
ADRIANA ESPINOSA CALLE
Artista Colombiana“The creation of my work revolves around memory and identity. Facts, protagonists and spaces where they take place, be these personal or historical events, create our identity. For this reason I am interested in the traces, especially American men have left to perpetuate their existence, from petroglyphs to bar codes”.
Biography
Born in Bogotá D.C, Colombia in December 15, 1953. Works in Bogotá and resides in Chia, suburb of the capital. Graduated in Visual Arts from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. She specialized on chalcography engraving technique in different graphic workshops in Bogotá. Between 1984 and 1987 she produced 30 etchings to illustrate the books Mutis, Caldas, Codazzi, Forger of Culture, from Hermann Schumacher. In 1987 the Colombian Institute for Education Abroad, (ICETEX) grants her a scholarship for two years, to study metal engraving in the National Chalcography of Rome. In 1988 she won the silver plate in Giorgio Mondadori’s Prize-Art.
Her art works have been exhibited at solo exhibitions in Italy and Colombia, and at various collectives in Colombia, Peru, Italy and Spain and has participated in international art events such as the VII Biennial of Graphic Arts in Puerto Rico (1986), VIII Latin American Biennial of Art in Mexico (1992), XIV Mini Print International, Gadaques, Spain (1994), International Biennial of Drawing, Joseph Amat, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain (2001), I- II-III and IV International Exhibitions of the Xalubinia Workshop, in Menorca (2007, 2008, 2009), (New York 2010). She has also done Individual exhibitions in Rome and Bogotá.
As a personal project, from 2001 to 2011, she associated with three NGO to recover photographic files, drawing portraits from victims of the violence. Since 2012 she has been developing the project Habitar la Historia, (Dwell the History) a performance – installation that presents engravings, drawings and portraits, to illustrate the biography of the scientist Francisco José de Caldas “The wise”1768-1816, in historical locations where the most important facts of his life took place.
In 2012 The Colombian National Museum acquires three of her art works. In 1998, Interested in arts education, she started working in Pontificia Universidad Javeriana teaching etching and drawing at the Art Department where she continues playing that role.