bienal del Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia.[21]
  • July – August, 2006 - Viaje sin mapa, imagen y representación afro en el arte contemporáneo colombiano. Casa de Moneda, Bogotá, Colombia.[12][22]
  • 2005 - ¿Se acabó el rollo? Historia de la fotografía en Colombia de 1950-2000. Museo Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "ASTRID LILIANA ANGULO CORTES - FUNDACION GILBERTO ALZATE AVENDAÑO - SIGEP - Función Pública".
  2. ^ a b "Prototeca - Astrid Liliana Angulo Cortés". www.prototeca.com. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Astrid Liliana Angulo Cortés". C& AMÉRICA LATINA. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Astrid Liliana Angulo Cortés". C& AMÉRICA LATINA. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  5. ^ "45sna". 45sna. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  6. ^ "función publica".
  7. ^ República, Subgerencia Cultural del Banco de la. "La Red Cultural del Banco de la República". www.banrepcultural.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  8. ^ "Resolución del instituto distrital firmado por Liliana Angulo Cortés" (PDF).
  9. ^ "Liliana Angulo Cortés - Collaborators - Independent Curators International". curatorsintl.org. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  10. ^ Welt, Haus der Kulturen der (9 October 2019). "Contributors: Liliana Angulo Cortés". HKW. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  11. ^ www.bibliopolis.com. "Y EL AMOR... ¿CÓMO VA?; Coordinación y Curadoría: Liliana Angulo Cortés, Pascale Molinier, Mara Viveros Vigoya on Howard Karno Books, Inc". Howard Karno Books, Inc. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  12. ^ a b c "Retratos en Blanco y Afro". Issuu. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  13. ^ "LAURA ANDERSON BARBATA Y ASTRID LILIANA ANGULO CORTÉS SOBRE ARTE Y ACTIVISMOS". Artishock Revista (in Spanish). 11 September 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  14. ^ Tran, Chrysanthemum. "Poetics and Performance in the Diaspora: A Conversation and Workshop... Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture". The University of Chicago. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  15. ^ "Prototeca". www.prototeca.com. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  16. ^ "Instituto Municipal del Arte y la Cultura de Durango (IMAC)". Secretaría de Cultura/Sistema de Información Cultural (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  17. ^ a b "Catálogo del 41 Salón Nacional de Artistas". Issuu. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  18. ^ Arcadia, Revista (6 May 2019). "Museo 360, ¿qué pasó aquí?". Museo 360, ¿qué pasó aquí? (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  19. ^ "Informe final de la temporada Colombia en Francia 2017" (PDF).
  20. ^ "Comunicado de Prensa de la exposición "Identidad"" (PDF).
  21. ^ "UNIMEDIOS UN Periódico". historico.unperiodico.unal.edu.co. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  22. ^ "Guía de estudio núm. 37. Viaje sin mapa: representaciones afro en el arte contemporáneo colombiano :: Guías de estudio - BanRepcultural". babel.banrepcultural.org. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
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