• visual artist born and based in Bogotá-Colombia.
    Cárdenas installation, sculpture, mixed-media work delves into urban ruins and cities landscapes as indications of social transformation, loss and historical memory. From the decomposition of the physical and emotional fabric of the intervened spaces, discarded structures, archives and vestiges are used asmaterial for her work from a sculptural strategy that draws on history, architecture and archeology. Last year her work was featured in Hangzhou Triennial of  Fiber Art (Re-constellations) -China and BIAM (Bienal Internacional de Antioquia y Medellín 2025 )-Colombia. In 2023 she was the subject of an anthological exhibition at Museo de Artes Visuales-UJTL-Bogotá. In 2022 participated with two new commissions for the Biennale d'Art (Manifesto of Fragility) in Lyon-France. In 2019 he received the CIFO Award (Mid Career Artist), in 2018 she was part of the Cuenca Biennial (Living Structures) in Ecuador. In 2017, her work Excision was part of the exhibition Home, so different So appealing, which was exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH). Also in 2017 she participated in the California Pacific Triennial at OCMA (Orange County Museum of Art). And was part of the NEARCH-Art and Archeology project "The Materiality of the Invisible" at the Jan Van Eyck Academie -Maastricht, 2015-17.

    Her work has been shown at Palais de Tokyo- Paris, Museo del Barrio-NY, LACMA, OCMA, MFAH, MAM Cuenca, Q21Museums Quartier-Wien, Museo de Arte de Zapopán-México, CAM-Raleigh, Institute of Contemporary Art-SanJose (SJICA), MAM-Medellín, Maison de l ́Amérique Latine-Paris, Apexart-NY, Espacio 23-Miami, MAMU-Bogotá, among others. 

    In addition she has had solo shows in Bogotá, Miami, Paris, San Jose, Los Angeles and Madrid. 

    Artistic Residencies & Grants: CCAndratx- Mallorca. Spain, Pro-Helvetia Residency 2022, Cifo Award 2019, Oma Art Prize 2016, Artist in residency at Q21Museums Quartier Wien-Austria 2016, NEARCH-Art and Archeology “The Materiality of the Invisible” residency at the Jan Van Eyck Academie - Maastricht, 2015-17. Winner of the 2012 Biennial Award of Bogotá, selected for LARA (Latin American Roaming Art) a project of Asiaciti Trust 2012. She was selected to partic- ipate in a workshop with Mona Hatoum at Fundación Marcelo Botin-Spain 2010, and also she was an Associate Artist-in-Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts (ACA) in 2007. Winner of the Grand Prize MOLAA Awards 2008-Museum of Latin American Art, CA. 

    Cárdenas work can be found in public and private collections in Colombia, South America , Europe and throughout the States. 

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    2004 M.F.A., University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
    1999 B.F.A., Los Andes University, Bogotá, Colombia

    GRANTS-AWARDS

    2019 CIFO ( CISNEROS FONTANALS ART FDN.) U.S.A
    2016 Award Oma a las Artes (Artbo) Bogotá
    2015-17 NEARCH PROJECT ART & ARCHAEOLOGY 'THE MATERIALITY OF THE INVISIBLE' Jan Van Eyck Academy. Maastricht - NL
    2012 Award 2º Bienal de Artes Visuales. F.U.G.A.
    LARA (Latin American Roaming Art) a project of Asiacity Trust.
    2011 colective la cooperativa: Grant for curating Regional Artists Salon.
    2008 Gran Premio MOLAA Awards 2008. Long Beach,CA - U.S.A.

    RESIDENCIES

    CCAndratx- Mallorca. Spain,
    Pro Helvetia- Geneva/Winterthur Switzerland
    Bellas Artes Projects. Philippines.
    Ria Keburia Art Residency, Tbilisi, Georgia.
    Q21, Museums Quartier Wien - Austria, Jan Van Eyck Academy. Maastricht NL. Variable Dimensions. Miami,FL. Workshop with Mona Hatoum en la F. Marcelo Botin, Santander, Spain,. Associate Artist in Residency. ACFA. New Smyrna, FL.

    SOLO EXHIBITIONS

    2025 Possible Bifurcations. galería Max Estrella- Madrid

    2024 des tramo. galería Casas Riegner Bogotá

    2023 de volver se. Anthology Museo Universitario UJTL. Bogotá

    2018 ressasser. Exhibition at GALERIE DIX9.Paris-France

    2017 vice versa project at Dimensions Variable, Miami-

    reconocer at Galería Casas Riegner, Bogotá-Colombia

    2016 2015 2014 Indagaciones Cronotópicas. Galería Max Estrella, Madrid- Spain.

    Trama. Propuesta para el espacio Odeón. Bogotá.

    Site-specific intervention. Museo La Tertulia, Cali

    El Tiempo lo aguanta todo. Casas Riegner gallery

    Scarcity. Site-specific intervention, ICASJ, San Jose, CA

    2013 2012 2011 2006 Intervención en la Biblioteca Nacional, Bogotá

    Excision, Art Positions, Casas Riegner, Miami

    "lo deshecho", Galería Casas Riegner, Bogotá

    "Traces", d.e.n. contemporary art, Los Angeles, CA

    COMPLETE CV [PDF]

  • Excision [brochure] a project for Art Positions (Art Basel). Galería Casas Riegner

    Exhibition Catalogs:
    Re-Constellations. 5th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art.
    Manifesto of Fragility - 16th Lyon Biennale.
    An Emphasis on Resistance: 2019 (CIFO)
    XIV Estructuras Vivientes. El arte como experiencia plural.
    Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador. [work cover of the catalog]
    Home-So Different, So Appealing. Edited by Chon A.Noriega, Mari Carmen Ramírez, and Pilar Tompkins Rivas.[Excision on the cover of the catalog]. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) - UCLA CSRC
    Building as ever - II California Pacific Triennial. Curator Cassandra Coblentz. Orange County Museum of Art.
    Saber Desconocer. 43 Salón (inter)Nacional de Artistas.
    Arte-sur/ Collective Fictions, Andrew Bernardini. Le Magazine du Palais de Tokyo, Summer 2013.
    LARA (2012), authors Jose Roca, Alexia Tala, Asiaciti Trust
    La cooperativa, CuraduríaSNA-Centro Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia (Colectivo La Cooperativa)
    VOYAGE l VOYAGE (2012) un art contemporain déboussole, Albertine de Galbert, Carolina Ariza. Maison de l’Amérique latine, Paris

    Included in publications:
    Art in California. Jenni Sorkin Published by Thames & Hudson
    Remains-Tomorrow. Edited by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill
    Conceptos de Arte Contemporáneo.NC-Arte
    Removido (2013) in Beatrice Ferrara´s essay part of The Ruined Archive (edited by Iain Cham- bers, Giulia Grechi and Mark Nash). Milano: Polit.di Milano DPA

  • Tejer la imagen (ABC Cultural)
    destramo (Art Nexus 124)
    Art-Archeologie (Quotidien de L´Art)
    La Biennale de Lyon (BeauxArts)
    de volver se (Art Nexus 121)
    Materialising Space&Time (TL mag)
    Modos de medir el tiempo (ARCADIA)
    reconocer (Art Nexus 105)