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Alicia Barney (b. Cali, Colombia 1952)

While a student at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in the 1970s, Barney showed an interest in transcendent, almost metaphysical works. Her creations questioned or reflected upon the different situations she encountered in her surroundings, moving from the personal to the universal, to themes such as the destruction of nature and the environment, overpopulation and hunger. Yet moreover, they showed a decidedly singular artistic character. She executed her work using rituals and creative processes that grow from spiritual and intuitive principles, revealing mystical connections with art, yet from a consistently critical, cynical and daring perspective.

Although she prefers not to talk about religious beliefs, her work has a shamanic strength to it. Both her work and her career show an almost immaterial potency that has enabled her to follow and continue to create along Colombia’s arid path of conceptual art – an area that is now starting to be studied. Upon finishing her studies abroad and returning to her hometown of Cali, the local art scene and spaces open to conceptual and critical practices were scarce, and although she has realized various institutional shows, thanks to the support of influential curators, her work has not been given proper recognition in terms of her position as a pioneering artist in ecological and land art, as well as in gender studies in the art history of Colombia, which is still waiting to be written.

Barney’s experience with artistic tools, such as the found object, makes her a unique presence in the seventies and eighties in Colombia – a period largely dominated by men – as she used her most intimate experiences for the exploration of art, as well as including science and philosophy in her work.

Biography

Cali, 1952 EDUCATION

1974      Bachelor of Fine Arts. College of New Rochelle, New York. 1977      Master of Fine Arts. Pratt Institute, New York. INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS 1974      “BFA Thesis Exhibition”. College of New Rochelle.

1977      “MFA Thesis Exhibition”. Pratt Institute, New York.

1978      “Diario Objeto I”. Universidad del Valle, Cali. “Diario Objeto I”. Sala de la Gobernación, Cali.

1982     “El Ecológico”. Espacio Alterno Sara Modiano, Barranquilla.

1993 “Aves en el cielo”. Gartner Torres, Bogotá.

1998     “Juguete de las Hadas”. Museo de Arte, Pereira. Museo La Merced, Cali. GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1979      “V Salón Atenas”. Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá.

1980      “Arte para los Años 80”. Museo La Tertulia, Cali. “14 Artistas de Cali”. G. B. Central Hipotecario, Bogotá. “Década de los Setentas”. Cámara de Comercio de Cali. “XXVIII Salón de Artistas Nacionales”. Museo Nacional, Bogotá.

1981     “IV Bienal de Arte”. Medellín.

1982      “Cinco Artistas Colombianos”. Espacio N.O. Porto Alegre, Brazil. “Nuevos Aportes y Tendencias”. Centro Colombo Americano, Bogotá. “La mujer en América: Perspectivas Emergentes”. Centro Interamericano, New York. 1983      “Actitudes Plurales”. Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali.

1984      “Aspectos de lo Tridimensional”. Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali.

1985      “Cien Años de Arte Colombiano”. Museo Arte Moderno, Bogotá. Palacio Imperial, Rio de Janeiro. Centro Cultural, Sao Paulo. Centro Ítalo Americano, Roma. Centro Cultural Avianca, Barranquilla. “Barney Caro Echeverri ”. Biblioteca Pública Piloto, Medellín.

1986      “XXX Salón Anual de Artistas Colombianos”. Museo Nacional, Bogotá. 1987-8   “Douse Mondes Colombiens”. Grand Palais, París. Castillo Babstadt, Alemania. Federal, Museo de Antioquia, Medellín. Gartner/Torres, Bogotá. Salón Múltiple Amira de la Rosa, Barranquilla. Cámara de Comercio de Cali. Museo de Arte Moderno de Cartagena.

1988      “I Bienal de Arte”. Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá.

1989      “Doce Escultores Colombianos, Materiales e Ideas”. Cámara de Comercio de Cali.

1990      “II Bienal de Arte”. Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá.

1991      “100 obras de la Colección,”. Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali. “Doce escultores Colombianos Pequeño Formato”. Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali. 1992      “América Novia Del Sol”. Museo Real de Bellas Artes, Amberes, Belgium.

1993     “Pulsiones”. Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali. “Degas en el Trópico”. Museo de Arte Universidad Nacional, Bogotá.

1994      “XXXV Salón Nacional de Artistas”. Santa Fe de Bogotá.

1995      “Arte para Bogotá”. Galería Santa Fe, Bogotá.

1997      “Imaginación y Fantasía”. Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali. “Festival Internacional de Arte”. Medellín.

1998      “Fragilidad”. Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional, Bogotá. “Piezas de Caza”. Espacio Vacío, Bogotá. “VI Bienal de Arte”. MAMBO, Bogotá.

1999      “El Traje del Emperador”. Galería Santa Fé, Bogotá. “Boceto para una Tarjeta Postal”. Fundación Alzate Avedaño, Bogotá.

2001      “1930-2001: Odisea de un Espacio". Galería Valenzuela Klenner, Bogotá. “Flores del Mal”, “Hongos”, “ Voladores”. Espacio Vacío, Bogotá. 2013       “Contraexpediciones”. Museo de Antioquia, Medellín.

2014      “Basurero Utópico”. Instituto de Visión, Bogotá.

2015      “Retrospectiva”. La sucursal, Cali.

2016 Bienal de Sao Paulo- "Incerteza Viva"