Camilo Leyva Espinel - CV

  • EDUCATION AND RESIDENCIES
    • 2021
    MA Art History. Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia
    2012
    MFA Fine Arts. Parsons The New School for Design, School of Art Media and Technology. New York, NY.
    2007
    BFA emphasis in New Media Art. Universidad de los Andes.Bogotá, Colombia.
    2016
    Skowhegan school of painting and sculpture. Skowhegan, Maine.
    2018
    SAAS-Fee Summer Program Art and the Poetics of Praxis in Cognitive Capitalism. Berlin. Germany
    2018
    Hawapi-Pondores Residency. La Guajira, Colombia.

  • PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

    • 2022 - 2024

    Part-time professor Universidad Javeriana.
    2013 - 2023
    Part-time professor at Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano.
    2014 - 2015
    Researcher and co-curator of the digital platform Orpéndola Art and conflict. Now becoming part of the digital program of the Memory Museum of Colombia.
    2008 - 2009
    Guest curator at the National Museum of Colombia for the exhibition In praise of scrap metal an overview of the work of Feliza Bursztyn.
    2008 - 2009
    Researcher the project Documents of 20th Century Latin American and Latino Art del ICAA (International Center for the Arts of the Americas). MFAH.
  • SOLO EXHIBITIONS
    • 2024
    AMBI PLAYGROUND. Ruffin Gallery. UVA Department of Art.
    2018
    Again_ Espacio El Dorado. Texts by Julia Buenaventura. Bogotá, Colombia.
    2015
    The Promise of Disorganization. Cristina Lleras curator, Juliana Botero anthropologist. Bogotá's Chamber of Commerce building. Bogotá, Colombia.
    2014
    Machine. Fundación Teatro Odeón. Curator Erika Martínez Cuervo. Bogotá, Colombia.

  • SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
    • 2023
    Florero, jardinero, profesor. Casa Lleras Utadeo. Bogotá, Colombia.
    2019

    Estados de la mirada. Espacio el Dorado. Bogotá, Colombia.

    Murmurio. Museo de Arte de Pereira. Pereira, Risaralda.

    2018

    Unidad Mínima (Minimum Unit). Espacio El Dorado. Bogotá, Colombia.

    Popper. UV estudios. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

    ¿Qué saben los artistas? (What do artist know?). Salón Regional. Bogotá, Colombia.

    El tiempo del fin (The end time). ICPNA. Lima, Perú.

    2016

    En medio (A Midst). Espacio El Dorado. Bogotá, Colombia.

    Traded. Lawndale Art Center. Houston, Texas.

    2015

    La ciudad (The City). Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Bogotá, Colombia.

    Museo Efímero del Olvido. (Ephemeral Museum of Oblivion) Participation with the collective Agoraphobia. Bogotá, Colombia.

    Espacios para la ficción. (Spaces for Fiction) Museo de Arte y Cultura Colsubsidio. Bogotá, Colombia.

    2012

    Gowanus Field Notes. Can Factory - Brooklyn, NY. Curators: Edward Morris and Susannah Sayler.

    (Re)purpose.The Kitchen. New York, NY. Curators: Veronica Roberts and Jane Panetta.

    2011

    Gowanus Field Notes. Parallel to the exhibition Unfold at the Sheila Johnson Design Center. Parsons The New School for Design. Curators: Edward Morris and Susannah Sayler.

    Pretty Vacant. Brooklyn, NY. Curators: Antonio Serna y Carlos Little. Participation as: GroupTherapy (Pablo Gómez and John Small).

    2010

    Group Therapy. 25 E 13th St. Gallery. New York, NY. With: Pablo Gómez and John Small.

    ArteCámara (Young artist exhibition at Bogota's art fair ArtBo). Curated by: María Iovino at ArtBo 2010. Bogotá, Colombia.

  • PUBLICATIONS
    • 2022

    “Azilef, Minimáquinas, and the Other Dimension of Feliza Bursztyn” chapter for the book: Feliza Bursztyn: Welding madness. Edited by: Marta Dziewanska and Abigail Winograd.

    2015

    “Conceptos para la construcción del archivo digital: Oropéndola Arte y Conflicto”. (Concepts for the construction of the digital archive: Oriole, art and conflict.) Karpa Journal 8. (2015): n. pag. Ochoa, Manuela y Camilo Leyva.

    2013

    Pensadores Colombianos del Siglo XX. Vol. 4. Chapter: Feliza Bursztyn. Edited by Instituto Pensar of Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia

  • DISTINCTIONS
    • 2011 - 2010

    Dean Scholarship Award Parsons the New School for Design New York, NY.