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Doris Salcedo

(1958 - )

Works

Atrabiliarios (Detail)

Country

Colombia


Biography

Doris Salcedo was born in Bogota, Columbia in 1958. She received her BFA from the Universitad de Bogota Jorge Tadeo Lozano (1980) and a MFA in sculpture from New York University (1984). Salcedo received a grant from the Penny McCall Foundation in 1993, and a Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Grant in 1995. Salcedo's work has been seen in solo and group exhibitions around the world, including in Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Australia, and throughout the United States and Europe. Salcedo currently lives and works in Bogotá, Columbia.


Further Reading

Carlos Basualdo, Andreas Huyssen, Nancy Princenthal, Doris Salcedo, Phaidon Press, Londong, 2000.
Olu Oguibe, Fresh Cream, Phaidon Press, London, 2000.
Doris Salcedo, Unland/Doris Salcedo (exh. cat.), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1999.
Jessica Bradley, Andreas Huyssen, Displacements: Miroslaw Balka, Doris Salcedo, Rachel Whiteread (exh. cat.), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1998.
Dan Cameron, Charles Merewether, Doris Salcedo (exh. cat.), The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 1998
David Elliot, Pier Luigi Tazzi, et al, Wounds: between democracy and redemption in contemporary art (exh. cat.) Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1998.
Neal Benezra, Olga M. Viso, Distemper: Dissonant Themes in Art of the 1990s (exh. cat.), Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., in association with D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, New York, 1996.
Louis Grachos, Kathryn Kanjo, Sleeper: Katerina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Guillermo Kuitca, Doris Salcedo (exh. cat.), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 1995.
Madeleine Grynsztejn; with essay by Dave Hickey, About Place: Recent Art of the Americas (exh. cat.), Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1995.
Cocido y Crudo (exh. cat.), essays by Cameron, Fisher, Mosquera, Villaespesa, and Saltz, Museo Nacional Centro de Art Reina Sofia, Madrid, 1994.
International, XLV Biennale di Venezia (exh. cat.), Giancarlo Politi Editore, Milan, 1993.
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