Liliana Angulo Cortés

Liliana Angulo Cortés
Cortés in 2024
Born
Astrid Liliana Angulo Cortés[1]

1974 (1974)
Bogotá, Colombia
Died21 February 2026(2026-02-21) (aged 51)
Bogotá, Colombia
OccupationsVisual artist, activist, academic

Astrid Liliana Angulo Cortés (1974 – 21 February 2026) was 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]

Life and career

Angulo Cortés was inclined toward art education ever since she began her secondary studies. As a Professor of Studio Arts and a practising artist, Cortés 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]

She 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]

Cortés died on 21 February 2026 in Bogotá, at the age of 51.[12][13]

Artistic work

Cortés 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.[3] In doing so, she developed a systematic reflection regarding the tensions arising from the intersection of gender and race in Colombian society.[14]

She also used 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 is a labour of rewriting memory.[15]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 14 May to 8 June 2018 – Observing Whiteness. CSRPC at the University of Chicago.[16]
  • 2009 – Black Presence/Presencia Negra. Gorecki Gallery St John, San Benedict University of Minnesota, USA[2][14]
  • 2007 – Négritude. Alianza Colombo Francesa de Bogotá, Colombia.[17]
  • 2003 – Mancha negra. Valenzuela y Klenner arte contemporáneo. Bogotá, Colombia.[18]
  • 2000 – Un negro es un negro. Photo exhibit Exposición fotográfica. Instituto municipal para el arte y la cultura. IMAC, Durango, México.[19]

Group exhibitions

  • May 2019 – Museo 360, ¿qué pasó aquí? Antioquia Museum, Medellín, Colombia[20]
  • 4 November to 22 December 2017 – Identidad. Résidence croisée France-Colombie Liliana Angulo — Mariangela Aponte Nuñez — Guillaume Chauvin. La Chambre, exhibition and studio space. Strasbourg, France.[21][22]
  • November 2008 to January 2009 – Cali es Cali. 41 Salón Nacional de Artistas de Colombia Santiago de Cali, Colombia.[19]
  • November 2006 to January 2007 – Mambo Negrita. IX Bienal del Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia.[23]
  • July–August, 2006 – Viaje sin mapa, imagen y representación afro en el arte contemporáneo colombiano. Casa de Moneda, Bogotá, Colombia.[14][24]
  • 2005 – ¿Se acabó el rollo? Historia de la fotografía en Colombia de 1950-2000. Museo Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia.

References

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  4. ^ "Astrid Liliana Angulo Cortés". C& AMÉRICA LATINA. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  5. ^ "45sna". 45sna. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  6. ^ "función publica". funcionpublica. Archived from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
  7. ^ "La Red Cultural del Banco de la República". Banco de la República (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  8. ^ "Resolución del instituto distrital firmado por Liliana Angulo Cortés" (PDF).
  9. ^ "Liliana Angulo Cortés - Collaborators - Independent Curators International". curatorsintl.org. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  10. ^ "Contributors: Liliana Angulo Cortés". HKW. 9 October 2019. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  11. ^ "Y EL AMOR... ¿CÓMO VA?; Coordinación y Curadoría: Liliana Angulo Cortés, Pascale Molinier, Mara Viveros Vigoya on Howard Karno Books, Inc". Howard Karno Books, Inc. Archived from the original on 17 July 2020. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  12. ^ "Murió Astrid Liliana Angulo, directora del Museo Nacional de Colombia". El Tiempo. 21 February 2026. Retrieved 22 February 2026.
  13. ^ Muere la directora del Museo Nacional de Colombia, Liliana Angulo Cortés
  14. ^ a b c "Retratos en Blanco y Afro". Issuu. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  15. ^ "LAURA ANDERSON BARBATA Y ASTRID LILIANA ANGULO CORTÉS SOBRE ARTE Y ACTIVISMOS". Artishock Revista (in Spanish). 11 September 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  16. ^ Tran, Chrysanthemum. "Poetics and Performance in the Diaspora: A Conversation and Workshop... Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture". The University of Chicago. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  17. ^ "Prototeca". www.prototeca.com. Archived from the original on 20 July 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  18. ^ "Instituto Municipal del Arte y la Cultura de Durango (IMAC)". Secretaría de Cultura/Sistema de Información Cultural (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  19. ^ a b "Catálogo del 41 Salón Nacional de Artistas". Issuu. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  20. ^ Arcadia, Revista (6 May 2019). "Museo 360, ¿qué pasó aquí?". Museo 360, ¿qué pasó aquí? (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  21. ^ "Informe final de la temporada Colombia en Francia 2017" (PDF).
  22. ^ "Comunicado de Prensa de la exposición "Identidad"" (PDF).
  23. ^ "UNIMEDIOS UN Periódico". historico.unperiodico.unal.edu.co. Archived from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  24. ^ "Guía de estudio núm. 37. Viaje sin mapa: representaciones afro en el arte contemporáneo colombiano :: Guías de estudio - BanRepcultural". babel.banrepcultural.org. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
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