Come with us to tour Los Tiempos del Aire together with the artist Cristina Umaña Durán, who will share with the attendees the processes and ideas behind this installation.
Join us as we explore the exhibition Los Tiempos del Aire together with the artist Cristina Umaña Durán, who will share with the public the processes and ideas behind this installation of textile structures, conceived as monumental drawings. This meeting will be a unique opportunity to talk with the artist, ask questions and reflect on time, body, drawing and scale.
This visit is part of the exhibition's activities Los Tiempos del Aire of Cristina Umaña Durán.
She is an artist who works with textiles, drawing, writing, sculpture, installation and performance. Her work imagines the inner human body, exploring how it digests emotions, perceives time and experiences grief, in a paradox between play and pain.
She began her studies in Art History and Visual Arts at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, and completed them at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she obtained the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2017. It is part of the 2024 generation of the SOMA Educational Program in Mexico City. Her work has been exhibited in Colombia, Mexico and the United States, including Espacio Odeón (Bogotá), ARTBO - Bogotá International Art Fair (Bogotá), SOMA (Mexico City), ACME Hall No. 10 and No. 11 (Mexico City), Croma (Mexico City), FORO.SPACE (Bogotá), Casas Riegner Gallery (Bogotá), Policroma Gallery (Medellín), Centro Cultural Plaza Fátima (Monterrey), Ely Center of Contemporary Art (New Haven) and the Cabañas Museum (Guadalajara) to name a few.
Cristina has been nominated for the Emerging Artist Award of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (2025), the Sara Modiano Foundation Award (2023) and the Colsanitas Young Art Award (2020). She has participated in residencies such as Spudnik Press Cooperative (Chicago, 2017), Proyecto Nave (Ecuador, 2019), ACRE Residency (Wisconsin, 2022, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Nebraska, 2025) and Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists' Residency (Michigan, 2025); and will now be part of the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture residencies (Maine, 2026) and Coordinate Residency (Buenos Aires, 2026).
She lives and works in Mexico City.
Arte Abierto inicia su programa de mediación y comunicación educativa 2022 con una conversación entre la investigadora y escritora Irmgard Emmelhainz y Sebastien Noel de Troika, tomando la exposición No Sound of Water como punto de partida. Abordarán los temas presentes en este proyecto, como el Antropoceno, y harán diferentes lecturas y cuestionamientos (Materialist Realism / Philosophy of Matter / Art as Image).
Irmgard Emmelhainz transmitirá en vivo desde No Sound of Water en Arte Abierto.
