{ Colombia }
{ 1963 }
Wilson Díaz

Wilson Diaz’s work is informed by the complex sociopolitical context of Colombia. His practice includes music, painting, performance, photography, and video. While the range of mediums is broad, Díaz’s oeuvre is unified by his commitment to explore the tensions inerrant within local imaginaries and specifically by interrogating the representation of violence in the mass media. In capturing intimate moments and tracing complex constellations of human and political influence, his art offers persuasive alternatives to conventional perceptions shaped by ideology and propaganda.

Diaz is one of the most relevant artists of Colombia. His work has been a constant influence for local artists, and had help to construct the landscape of contemporary art in the region. His body of work can be read as a non-lineal historical narrative, that exposes the multiple tension, conflicts and believes in a region that can only be explained by the mystics and poetics of art. Through this repetition of form and in a self-reflective exercise constantly present in his practice, Díaz recreates the process of recirculation and appropriation of images. 

( works )
Bonus Track, Amarillismo

Bonus Track, Amarillismo

Amarillismo

Amarillismo

El cactus

El cactus

Sin título

Sin título

Los Ruanetas

Los Ruanetas

Los Tolimenses

Los Tolimenses

Sandwichman is here and there I & II

Sandwichman is here and there I & II

Movement of the liberation of the coca plant

Movement of the liberation of the coca plant

Illustrations for the publication…

Illustrations for the publication…

Sobre la superficie (Fotografia involucrada en un ensamblaje de esta serie)

Sobre la superficie (Fotografia involucrada en un ensamblaje de esta serie)

Insider

Insider

Sementerio

Sementerio

( exhibitions )
Cero Normal

Cero Normal

Paradoxon Spirituale

Paradoxon Spirituale

Caza de Brujas

Caza de Brujas

Formalism of Pirates

Formalism of Pirates

( fairs )
arteBA 2014

arteBA 2014

Frieze New York 2016

Frieze New York 2016

Frieze New York 2021

Frieze New York 2021

( press )
Instituto de Visión Wins the 2021 Frame Stand Prize

Instituto de Visión Wins the 2021 Frame Stand Prize

Art Industry News: The World’s Most Expensive Car Was Just Sold at a Secret Auction for $143 Million + Other Stories

Art Industry News: The World’s Most Expensive Car Was Just Sold at a Secret Auction for $143 Million + Other Stories