
1958 Born in Bogotá, Colombia
Currently lives and works in Bogotá
Education
1984 MA, New York University
1980 BFA, Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano
Residencies and Awards
2005 The Ordway Prize, Penny McCall Foundation
1995 Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Grant
1993 Penny McCall Foundation Grant
Solo Exhibitions
2008
‘Doris Salcedo’, Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY
‘Neither’, The Inhotim, Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2007
‘Shibboleth’, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London
‘Doris Salcedo’, White Cube Hoxton Square, London
2004
‘Neither’, White Cube, London
2001
‘Doris Salcedo’, Camden Arts Centre, London
2000
‘Tenebrae: Noviembre 7, 1985’, Alexander and Bonin, New York
1999
‘Doris Salcedo: Unland’, Tate Gallery, London
1998
‘Doris Salcedo: Unland’, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1996
‘Atrabiliarios’, L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles
‘Doris Salcedo’, Le Creux de L'Enfer, Thiers, France
‘Doris Salcedo’, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
1995
‘La Casa Viuda VI’, White Cube, London
1994
‘La Casa Viuda’, Brooke Alexander, New York
1992
‘Doris Salcedo’, Shedhalle, Zürich
1990
‘Doris Salcedo’, Galería Garcés-Velásquez, Bogotá
1985
‘Nuevos Nombres’, Casa de la Moneda, Bogotá
Group Exhibitions
2008
NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith’, PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, Long Island City, New York
‘NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith’, The Menil Collection, Houston
2006
‘Wrestle’, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson
‘The 80s: A Topology’, Museu Serralves, Porto
‘Portrait/Embodiment/Homage’, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis
‘RE: LOCATION’, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2005
‘Abyss: T1 Triennial of Contemporary Art’, Castello di Rivoli, Turin
‘Farsites/Sitios Distantes’, San Diego Museum of Art; Centro Cultural Tijuana
2003
‘8th International Istanbul Biennial’, Istanbul
2002
‘SCULPTURE’, Alexander and Bonin, New York
‘Imagine, You Are Standing Here in Front Of Me’, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
‘Documenta 11’, Kassel
‘The Unthought Known’, White Cube, London
2001
‘ARS 01-Unfolding perspectives’, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
‘Lugares de la memoria’, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castello
‘Eztetyka del sueño’, Palacio de Velasquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
2000
‘Still’, Alexander and Bonin, New York
‘Of the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection’, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
‘History/Memory/Society’, Tate Modern, London
‘Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
‘Making Choices: In the Marriage of Reason and Squalor’, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1999
‘Modern Starts: Places’, Museum of Modern Art, New York
‘Trace’, The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art
1998
‘Roteiros’, XXIV Biennial de Sao Paulo, Brazil
‘Displacements: Miroslaw Balka, Doris Salcedo, Rachel Whiteread’, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
‘Eugenio Dittborn, Willie Doherty, Mona Hatoum, Doris Salcedo’, Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY
‘Wounds: between democracy and redemption in contemporary art’, The Moderna Museet, Stockholm
1997
‘Asi esta la cosa: Instalación y arte objeto en América Latina’, Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporáneo A.C.Mexico City
‘Body’, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
‘Selections from the Collection’, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
‘Words & Images’, Miami Art Museum, Miami
1996
‘The Visible & the Invisible; re-presenting the body in contemporary art and society’, Institute of International Visual Arts at St. Pancras Church, London
‘Distemper: Dissonant Themes in the Art of the 1990s’, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
‘Dissonant Wounds: Zones of Display/Metaphors of Atrophy’, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
‘Propositions’, Musée Departemental d'art contemporain de Rochechouart
1995
‘Carnegie International 1995’, Pittsburgh
‘Sleeper: Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Guillermo Kuitca, Doris Salcedo’, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
‘About Place: Recent Art of the Americas’, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
1994
‘Cocido y crudo’, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
‘Willie Doherty/Mona Hatoum/Doris Salcedo’, Brooke Alexander, New York
‘The Spine’, Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam
1993
‘Aperto 93’. Biennale di Venezia, Venice
‘Matthew Benedict, Willie Cole, Jim Hodges, Doris Salcedo’, Brooke Alexander, New York
‘Building a Collection’, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
‘Sculpture and Multiples’, Brooke Alexander, New York
1992
‘The Boundary Rider’, 9th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
1992-1994
‘Ante América’, Biblioteca Luis-Ángel Arango, Bogotá; Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José; The Spencer Art Museum, Lawrence, Kansas; Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco; Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego; Queens Museum of Art, New York; Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Caracas
1992
‘The Absent Body’, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
‘Américas: Expo 1992’, Junta de Andalucia, Huelva
1991
‘New Acquisitions’, Biblioteca Luis-Ángel Arango, Bogotá
1990
‘Nuevos Nombres Seguimiento’, Biblioteca Luis-Ángel Aranga, Bogotá
1989
‘Hierro’, Galería Garcés-Velásquez, Bogotá
1988
‘Primer Salon’, Galería Ventana, Cali
1987
‘XXXI Annual Exhibition of Colombian Artists’, Colcultura, Medellín
Other Projects
1989-1991
Professor of Sculpture and Art Theory, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá
1987-1988
Director, School of Plastic Arts, Instituto de Bellas Artes, Cali
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