Education

Academic Background

• PhD Candidate Heritage, culture and society. University of Barcelona – Spain. 2022
• Master in Cultural Management. University of Barcelona – Spain. 2005
• Specialization in Cultural Management. University of Rosario – Bogota, Colombia. 2003
• Batchelor Degree in Fine Arts. Universidad de los Andes – Bogotá, Colombia. 1997     
• Time Arts Time Arts (university exchange). The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA. 1995
• Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. Design and Scenography. Rome, Italy. 1986

Courses, Workshops and Seminars

Selection

• The image in the digital age-Multinational Workshop . Mexico – Online. 2015
• Pulsión and artistic production. Multinational Workshop. Mexico – Online. 2013
• Science, art and biology seminar. Multinational Workshop. Mexico – Online. 2012
• Seminar on visual material preservation. Banco de la República & ArtNexus Foundation. Bogotá – Colombia. 2011
• Seminar Meeting of Cultural Managers. University of Rosario. Bogotá – Colombia. 2009
• Creative Education-invited by the British Council. Edinburgh-Scotland. 2005
• International Chair. Russian Icons-Luis Angel Arango. Bogotá – Colombia. 2003
• Preventive Conservation in Museums. National Museum. Bogotá – Colombia. 2002
• International Art-Architecture Chair. Ministry of Culture. Bogotá – Colombia. 2002
• Seminar for the curatorship of exhibitions. Ministry of Culture. Bogotá – Colombia. 1999
• Seminar Cultural Marketing-New trends and models. Rosario University. Bogotá – Colombia. 1999
• Preventive Conservation in Museums Seminar. National Museum. Bogotá – Colombia.  1999
• Special Chair in Art, City and Culture. Superior School of Arts, Bogotá-Colombia. 1998  Seminar Critical analysis of video creation. University of the Andes. Bogotá-Colombia. 1994
• First International Chair of Art. Luis Angel Arango Library. Bogotá  – Colombia. 1991
• Engraving and intaglio printing. Atelier "TRACCE", Rome – Italy. 1986 – 1988
• Italian and History of Italian Art. Dante Alighieri Society. Rome – Italy. 1985 – 1987
• Photographic techniques. School of Javier Sandoval. Bogotá – Colombia. 1985
• Drawing and painting. David Manzur's Academy, Bogotá – Colombia. 1983 – 1985

Work experience

Independent consultant,  February 2020 – present

Cultural Management

• Independent curator for exhibitions
• Mentor for emerging artist
• Art acquisition consultant

Cultural Management

Association of Alumni of the University of the Andes – Uniandinos Art & Culture Director, February 2002 – February 2020

• Co-created the Cultural Center of Uniandinos, originating the Cultural Direction within the Association
• Designed and built the cultural guidelines of the Institution
• Managed more than 2000 cultural contents establishing a permanent agenda with an average of 80-100 cultural events per year.
• Structured the management processes by generating management guidelines, which allowed the efficiency and effectiveness of the results.
• Generated a permanent cultural programming scheme including all artistic areas: plastic and visual arts, music, theatre and dance, music, cultural management, history and literature.
• Made institutional strategic alliances with: Uniandes and other universities, art galleries, museums, Film Festivals, Cultural Centers and personalities of art and culture at national and international level.
• Developed audience building strategies resulting in an average attendance of 3000 registered people per year.
• Produced an average of 50 exhibitions in the Espacio Alterno Gallery belonging to the Association, curating some of them.
• Developed inter-institutional agreements with the Alma Mater and with several high level academic and cultural entities.
• Promoted the academic program that accompanied each of the exhibitions of the Espacio Alterno Gallery, generating a didactic program for each of the exhibitions, consolidating a program of social inclusion with foundations of vulnerable groups, generating social participation through art.
• Promoted cultural events in digital and print media in the cultural and social sections in mass media such as: El Tiempo Newspaper, Espectador, ARTERIA Newspaper, Caras Magazine; among others.
• Organized cultural events with representatives of different Embassies and international organizations accredited to the Government of the Republic of Colombia, working together with the Association of Ibero-American Cultural Attachés. Embassies of: Canada, Egypt, Spain, Chile, Honduras, Guatemala, Eastern Republic of Uruguay, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru, Turkey, Italy, among others.
• Supported national art and literature contests and competitions with a representative participation of artists, helping emerging artists and generating a great impact of the Institution’s participation in the community, which today are intangible heritage of the Association.

Superior Academy of Art of Bogota – A.S.A.B. Showroom Manager, January 1998-2000

Responsible for the direction of the Academy’s Exhibition Halls and individual and collective exhibitions. Responsible for the programming of events within the framework of each of the exhibitions.

• Carried out 20 collective and individual exhibitions with national and international artists, with an educational program that enhanced the exhibitions.
• Managed strategic inter-institutional alliances with other academic and cultural entities.
• Promoted bilateral international cultural exchanges with Canada (Centre for Interactive Arts-Le Meduse-Quebec) and the Mexican Embassy (Exhibition of Chucatecan painters).
• Initiated alternative exhibition spaces in that Institution with the cooperation of the French Embassy and its Andre Maurois Documentary Center, such as the activation of the reference library as an exhibition space.
• Designed a program of academic interaction to the processes of the Exhibition Hall, achieving a direct participation of the students with the management of the exhibitions.
• Generated permanent assistants for the exhibitions, through strategic alliances with the IDCT and a program for the creation of art guides.

Colturarte, 1994 – 2023

• Co-creator and founder of this start up dedicated to the management and interdisciplinary production of art and design.
• Exchange and commercialization of artistic and handicraft products at national and international level.
• Support in the gestation of artistic and cultural projects.
• Research for artistic topics in the area of visual arts.
• Consulting for the acquisition of works of art.
• Consultancy and events for the management of art and culture.

Teaching experience

• University of Rosario, Bogotá – Colombia Guest lecturer in modules of the Specialization in Cultural Management and Management.  2007 – 2014
• Superior Academy of Art of Bogotá – A.S.A. Teacher in Plastic Arts and Director of thesis of degree. 1999 – 2000
• University of Sucre Lecturer on performance and new media in art. 1998 – 2000
• Atena-School of Art Teacher of plastic techniques and materials for children. 1992 – 1994
• Drawing and painting teacher in my private studio 1988 – 1990
• Leonardo Da Vinci Italian School Plastic arts teacher 1988 – 1989

Extracurricular activities

• Academic and cultural committees Art – Uniandinos Chapter University of the Andes Alumni Association, 1997 – 2024
• Art – Uniandinos Chapter President University of the Andes Alumni Association, 2020 – 2022
• Alternative Space Gallery Committee – Uniandinos University of the Andes Alumni Association, 1997 – 2022
• Active member of the Bogotá Film Festival Committee, 2003 – 2024 Responsible for international inter-institutional relations and strategies. Represented the Festival in the following International Festivals:

Cannes Film Festival, 2015

International Chicago Film Festival, 2014

Cuba Film Festival, 2013

• Member Cultural Advisory Committee – Uniandinos, 2020
• Uniandinos President of the Arts-Uniartes Chapter, 1999 – 2000
• Uniandinos Vice-President of the Arts-Uniartes Chapter, 1997 – 1998
• ACDA Colombian Association of Astronomical Studies, 1988 – 1994

Member of related associations and communities

• The Art Circle UAE – United Arab Emirates, 2020 – 2024
• Member AWC American Womens Club of Bogota Association of American women in Bogota, 2007 – 2024

Awards

Arts and Culture Award – Uniandinos, 2019

Community Communication Media S.A.S. MCC Order of Merit, year IV, IMPACTA-Medios de Comunicación Comunitarios S.A.S., for its trajectory in the cultural industry and its impact on society, 2018 

Bogota Film Festival Awarded with the Order of the Pre – Columbian Circle, 2017                             

International Film Corporation & Espacio Alterno Gallery Committee Uniandinos – Asociación de Egresados de la Universdad de los Andes. Artist selected to be the image of the 14th Cine Documental: Enrique Graú at the 34th Bogotá Film Festival. 2017

Selected as representative of Colombia by the British Council Creative Education-Edinburgh, Scotland. 2005

Publications

Publications written by me:

Catalogues for the exhibitions Alternative Space Gallery. Bogotá-Colombia. 2002 – 2019

Wrote articles about art and culture in the magazine Correo Cotidiano of Uniandinos. 2002 – 2019

The portrait in the work of Gómez Campuzano. Catalogue Raisonné. Editorial Panamericana. 2009

Research and curatorship in the arts. Ministery de Cultura2001. Bogotá – Colombia

Publications written about me:

Catalogue raisonné -The Collection-Museum of Modern Art of Bogota. 2018

Pero sigo siendo el mance”, Newspaper: La Prensa. Central page. July 9 – 1996. Bogotá – Colombia.

Interview: Newspaper El Espectador. Page 2 and 3. January 1991. Bogotá – Colombia.