LAURA CAÑAS /CV/

Artist and journalist. Printmaking is her main medium. She experiments with different techniques and materials, developing her own method of production. Therefore some of her prints are single edition, working from a different printmaking concept. Her work is influenced by journalism, as a way to investigate reality around her, and comics, as a way to create visual narratives. Her work reflects contrasts between elements, such as exploring the city and nature, social dynamics and femininity. As a journalist, she has worked in archiving and publishing.


EDUCATION

Bachelor in Journalism 2016, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín, Colombia

Certificate in Illustration as Art and Work, 2020, Tragaluz Editores y Comfenalco, Colombia

Certificate in Deepening Illustration, 2021, Tragaluz Editores y Comfenalco, Colombia

EXPERIENCIA LABORAL 

2019      Blast Magazine | Journalist
          revistablast.com/author/laura

2019      Ver con los oídos en pandemia (See with the eyes on the pandemic) | Creator
          instagram.com/ver_con_los_oidos_en_pandemia
 

2019      Cosméticos Marylin | Social media manager
          instagram.com/marylincosmeticos - contenido publicado del 13 de febrero al 3 octubre del 2019

2018      Historias de buses (Stories of busses)| Creator 
          historiasdebuses.hotglue.me

2018      Suspicions of a file | Archive assistant | Project of ‘Algo Está Pasando’ (Something’s Happening)                  collective

2017      Open Data Medellín | Collaborator
          medium.com/@datosabiertosmedellin

2016      Foundation Viztaz | Archive assistant
          viztaz.org/albumes 

2014      Q’haydeNuev9 | Journalist
EXPOSICIONES GRUPALES


2020        Expedición San Ignacio (San Ignacio Expedition), Comfama San Ignacio, Medellín, Col

2019        Grabadores de Domingo La Salida (Sunday Printmakers La Salida), Benito Garage Gallery, Medellín, Col

2019        Digna Rebeldía (Dignified Rebellion), Casa Benet Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Br

2019        VI Salón de Grabado (Sixth Printmakers Salon), Museo el Castillo, Medellín, Col

2018        I Encuentro de artistas grabadores (First Meeting of Printmaking Artists), Medellín, Col

2018        Fototropismos Salón Gif, Casa N.N., Medellín, Col

2017        IV Exposición Internacional de Gráfico (Fourth International Graphic Exhibit), Taller La Huella,                    Floridablanca, Col

2017        La Chimenea, Residencia Por Estos Días, Medellín, Col

2017        II Exposición Grupo de retrato (Second Group Exhibit of Portraiture), Residencia Taller 7, Med, Col

2016        Satélite, Casa Redonda, Medellín, Col

2013        I Exposición Grupo de retrato (First Group Exhibit of Portraiture), Residencia Taller 7, Medellín, Col


RESIDENCIES

2019        Lengua Negra, Medellín, Col

ART GROUPS PARTICIPATION


2019 - Ongoing         Grupo de Grabadores de Domingo (Sunday Printmakers La Salida)

2017 - Ongoing         Laboratorio de historieta La Chimenea (Comic Lab La Chimenea)

2012 - Ongoing         Grupo de Retrato de los viernes (Friday Portraiture Group)

AWARDS

2021        Creativity in Public Spaces, Culture Secretary of Medellín, Col

2020        Emerging Artist Grant, Culture Secretary of Medellín, Col

2019        Blind Date, Creative Grant from Ministry of Culture of Colombia and Toronto Comic Arts Festival

PROJECTS 

2018 - Present   Absolute zero (Ongoing)
                 Investigation of archive and academia to map out the intersections of art and communication.
                 absolutezero.hotglue.me

2020             Máscaras Emerging Artist Grant, Culture Secretary of Medellín, Col

                 Máscaras is a series of eleven large prints measuring 50cm by 70cm. They narrate in a visual-                       poetry the relations between the feminine, violence, and Colombia’s reality. This is done through                   associating graphic elements with repetition, transparencies, superpositions, cut-outs, and other                   techniques. The graphic figures represent women’s bodies, elements from the city and countryside,                   maps, and aspects of Catholicism.
                 https://lauraca-as.github.io/mascaras

2019             Blind Date 2019. Creative Grant from Ministry of Culture of Colombia and Toronto Comic Arts                         Festival
                 Comic created between the artists Karen Shangguan (Vancouver) and Laura Cañas (Medellín). Two                       characters cross an intermediate imaginary city between Vancouver and Medellín, based on what the                   artists shared about their respective cities. We explored the borders that separate and connect                     us. It was a part of the special projects and programs of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival.
                 blind-date-comic.hotglue.me

2018             Sospechas de un archivo (Suspicions of a file) | Archive Assistant

                 Project of ‘Algo Está Pasando’ (Something’s Happening) collective. A digital archive of projects                   that won the Open Call of Art and Culture of the Secretary of Culture of Medellín from 2004-2018.                   Participated in the archive’s creation and structure, and in the consultation and systemazation                     of information.



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