
THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT ME
The process that underpins my work is that of drawing and the construction and reconstruction of objects.
I generate a series of narratives, taking as my starting point the stories and personal experiences through which I explore the world around me. Driven by an inclination towards and concern about understanding my body in light of the intimate and the feminine, I begin with a series of preliminary investigations, in which I make great leaps, building and rebuilding objects, which eventually dissolve.
I consistently referred and still today address my body as site from which all of experiences originate, and by approaching it. I build different life systems functioning as referents to the feminine world. In earlier projects I also spoke of the physical body as a container but also as fragmented surface dislocated into electronic circuits and presented in objects which became the indicator of the presence.
In 2016, I was part of a group of selected artists which participated in a workshop titled “La Naturaleza del Cuerpo”. This experience lead to me to introduce the body as an entity connecting the two-dimensional work with the viewer. To understand my own physicality within a complex repetition of gestures to create large scale drawings, allowed me simultaneously to access a particular and personal experience with time and its unique relationship with the action of drawing.
“Infinito” (2018), the largest project within my practice, is the result of three intense years of research where repetition and movement are used to elaborate an intricate visual/graphic vocabulary. Due to the scale of the work, the accumulation of gestures, becomes either a landscape or an augmented view of a micro-organism surrounded by empty space or white areas, that metaphorically speaking, allow the viewer to travel between two related worlds: Topography and biology.
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STUDIES
1987-1992
Visual Artist
Universidad de loa Andes
Bogotá, Colombia
2015
Body Workshop "The Nature of the Body"
directed by María José Arjona in FLORA ars + natura (November).
Bogotá, Colombia
2014
NC lab, creative thinking laboratory (September).
Bogotá, Colombia
See more ... 2000-2002 1999-2000 1998 1991 1990
Scenography Course with J.C. Serroni
Sao Paulo, Brasil
Scenography University of Sao Paulo, Cyro del Nero
Sao Paulo, Brasil
Graphic arts
Rhode Island school of desing
Rhode Island, U.S.A.
Alternative methods and materials in art
The Museum School of Arts
Boston, Massachussets, U.S.A
Photogravure and four color separation
Camnitzer studio
Lucca, Italia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
MOLAA, MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART, CA, USA. GRÁFICA AMÉRICA
March 3, 2019 - September 1, 2019
Process of the series "Flocks" Wisirare. 2019
Mixed Technique, Digital, Lithography, Screen Print, Embossing.
Taller Arte Dos Gráfico
Bogotá, Colombia
2018
INFINITE
Pinta Miami
December 4-8 | Mana Wynwood
Exhibition copy
Related Group presented one of its latest acquisitions
INFINITE
2017
THIS IS TEMPORARY
La Casita Gallery
FLORA ars+natura
Bogotá, Colombia
2016
FROM THE BONFIRE
Instituto de Visión
Bogotá, Colombia
Desde la Hoguera
From the bonfire
2015
Guest invitation to “AVISTAMIENTO”, “SIGHTING” project directed by the artist Maria José Arjona
FLORA ars+natura
Bogotá, Colombia
See more ... 2014 2013 WAYS OF DOING 2012 2003 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991
Subject to the object
Sincronía, Bogota Art Fair
Avenida de Chile Avenue, Claustro de la Enseñanza
OF THE SERIES "MACHINES”
Photographs
Local 6, Cali, Colombia
Espacio Alterno Gallery of the Association of graduates of the Universidad de Los Andes
Bogotá, Colombia
MACHINES
Sincronía, Bogota Art Fair
Center for Pastoral Studies
MACHINES Video installation
Casa Cano Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
VERSIONS
Greeley Square Gallery
New York City
WOMEN
Sincelejo, Colombia
LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN IN ART
The Hispanic and Latin American Museum
Miami, Florida
CORFERIAS XXXVI NATIONAL ARTISTS SALON
Bogotá, Colombia
WOMEN AT THE EDGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation
Bogotá, Colombia
XXXV NATIONAL ARTISTS SALON
Corferias. Bogotá, Colombia
VI REGIONAL ARTISTS SALON
Zone 6
Neiva, Colombia
II YOUNG ART SALON
District Planetarium
Bogotá, Colombia
I YOUNG ART SALON
District Planetarium
Bogotá, Colombia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 INFINITO FLORA ars+natura Bogotá, Colombia 2016 LA MUJER TORTUGA Gabinete #16, FLORA ars+natura Bogotá, ColombiaANA MARÍA DEVISSee more ...
“SUJETOALOBJETO” DE ANA MARÍA DEVIS2006 VENTA DE TALLER II Décadas en el Arte Bogotá, Colombia 2003 PARTITURA, Libro de Arte y Exposición Taller Arte Dos Gráfico Galería Sextante Bogotá, Colombia 1998 Y DIOS CREO A LA MUJER Galería Espacio Alterno, Uniandinos Bogotá, Colombia 1991 LA MUJER COMO OBJETO DEL DESEO Galería Espacio Alterno, Aexandes Bogotá, Colombia
AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND ARTISTIC RESIDENCES
2019 Fountainhead residency Miami, Florida, U.S.A. 2016-2017 Residencia media beca Escuela FLORA ars+natura Bogotá, ColombiaBogotá1995 PRIMER PREMIO, VII SALÓN REGIONAL DE ARTISTAS Zona 4 Ibagué, Colombia MENCIÓN ESPECIAL, III CONCURSO NACIONAL DE PINTURA Banco Ganadero. Bogotá, Colombia
COLLECTIONS
INFINITO Related Group , Pamm museum Miami, Florida, U.S.A.PUBLICATIONS
2003 PARTITURA, Libro de Artista (500 ejemplares) Editado por María Eugenia Niño y asistido por Carlos Bernal (montaje y desarrollo). Taller Arte Dos Gráfico Galería Sextante Bogotá, Colombia 2018 Cuadernos FLORA ars+natura #3- Ana María Devis Infinito Una Publicación de FLORA ars+natura (300 ejemplares) Editado por José Roca y coordinado por Mariela Romina Textos de Maria José Arjona, José Roca, Ana María Devis y Maria Clara Figueroa Bogotá, Colombia PDF Notebook publication FLORA ars + naturaREVIEWS AND PRESS
2020 “The work of Ana María Devis:A saman, a rain tree, stars in her fairy tale.”, by Fernando Gómez Echeverri, Culture Editor. EL TIEMPO October 10, 2020. [visual-link-preview type=”external” url=”https://www.eltiempo.com/cultura/arte-y-teatro/cultura-la-artista-plastica-ana-maria-devis-presenta-su-obra-sobre-la-pandemia-542619″ title=”Ana María Devis: un samán protagoniza su cuento de hadas”] https://www.eltiempo.com/cultura/arte-y-teatro/cultura-la-artista-plastica-ana-maria-devis-presenta-su-obra-sobre-la-pandemia-542619“Infinite”, Cartographies of desire, written by María Elvira Ardila within her editorial column, Meninas in front of the mirror, Culture section, EL ESPECTADOR, September 24, 2018. https://www.elespectador.com/noticias/noticias-de-cultura/infinito-cartografias-del-deseo-articulo-814070 TURTLE WOMAN, article written by Ana María Devis in FLORAE # 3 (Travel and Drift), Editorial FLORA ars + natura, Edited by José Roca and Manuel Kalmanovitz, September 2017