Margarita Sánchez Urdaneta
CV

Education

2015-2014 Whitney ISP Studio Program, The Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY. 2014 MFA Fine Arts, Parsons The New School For Design, New York, NY.

Senior Thesis: Alas We are Extinguished. A Short Essay on The Politics of Mourning (Essay). 2012 Journalism Specialist, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá D.C., Colombia.
2009 Bachelor of Visual Arts, With an Emphasis in Audiovisual Expression,

Exhibitions

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá D.C., Colombia.
Senior Thesis: Silentes/Silenced, The Skin as a Palimpsest of Pain (Essay).

Solo and Two-person Exhibitions

2017 Roger Kausch and Margarita Sánchez Urdaneta. Slag Gallery. New York, NY. (Upcoming) 2016 Disappeared. María Margarita Sánchez U. and Alex Yudzon. SITE 57, New York, NY.
2015 Extracted Architecture. María Margarita Sánchez U. and Logan Lape. Site-specific projects for

Sierra Nevada College’s Streamline Mobile Gallery onsite at the University of California,

Berkeley’s, Sagehen Creek Field Station. Truckee, CA.
2009 Silentes. (Solo). Solar Proyectos y Procesos, LaLocalidad Gallery. Curated by Ana María Lozano.

Bogotá D.C., Colombia.
Parajes. María Margarita Sánchez U. and Viviana Alfonso. LA Galería, Contemporary Art, Bogotá D.C., Colombia.
Fifteen Black and White Untitled Photographs. (Solo). La Residencia, Bogotá D.C., Colombia. Untitled. (Solo). Guest portfolio. fotomuseo.org

Collective Exhibitions

2017 Grupo <11 Insights> / Grupo <11 Visiones>. Instituto Cervantes. New York, NY. (Upcoming) Rotative Repository of Latin American Video Art. El Museo del Barrio. New York, NY.

2016 Strange Landscapes. Arlington Arts Center. Arlington, VA. Play - Pulse Miami. Miami, FL.

Rotative Repository of Latin American Video Art. New Latin Wave Festival. New York, NY. Play - Pulse Miami, pre-fair exhibition. Gateway Project Spaces. Newark, NJ.
HALO. Slag Gallery. New York, NY.
Up for Debate. BRIC. New York, NY.

2015 Whitney ISP Studio Program Exhibition. The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. New York, NY. Nepo 5K Don’t Run. NEPO House. Seattle, WA.

Migratory Patterns. CuatroH, New York, NY.

Embodied Place. Garage Door/Tahoe Galleries. Sierra Nevada College, Tahoe, NV. 2014 Before. The Kitchen, New York, NY.

2013 Tracing Erasure. 25 E Gallery. Parsons The New School For Design, New York, NY. Translate. 25 E Gallery. Parsons The New School For Design, New York, NY.

2012 Re-Educate. 25 E Gallery. Parsons The New School For Design, New York, NY. Lineas de tiempo. (Timelines). Club El Nogal. December, Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

2011 Segunda subasta. (Second Auction). LaLocalidad Gallery, Bogotá D.C., Colombia. 2010 80 años. La Javeriana en las artes. BID Headquarters Atrium, Washington D.C. Primera subasta. (First auction). LaLocalidad Gallery. Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

Al fin y al cabo, cosas. (At The End of The Day, Things). Club El Nogal. Bogotá D.C., Colombia. 2009 Fotografía contemporánea. (Contemporary Photography). Museum of Contemporary Art,

Bogotá D.C., Colombia.
El pliegue. (The Fold). Club El Nogal. Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

Some Books Are to Be Tasted... George Rodger Gallery, University of the Creative Arts, Maidstone, England.

Pequeño formato. (Small Format). Club El Nogal. Bogotá D.C., Colombia.
2007 Séptimo Salón Javeriano. (Seventh Javeriano Hall). Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

Collaborative Projects

2015 Migratory Patterns. Co-curated with Paz Ortúzar and Felipe Muhr. CuatroH, New York, NY.
2011-2009 Collective XX(X)Y. Independent group formed to research specific problems adressed by Colombian and

Latin American art. XX(X)Y was invited to speak in several universities, museums and galleries.

Further Studies

2010 Theories of Contemporary Art, Diplomaed, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá D.C., Colombia. 2007 Latin American Art, Our North is The South, Diplomaed, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.

Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

Grants and Academic Achievements

2014-2012 Dean’s Scholarship Award, Parsons The New School for Design. New York, NY. Colfuturo Fellow, Scholarship for Studies Abroad, Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

2011 Fellow Semillero de Investigación, Research and Creation for The Arts. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and El Instituto Pensar, Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

2009 Honorary Mention. Senior Thesis:Silentes/Silenced, The Skin as a Palimpsest of Pain. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

Selected Publications

2017 Metis. UnBag. New York, NY. (Upcoming)
2016 The Dictionary of The Possible. Shifter Magazine. Edited by Sreshta Rit Premnath and Avi Alpert.

New York, NY.
2015 Embodied Place: Observations and Notation. Exhibition Catalogue. Sierra Nevada College.Tahoe, NV. Online

http://issuu.com/snc.mfa-ia/docs/embodied_place
2014 To Rend That Body. I Scarcely Have The Right to Use this Ghostly Verb. Edited by Maricruz Alarcón and Ilyn

Wong. For the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and Parsons Fine Arts. New York, NY.

Before. Exhibition Catalogue. Parsons The New School for Design. New York, NY.
2012 Fisuras del Arte Moderno en Colombia 1960-1979. (Fissures of Modern Art in Colombia 1960-1979).

Author: Carmen Maria Jaramillo; Head Researcher and Editorial Co-ordination: María Margarita Sánchez Urdaneta. ISBN: 978-958-8471-58-7. Bogotá D.C., Colombia.
Jorge Obando. Panorámicas de la modernidad en Colombia. Cuadernos de música, artes visuales y artes escénicas/Journal of Music, Visual Arts and Performing Arts. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Vol. 7. No.1. January 2012. ISSN for print: 1794-6670/ISSN electronic: 2215-9959. Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

2011 Silentes. (Silenced). Author: María Margarita Sánchez Urdaneta. Destiempo libros. ISBN- 978-958-44-5863-6. Bogotá D.C. Colombia.

2010 Silentes, con los epigramas de Francia Elena Goenaga, Ph.D. (Silenced). Magazine Universidad de
Antioquia. Ed. Universidad de Antioquia. ISSN: 0120-2367. V. 302 Fasc.1 December, 2010. Medellin, Colombia.
80 años. La Javeriana en las artes. Exhibition Catalogue. BID Headquarters Atrium, Washington D.C.

2010 Some Books Are to Be Tasted... Exhibition Catalogue. George Rodger Gallery, University of the Creative Arts, Maidstone, England.

2007 Séptimo Salón Javeriano. (Seventh Javeriano Hall). Exhibition Catalogue. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

Selected Lectures & Presentations

2015 Accounts and Forensics. Interview with Thom Donovan. Keynote Speaker The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. New York, NY.

Account. Dictionary of the Possible. Shifter Magazine. Seminar Leader.
Parsons The New School for Design. New York, NY.

Extracted Architecture. Margarita Sánchez Urdaneta and Logan Lape. Seminar Leader.
Unnamed Brooklyn Artist Group. New York, NY.
Artist Talk. Keynote Speaker. 4D Class, professor Shadi Harouni. Parsons The New School for Design.

New York, NY.
2014 To Rend That Body. Keynote Speaker. Fine Arts Symposium. Parsons The New School for Design.

New York, NY.
2011 Montañas, entre el cielo y la tierra./Mountains, Between Heaven and Earth. Keynote Speaker on the series

Paisajes, un modelo para armar./Landscapes, Models to assemble. Planetario Distrital/District planetary, Sala Oriol Rangel. Bogotá D.C., Colombia.
Vender el cuerpo, arte y mercado./ Selling The Body, Art and Market. Invited Speaker. Diplomaed. Theories of Contemporary Art, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

Silentes Project. Skin as a Palimpsest of Pain. Keynote Speaker. Diplomaed. Theories of Contemporary Art,

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá D.C., Colombia.
2010 Que manera de Queererse... Art and Gender. Keynote Speaker. Universidad Pedagógica

Nacional. Bogotá D.C., Colombia.
Faux Queens. Keynote Speaker. Theories of Contemporary Art, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
Bogotá D.C., Colombia.
Repeat After Me. The Politics of Postmodern Parody. Keynote Speaker on the series Appropriation, Piracy, Quotes and Art. Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá D.C., Colombia.
National Identity and The Fair Sex in Colombian Art. Keynote Speaker on Cátedra San Pedro Alejandrino, 200 years of history. This event was part of the celebration of the Bicentennial of Independence of Colombia. Quinta San Pedro Alejandrino. Santa Marta, Colombia.

2009 Artist Talk. Keynote Speaker. LaLocalidad Gallery. Bogotá D.C., Colombia.
Artist Talk. Keynote Speaker. Visual Arts Program. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá D.C., Colombia. Repeat After Me. The Politics of Postmodern Parody. / Repeat After Me. La politica de la parodia postmoderna. Invited Speaker for the Exhibition Casa de Citas. Regarding Appropriation, Piracy, Quotes and Art. Museo de Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia.
El cuerpo con dolor en el arte contemporáneo./The Body in Pain and Contemporary Art. Invited Speaker. Latin American Congress of Pain ACED.Bogotá D.C., Colombia.
Parajes. Keynote Speaker. María Margarita Sánchez Urdaneta and Viviana Alfonso. LA Galería, Contemporary Art. Bogotá D.C., Colombia.
Que manera de Queererse... Art and Gender. Keynote Speaker. Galería Cu4rto Nivel. Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

Contributions to other Artists Proyects

2015 A Sea Change Into Lands Rich and Strange by Amy Balkin.
Reader at the performative reading of the 2014 IPCC report. Abrons Arts Center. New York, NY.

2014 Future Perfect by Cassandra Guan. Future Perfect was presented as part of the Abrons Arts Center’s year-long collaboration with PARMER. New York, NY.

New York, U.S. – January 2017