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 a visual artist working with textiles, drawing, writing, sculpture, installation, and performance. Her work envisions the interior human body, investigating how it digests emotions, perceives time, and navigates grief.
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 earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2017. She was part of the 2026 cohort at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine, USA, and the 2024 SOMA Educational Program in Mexico City.
Her work has been exhibited in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States, with notable exhibitions at Museo Cabañas (Guadalajara, 2026), the Querétaro Museum of Contemporary Art (Querétaro, 2026), Centro Cultural Plaza Fátima (Monterrey, 2025), SOMA (Mexico City, 2024), Espacio Odeón (Bogotá, 2024), ARTBO – Bogotá International Art Fair (2024), Salón ACME No. 10 and No. 11 (Mexico City, 2024 and 2023), Galería Casas Riegner (Bogotá, 2022), and the Ely Center of Contemporary Art (New Haven, 2018), among others.
She has been nominated for the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Emerging Artist Award (2025), the Sara Modiano Foundation Award (2023), and the Colsanitas Young Art Award (2020). Additionally, 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), Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency (Michigan, 2025), and Coordenadas Residencia (Buenos Aires, 2026).
She currently lives and works in Mexico City.
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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.
