• MAGNETISMO MAGNETISMO
• VIBRACION DE ALMAS VIBRACION DE ALMAS
• UNIVERSOS DE FANTASIA UNIVERSOS DE FANTASIA
• VUELOS SUMERGIDOS VUELOS SUMERGIDOS
• MUJER TEJIDO DE VIDA MUJER TEJIDO DE VIDA
• DANZA DE PISTILOS DANZA DE PISTILOS
• UN VIENTO QUE NO VIENE DEL CIELO UN VIENTO QUE NO VIENE DEL CIELO
• AMELIA CELESTE MARINA AMELIA CELESTE MARINA
• ACUARIO DE FLORES ACUARIO DE FLORES
• CANICAS I CANICAS I
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DORA (Dora Luz Delgado Pérez)

Antioquia, Medellin, COLOMBIE

Tel : CEL  300 367 45 08

Email : dldelgado1@hotmail.com

Facebook : www.facebook.com/dora.l.p.1

 

 

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHY 

 

Dedicated full time to art for vocation with passion, she discovers through her work the social and cultural impact of art. With discipline, she incorporates new tren ds and materials into her work, remaining actively linked to her social environment by connecting her work with various mediums of art and social work.

 

In the technical and conceptual aspect, she is inclined especially to the magical surrealistic movement. Her style is marked by warm colors, large formats, undulating shapes and glass spheres. Following this same line in most of her work.

 

With a clear figurative inclination, she works in her ever evolving art work by communicating a playful message full of childhood memories through her marbles and flowers, which aims to transport the spectator to the clean and elemental nature of the colorful children and their toys.

 

She was born in Medellín, studied History of Art at the School of Fine Arts, and then graduated as a Business Administrator at the San Martin University Foundation, continuing her studies in Painting and Sculpture at the Socrates Academy of Arts and Foundation in Medellin and in The Art Students League of New York.

 

Her work has been exhibited in Colombia, Peru, Belgium, Ecuador and the United States in more than 32 expositions, and in four opportunities in the Consulate of Colombia in Miami.

 

Currently, in addition to her artistic activity, she is a cultural manager and co-director of the CONVERSARTE cultural program, where she develops and links all her projects to social causes, with the goal of always positively impacting communities.

 

She is a member of the Antioquian Journalists Circle and has a space in the radio station called "Radio Cipa Estereo" where the different cultural actors of Medellin are promoted and invited. In there, artists from all kinds have a space to talk about them and show their work integrating them with their cultural and social environment so that they show the best of them, radio of culture.

 

She is a member of the international group of artists MAI COLOMBIA, where artists from more than 20 countries around the world are showing their work and participating in socio-cultural activities at an international level; In public and private spaces.

 

She works with the Network of Funeral Artists where they seek to recover the heritage, cultural and artistic value of cemeteries worldwide, and at the same time work on social research of the different nuances, dynamics that are developed in the environment and its solutions, linked to The Ibero-American Project of Art, Memory and Culture of which she is also a member.

 

During her time at the "Socrates Foundation", founded and directed by Master Julio Londoño, renowned Antioqueño sculptor; she shared workshops with soldiers victims of war and mines, which was a great opportunity to be an actor and observer of how art Rescues the best of each human being.

 

Member of the international collective "Paisarte" which works with girls victims of violence in the "Home Nazaria Ignacia" foundation of the Santa Elena district where children were given material and art and composition workshops were developed. The girls turn all of this in joy and in beautiful compositions and works that were exhibited in their facilities.

 

Internationally, she promotes and distributes the work of different national authors in Universities and public libraries in the United States: Spanish Book Fair in West Palm Beach (Florida), Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls Texas, where she participated in reading workshops of authors in Spanish and shared the work of more than 8 authors between poets and writers.

 

With the Social circle "Tertulia 4 Gatos" in Florida, she helped in introducing the books of Colombian authors to the Orange County Library systems, which now are being read by Hispanic residents throughout the state.

 

She developed with the Collective of Artists “Pinceladas de Libertad” that works internationally, economic support with the auction of some of her paintings for the construction of the Pavilion of Children's Cardiology of "San Vicente Foundation" Hospital of the Antioqueños, where she also teaches workshops for hospitalized children with the help of her fellow artists, poets and caricaturists.

 

Three years ago, she actively collaborated by giving up the copy rights of some of her work and supporting the sale of the annual calendar made and marketed by the "Social Transplant Foundation of Colombia" with the purpose of financing its operation and benefiting 248 transplant patients, 178 patients In dialysis and 117 patients under treatment throughout the country. 

 

 

 

STUDIES AND MEMBERSHIPS 

 

Artistic drawing. School of Fine Arts, Medellín 1986

 

Business administrator. San Martín University Foundation, Barranquilla 2004.

 

Gallery Workshop Drawing and oil painting Master Belarmino Miranda, Medellin 2013

 

Drawing and oil painting

The Art Students League the NY 2012

(212) 247-4510 - 215 West 57th Street New York

Info@artstudentsleague.org

 

Oil painting, sculpture and photography

Socrates Arts Academy, Medellin 2014

Cra. 46 60-55 Ph: 574-2543675

www.socrates.edu.co info@socrates.edu.c

 

Digital photography Eafit University (current)

 

Seminar creative thinking Governorate of Antioquia Medellin 2014

 

Active artist of the International groups: MAI COLOMBIA, Network of Funerary Artists, Iberoamerican Project Art of Memory and Culture, Embajadores del arte and Pinceladas de Libertad

 

Co-director of the group Paletas de sueños

 

Co-director of the cultural program Conversarte

 

Active member of the Circle of Journalists of Antioquia  

 

 

EXHIBITIONS 

 

Centro Comercial Mayorca Explosión Colectiva 2010, Sabaneta (Colombia)

 

Municipal Library of the City of Itagui Collective Exhibition 2011

 

Socrates Artistic and Cultural Center Collective Exhibition July 2012, Medellin (Colombia)

 

House of Culture of Sabaneta Collective Exhibition June 2013 (Colombia)

 

Poblado Plaza Hotel Live painting Collective exhibition July 2013, Medellin (Colombia)

 

House of Culture of el Poblado Live painting Collective Exhibition July 2013. Medellin (Colombia)

 

Fair of services Miami the Fair Expo Center Collective exhibition. Miami, September 2013 (U.S)

 

Technological Institute of Antioquia, collective, Medellin October 2013

 

La Spirale Gallery Collective Exhibition Liege, October 2013 (Belgium)

 

Casa de Santander. Collective, Kontemporanea traveling art "20'20": Twenty artists, Twenty looks. Bogota, November 2013 (Colombia)

 

City Plaza Shopping Mall, Collective, Departmental Art Network of Antioquia Envigado November 2013 (Colombia)

 

Baricharte, International Exhibition of Plastic Arts, Barichara, Santander December 27 2013 (Colombia)

 

House of Culture Ricardo Rendon, collective, Collective of artists Paisarte, Rionegro, January of 2014. (Colombia)

 

House of Culture of Bello. Collective, Collective of artists PaisArte, Bello, January 2014. (Colombia)

 

House of Culture of El Retiro. Collective. Collective of artists PaisArte, El Retiro, April 2014 (Colombia)

 

Orlando City Hall. Collective, Artist Collective, “Embajadores del Arte a traves de la paz”, Orlando Florida. April 2014 (United States)

 

Consulate General of Colombia in Miami "Modern and Abstract Colombia", Collective 5 women Colombian artists August 2014 (United States)

 

Osceola Center of Art. Orlando Florida, Collective September 2014 (United States)

 

Miami Fair Services The Fair Expo Center Collective exhibition, "Tribute to Gabo". Miami, September 2014 (United States)

 

"BARICHARTE", December 2014. Barichara, Santander (Colombia)

 

Orange County Library System, "Anniversary Tertulia 4 gatos", Collective, April 23rd, 2015, Orlando Florida (United States)

 

Consulate General of Colombia in Miami "Paz & Peace" collective, July 2nd, 2015, Miami, Florida. (U.S)

 

Angostura (Antioquia) August 8th and 9th Embajadores de la paz tribute from the Mayor and exhibition in the House Museum Por_rio Barba Jacob.

 

House of culture of Envigado, Alternative headquarters “Flores" collective September 2015 Envigado (Colombia) 

 

"Miami The Fair Expocenter" collective "Biodiversity", September 2015 Miami (United States)

 

First Ibero-American exhibition of art, memory and worship of our dead, in the Encounter of valuation and management of patrimonial cemeteries, Cathedral of Lima, November of 2015 (Lima Peru)

 

"National expocolective of plastic artists" "Ciudad señora" November 2015 Buga Colombia

 

Collective international exhibition 17 countries 44 artists "Presence and testimony" Historical museum El Peñol, April 16th, 2016, El Peñol Antioquia Colombia

 

"Latin Expression Art" collective international exhibition "Art Emporium Gallery" May 5th, 2016 Miami USA

 

"Realidades y visiones" Departmental library Jorge Garcés Borrero, June 2016, Cali (Colombia)

 

Ibero-American exhibition of art, memory and cult of our dead, collective, August 2016, San Bernardo, Cundinamarca (Colombia)

 

"Pinceladas de Libertad" House of culture of Envigado, Alternative headquarters, collective, September 15th, 2016 Envigado (Colombia)

 

"Living art" Park and Library Debora Arango, September 20th, 2016 Envigado (Colombia)

 

Consulate of Colombia in Miami, The Fair Expo Center, Collective Exhibition, "Migration" September 23rd and 24th, 2016 Miami, USA.

 

International exhibition "Contemporary trends" collective. October 12th, 2016, Ibarra, Ecuador.

 

Union of citizens of Colombia "Con las artistas La Paz va" Collective. November 3rd, 2016 Medellin.

 

National collective exhibition of plastic arts "Ciudad Señora" December 2016, Buga Colombia.

 

Collective Exhibition MAI COLOMBIA “LAS FLORES DEL MAL, SIN FLORES Y SIN MAL”, honoring Baudelaire, Alliance Française, Medellin Colombia.

 

International exhibition "Baricharte" December 2016, Barichara, Colombia.

 

International exhibition “Solidarios por la Paz” Foreign affairs Ministry of El Salvador, National Exhibition Hall Salarrué, January 2017, San Salvador, El Salvador.

 

2nd international meeting of artists MAI CoIlombia (Collective), Delegated House of Nariño, March 2017- Bogota.

 

Meeting of Colombian painters “Por una nueva oportunidad de vida” (Collective), Delegated House of Nariño, April 2017- Bogota.

 

International art exhibition "Buga espiritual" (Collective), April 2017- Buga.

 

International collective exhibition “Desvendando o Universo de Amelie Poulain” April 2017 - Brasil and Francia.  

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

MIAMI HERALD AUGUST 2014

 

COVER OF THE BOOK “EL TRUENO QUE AMA” 2015 EDITION, FROM THE COLOMBIAN POET BEN ELOHIM 

 

COVER OF THE BOOK “OJOS DE LUNA AZUL” EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY THE COLOMBIAN POET HOLMES PINTO SELLEER 2015

 

GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION OF THE BOOK “EL LIBRO EL MILAGRO DE VIVIR” OF THE COLOMBIAN WRITER CLAUDIA MEJIA RAMIREZ. 2015

 

COVER OF THE ANTHOLOGY " ENCUENTRO POETAS POR LA PAZ” MEDELLIN APRIL 2016

 

MAGAZINE “VIGUERIAS CULTURALES” ENVIGADO 2016

 

COVER OF THE BOOK "FLOR DE ARIZA" WRITTEN BY THE POET ANGELA PENAGOS OCTOBER 2016

 

CALENDAR / PROGRAMMER FOR THE FOUNDATION TRANSPALANTE COLOMBIA OCTOBER 2014, 2015,2016 AND 2017.

 

INSTITUTIONAL NEWSPAPER OF THE SAN VIVENTE FOUNDATION OCTOBER 2016

 

MAGAZINE “VIGUERIAS CULTURALES”, EDITION 22, MARCH 2017, COLOMBIA.

 

COVER OF THE BOOK “SOBRE LA PIEL DEL AMOR” - BASILIO RODRIGUEZ CAÑADA (ED. PIGMALIÓN), APRIL 2017, SPAIN.  

 

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 

  

Recognition granted by the mayor Jose Miguel Vasquez Arango, Museum Porfirio Barba Jacob, for the donation of the painting "Fantasia" Cultural heritage of the municipality of Angostura Antioquia, August 8, 2015.

 

Recognition of female artists, granted by Alcadia de Medellín through the secretariat, For women, in the framework of the celebration "Medellín women and art" November 2016