Alejandro Arteaga

I am a Colombian artist passionate about nature and landscape, I appreciate the natural beauty of things and try to capture it in my works. I often go to the forest or the jungle to enrich my mind and learn about new shapes and colors. I am currently living in a small town called Ibague (Colombia) which is located in the central Andes mountains,

I was always drawn to the natural world and over time I became an amateur nature photographer and began to focus on the landscape in my paintings. I have visited many regions of my country and seen exceptional places and I hope to be able to share and show some of what I have been able to see and feel

For more than 10 years both self taught and from the hand of great masters of my region such as Alfredo Araujo Santoyo and Song Xinru with whom I had the fortune to learn many techniques of drawing, painting and sculpture.

I also studied for two years in "academia Fábula" in Bogota who had a high quality art program and great teachers.

Over time I have improved my work with oil, acrylic, soft pastels and watercolor which are most common mediums I use.

“Premio de Pintura Julio Fajardo”, Museo de Arte del Tolima, 2011

“XI Premio Barrio Bienal”, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá MAMBO, Biblioteca El Tunal, Biblioteca Virgilio Barco, 2013

“XII Premio Barrio Bienal”, Biblioteca Parque El Tintal, Biblioteca Virgilio Barco, Biblioteca Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Biblioteca Gabriel García Márquez, 2015

XII, XIII muestra regional de artes visuales “Ciudad de Mariquita”, Casa de la Segunda Expedición Botánica, 2015, 2016

“Bienal Lega2”, Wuxn Psyché Galería, 2020