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= Nirma Zarate = Nirma Zarate (1936-1999) was a Colombian artists, professor and researcher most famously known for her abstract works. Zarate was born in Bogota, Colombia and studied art from the 1950s through the 1960s. She began her studies in art at the University of Los Andes in 1955. She went on to graduate from the School of Fine Arts in National University. She began with abstract art in her hometown where her work flourished, then moved on to Pop Art. Her first exposition was as a student in Bogota and after she transitioned over to the United States, she settled in Washington where she was chosen by Union Panamericana De Washington to participate in an exposition of great Colombian art. Later in her career, Zarate was known to be a part of the "Taller 4 Rojo". Nirma used her artwork to show that the social is personal and therefore politically important. Her work is one of many artists that expose stereotypes and give identity and a voice to historically marginalized and misrepresented groups such as transgender peoples, prostitutes, indigenous people, the disabled, and those who were victims and deliberately targeted by dictatorships and other repressive regimes.

Education
Nirma studied art from the 1950s through the 1960s. She began her studies in art at the University of Los Andes in 1955. She went on to graduate from the School of Fine Arts at the National University of Colombia.

Artwork
'[http://www.banrepcultural.org/warhol/colombia/zarate.html#artista Vuelta a Colombia... en bicicleta, 1968]'

Nirma Zárate

Pintura, acrílico y óleo sobre tela

200 x 163 cm

Colección Banco de la República

registro  0289

Exhibition
1964 Nirma Zarate of Colombia: Oils, Organization of American States, Washington, DC

1968 Nirma Zarate, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota

1986 Huellas papel hecho a mano: Nirma Zárate, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota

1989 Fibras, Centro de Arte, Medellin, Colombia

1992 Atmosferas andinas, Museo Bolivariano de Arte Contemporaneo, Santa Marta, Colombia

Collections
One particularly strong political work, Aggression to Vietnam, by Zárate and Arango was added to the Google Arts Project, an online art archive of famous works, in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art Bogota (MAC) in 2017 as part of a partnership to upload famous and highly sought after art works into an online library available to users all around the world.

Taller 4 Rojo[edit]
The Taller 4 Rojo, who believed in political expression and resistance through graphic arts and teaching, was originally founded by Zárate and her husband Diego Arango after studying graphic arts at the Royal Academy in London. Specifics on when and how the group was actually founded is a mystery as every artist has a different version, with some saying 1971 and others 1972. The group slowly grew and included other artists such as Carlos Granada and Jorge Mora. The group later gained momentum and grew to include other artists as members of the board, which included Zárate, Arango, Jorge Mora, Jorge Villegas, Germán Rojas, Umberto Giangrandi, Carlos Granada, and Fabio Rodriguez. The key to the groups growth and success at the time, especially in a hostile political environment, was that the artists themselves had an interdisciplinary approach in which they created the art, taught others how to create art, and were politically involved themselves. The group was a safe haven and place where everyone had a voice and these voices were expressed through prints on postcards, pamphlets and publications for social movements. Classes were offered in order to teach community members how to print and become involved. The school was called Taller Escuela de Artes Gráficas 4 Rojo, and two courses were offered in graphic arts. The first was a beginners course and the second was an advanced course mostly for college art students but open to those with enough skill.