Liliana Angulo Cortés Explained

Liliana Angulo Cortés
Birth Name:Astrid Liliana Angulo Cortés[1]
Birth Date:1974
Birth Place:Bogotá, Colombia
Occupation: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

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

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

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. 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

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Notes and References

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

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