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Miguel Angel Rojas
Born in Bogotá, Colombia
Miguel Angel Rojas: Points of Fact
Miguel Angel Rojas is one of a handful of Colombian artists who use the processes, semantics and pragmatics of the medium of photography to expose unexpected layers of reality. These layers involve not only Rojas’s sexual preferences and interests, but also the socio-political circumstances in which his life transpires. An early series of photographs from the Faenza cinemas in Bogotá are covert long exposures of scenes of a popular gay casual-sex meeting place. Atenas c.c. (Athens Continuous Cinema) is an installation of 70 photographs of floor tiles on which sperm was spilled. A later installation, “Paquita compra un helado” (Paquita buys an ice-cream), is a cartoon-like story of a little girl’s vicissitudes as she goes shopping for an ice-cream cone, drawn with confetti-size reduced photographs of sexual encounters. In the work Go On (2001) Rojas used a similar strategy of drawing with circular points for a scene of the American West --except the confetti dots are pieces of coca leaves. Another image, Bratatá (2001), drawn with coca-leaf dots takes off from Roy Lichtenstein’s As I opened fire (1964) except the caption has been changed to “Addiction Storm.” Rojas appropriated a jaguar from the Colombian truck iconography which he rendered with U.S. dollar confetti dots in a work titled It’s Better to Be Rich Than Poor (2001). Says Rojas, “I tried to address the theme of drug-trafficking from several angles: the presence of the empire, the acculturation caused by the influx of dollars, the war financed with that money, the immorality and corruption that are the direct consequence of easy money.”
Fernando Castro R.
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2006 Fotofest 2006, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas.
2004 Must we meet like this?, Casas Riegner Gallery, Miami, Florida.
2002 La Cama de Piedra, Museo Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia.
2001 Sub, Galería Valenzuela – Klenner, Bogotá, Colombia.
2000 La Cama de Piedra, Alianza Colombo – Francesa, Bogotá, Colombia.
1995 Pascal y Pascual, Museo del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico.
1992 Dibujo y Pintura, Galería Arteria, Barranquilla, Colombia.
1991 Bio, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia.
1990 Miguel Angel Rojas, Museo de Arte Moderno, Cartagena, Colombia.
Miguel Angel Rojas obra en proceso, Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellín, Colombia.
Pinturas, Galería Garcés-Velásquez, Bogotá, Colombia.
1985 Bio, Intar Latin-American Gallery, New York, New York.
1982 Subjetivo, Galería Garcés-Velásquez, Bogotá, Colombia.
1981 Works on Paper, Center for Inter-American Relationes, New York, New York.
1980 Grano, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 Art Basel Miami Beach 05, Galeria Alcuadrado.
Fotográfica Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia.
Imagen + Realidad, María Elvira Escallón, Juan Fernando Herrán, Oscar Muñoz, Miguel Ángel Rojas, Galería Alcuadrado, Bogotá, Colombia.
Campos Latinamericanos, Regina Silveira – Brasil, Miguel Ángel Rojas – Colombia, Galería Alcuadrado, Bogotá, Colombia.
2004 Cantos Cuentos Colombianos, Daros Latinamerica Collection, Zurich, Switzerland.
39 Salón nacional de Artistas, Mención especial, Bogotá, Colombia.
FIAC 04, Galería Alcuadrado, Paris, France.
ARCO 04, Galería Alcuadrado, Madrid, Spain.
2003 Colombia 2003, Museo de Arte Moderno MAMBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The American Effect, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York.
Tres Artistas Alcuadrado, Galería Alcuadrado, Bogotá, Colombia.
2002 Photographic Memory and Other Shots in the Dark, Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, California.
VIII Bienal de Bogotá, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia.
2001 Colombia Visible e Invisible, Galería Fernando Pradilla, Madrid, Spain.
2000 Define Contex, Apex Gallery, New York, New York.
1999 Re-Aligning Vision, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida.
Status Quo, Galería Valenzuela – Klenner, Bogotá, Colombia.
1998 Re-Aligning Vision, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Texas University, Austin, Texas; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico.
1997 Re-Aligning Vision, Museo del Barrio, New York; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Premio Marco 96, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Marco Monterrey, Mexico.
1996 Arte, Politica y Religión, Barbican Centre, London, England.
Realismo Mágico? Arte Figurativo de Los Años Noventas en Colombia, Galerie Théoremes, Brussels, Belgium; Centro Cultural Melina Mercury, Athens, Greece; University of Essex & Aberysmith, England.
America Latina 96 en el Museo de Bellas Artes, Museo de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Feria de Arte de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico.
V Bienal de Bogotá, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia.
Premio Marco 95, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Marco, Monterrey, Mexico.
1995 Arte, Politica y Religion, Mead Gallery, Warwick Art Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, England.
A Propósito de Colombia, Kulturhaus Lateinamerika, Cologne, Germany.
Premio Marco, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Marco, Monterrey, Mexico.
1994 V Bienal de La Habana, Museo de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.
Art 25’94, Basel, Switzerland.
1993 Lateinamerikanische Kunst, Museum Ludwning, Cologne, Germany.
Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, MOMA, New York, New York.
Encuentro de Fotografia Latinoamericana, Caracas, Venezuela.
1992 Eco Art, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Fotofest, G.R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas.
Premio de Escultura Joan Miro, Centro Miro, Barcelona, Spain.
Artistas Latinoamericanos del Siglo XX, Edificio Plaza de Armas, Sevilla, Spain.
X Muestra de Grabado “Nuestra America”, Curitiba, Brazil.
Arte Contemporaneo Colombiano, Pabellon de Artes, Expo Sevilla 92, Sevilla, Spain.
Ante America, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia.
America Latines Art Contemporain, Hotel des Arts, Fundation Nacionales des Arts, Paris, France.
Eco Art, Museo de Arte Moderno, Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
1991 Mito y Magia en America, Los Ochenta, Museo Marco, Monterrey, Mexico.
1990 Images of Silence, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1989 Images of Silence, Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington, D.C.
1987 Un Cuerpo Marginal, Center for Photography, Paddington, Australia.
1986 Cem Anos de Arte em Colombia, Palacio Imperial, Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
Colombian Contemporary Art, Mall Galleries, London, England.
XXX Salon Nacional de Artistas, Museo Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia.
IV Bienal Americana de Artes Graficas, Museo La Tertulia, California.
Il Bienal de La Habana, Museo de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.
1983 World Print Four, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California.
1982 IV Bienal of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Recent Editions, Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, New York.
Muñoz-Astudillo-Rojas-Ramírez, Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia.
1981 Artes Graficas Panamericanas, Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, New York.
IV Bienal de Arte de Medellin, Palacio de Exposiciones, Medellin, Colombia.
Works on Paper, Franco-Gonzalez-Rojas, Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, New York.
I Coloquio Latinoamericano de Arte No Objetual, Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellin, Colombia.
XVI Bienal de Sao Paulo, Palacio de Exposiciones, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1979 XI Bienal Internacional de Grabado, Tokyo, Japan.
Il Trienal Latinoamericana de Grabado, Centro de Arte y Comunicacion, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
IV Bienal Latinoamerica de Artes Graficas, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
I Bienal Internacional de Pintura, Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno, Cuenca, Ecuador.
1977 La Plastica Colombiana de Este Siglo, Casa de Las Americas, Havana, Cuba.
Los Novisimos Colombianos, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela.
1976 Realist Prints, Exhibition in Galleries and Museums in Australia.
1975 I Salon Atenas, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia.
1974 Arte Colombiano de Hoy, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela.
III Bienal Latinoamericana de Artes Graficas, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
COLLECTIONS
Daros Latin America Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Museo de Arte Americano de Managua, Managua, Nicaragua
Museo of Contemporary Art Marco, Monterrey, Mexico
Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
Museo de Arte Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia
Museo Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia
Museo de Arte Moderno, Bucaramanga, Colombia
Coleccion de la Rectoria de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
Coleccion Embajada de Colombia en España, Madrid, Spain
Museo de Arte Moderno, Barranquilla, Colombia
Embajada de Francia, Bogotá, Colombia
Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango del Banco de La Republica, Bogotá, Colombia
Museo de Arte Moderno, Cartagena, Colombia
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