Miguel Rojas Sotelo

Colombia

Miguel Rojas Sotelo es curador, artista, documentalista y activista mediático. Es PhD en historia del arte contemporáneo y teoría crítica cultural de la Universidad de Pittsburgh (2007-08). Ha trabajado como director de Artes Visuales del Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia (1997-2001), docente en la Universidad del Rosario, Escuela Superior de Estudios Audiovisuales y la Universidad de Pittsburgh. Como curador independiente y gestor cultural ha organizado un gran número de exposiciones de arte contemporáneo, eventos académicos, ciclos de cine y documental y eventos mediáticos, así mismo ha trabajado en el planeamiento, desarrollo y aplicación de políticas culturales para el sector artístico en su país.

Miguel Rojas Sotelo ostenta título de Maestro en Artes Visuales de la universidad de los Andes (Bogotá), especialización en administración cultural de la universidad del Rosario (Bogotá) y maestría en arte moderno y contemporáneo de la Universidad de Pittsburgh (USA) con certificaciones doctorales en estudios culturales y estudios Latinoamericanos de la misma universidad.

Como investigador ha trabajado en la escritura y re-escritura de la historia del arte moderno y contemporáneo en Colombia. Ha publicado ensayos en revistas, libros, catálogos de exhibición y foros de discusión sobre diferentes aspectos de la historia y teoría cultural de América Latina. Rojas Sotelo dirige un ciclo de cine de ficción y documental y es co-productor y presentador de un programa cultural (en radio y en la web).

Miguel L. Rojas Sotelo

2211 Hillsborough Rd. (3017) Durham, NC. 27705      Mobil (412) 478 6875      rojaszotelo@gmail.com / mir6@pitt.edu

2008                       PhD. Contemporary Art and Cultural Theory

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH. Department of History of Art and Architecture

PhD Certifications in Cultural Studies & Latin American Studies

2004                       M.A in History of Art and Architecture

                               UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH. Department of History of Art and Architecture                                                                 Certificate in Cultural and Latin American Studies                                                    Pittsburgh, USA

1996                       Graduate Certificate in Cultural Policy and Management (no title)

UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO, Department of Philosophy                                   Bogotá, Colombia

1995                        MSF. Master in Visual Arts

UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES. Department of Visual Arts. 

                               (Sub-Major in History and Philosophy)                                                                 Bogotá, Colombia

Forthcoming.  Book: Cultural Maps, Networks, and Flows: The history and impact of the Havana Biennale, 1984-2007. 2008. (300 pages)

“Caminar, Explotar, Olvidar” (Spanish version of Walks, Blasts, Shots, Squats)

National Criticism Award, 2007. Ministry of Culture. Bogotá, Colombia: Uniandes Press, 2007. (25 pages)

“Chimeras of Today and Corporeal Minds”

Nuevo Arte InteractivA’07 Merida, Mexico: CartoDigital, Ayuntamiento de Mérida, Yucatán, 2007 (11 pages)

“Una Idea a tres voces” (A Thought in Third Voice)

Nuevo Arte InteractivA’07 Merida, Mexico: CartoDigital, Ayuntamiento de Mérida, Yucatán, 2007 (11 pages)

“Our Space is Our Time: report on Latin American new artistic practices”

It is a preliminary report on collective and new-media practices in different countries of Latin America. The text describes and shows how collective and socially engage artistic practices are at the fore of art production in the region. Especial for Documenta12 Magazines; published by Disfagia Magazine, Toronto. Canada. http://www.e-fagia.org / 2006 (26 pages)

“Jaime Iregui de los orígenes y el destino de <esferapública.org>” (Jaime Iregui and the Origins of <esferapública.org>) On the constitution of creative networks and alternative spaces of criticism and social participation of the arts. Especial for Documenta12 Magazines http://www.e-fagia.org / esferapublic.org / 2006 (14 pages)

 “To Build a New Territory, Fabling acts: Art, body, thought”

The text explores the uses of performance, bodily actions, and visual documentation as part of  Colombian contemporary art, in particular performance art, and the re-foundation of the nation. The social, historical, critical, and symbolic responsibility of the arts in a country ripped out after 50 years of internal conflict. 

Proceedings for the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York – Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Download version: http://hemi.nyu.edu/bb/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=459&highlight=#459 / 2005 (26 pages)

“Del corral a la Corraleja: Sobre arte y Amistad” (From the Corral to the Arena: On art and friendship)

This is a catalog prologue that tells the story of a group of unionized artists that transform the artistic landscape of their region by regaining control over cultural policy through social action and educative programs. Memorias del Octavo Salón Regional de Artistas de la Costa Norte (Catalog). Sincelejo & Bogota: Ed. Banco de la República, Asociación de Artistas Plásticos de Sucre. 2003. (10 pages)

“Deber Ser, Deber Estar” (To Be, To Inhabit)

A foreword text that introduces the relevance of artistic research as part of Cultural policy in contemporary Colombia, it presents five research-curatorial experiences in a new model of artistic representation for the country. Book title: Proyecto Pentágono: Investigations about Contemporary Art in Colombia – Bogotá: Ministry of Culture & Bogotá Institute of Culture and Tourism, IDCT. 2000. (20 pages)   

2002-2007              UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH                                                                              Pittsburgh, USA

                               Department of History of Art and Architecture

·         Comparative Modernisms (Fall 2005 – Summer session 2007)

·         Introduction to Contemporary Art (Summer 2006)

·         Introduction to Modern Art (Summer session 2005)

·         TA. Introduction to Modern Art (Professor Barbara McCloskey, Spring 2005)

·         TA. Introduction to Contemporary Art (Professor Terry Smith, Spring 2004)

1998-1999               UNIVERSIDAD EXTERNADO DE COLOMBIA                                                          Bogotá, Colombia

Department of Conservation and Restoration - Professor

·          Cultural Management I, II

1995-1998               FUNDACIÓN MANUEL MURILLO TORO,                                                                               Bogotá, Colombia

Superior School of Visual Media – Professor

·         Art History I / Art History II / New Media / New Image Creation Workshop

2007                       - Digital Event, e-fagia Collective                                                                         Toronto, Canada

                               Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD)

Subjectivities, Flows and Cultural Heterogeneity

- Biennale New Art InteractivA’07        

                               Corporeal Minds and Techno Fantasies                                                                Mérida, Mexico

2006                       - Museum of the Universita della Sapieza

Collaboration and Media Art in Latin America &

The Persistence of the Impossible: Contemporary Art from Colombia                 Rome, Italy

                               - CLAS / HAA Colloquium - University of Pittsburgh

Report on Urban Dynamics: 9^th Havana Biennale                                                Pittsburgh, PA

2005                       - Comparative Postcolonialities.  Panel on emergent scholars

 Smuggling Cultures: Body trafficking and artistic agency                                   Pittsburgh, PA

- 5^th Encounter: Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics

Contemporary Indigenous and Community-based Practices                                               Belo Horizonte, Bazil

Building Territory: Fabulist Acts, Performance and Contemporary Nation in Colombia.                     

- Sincelejo Museum of Contemporary Art (MACSI)                                                                             

Museums, Communities and Social Responsibility                                                 Sincelejo, Colombia

2004                       - XXV LASA International. Conference in Latin American Studies

Journey to the Global World                                                                                 Las Vegas, NV

- Graduate Conference in Latin American Social and Public Policy CLAS-PP

                               The Bizarre: Constructions of a Parallel World                                                     Pittsburgh, PA

- Configurations of Power, University of Southern California USC

Graduate Visual Art Symposium. Journey to the Global World                             Los Angeles, CA

2003                       - Symposium in Contemporary Visual Culture. Cornel University                         Ithaca, NY

Modeling Times: Mariko Mori and techno-ideal self-portraits.

                               - East Asian Symposium in Visual Culture  Ohio State University                          Columbus, OH

                               Modeling Times: Mariko Mori & Takashi Murakami portraits of contemporary Japan

2007                       Curator. 1^st Latino Film and Video Festival, ACL                                                 Pittsburgh, USA

                               Invited Curator.  Digital Event 07. e-fagia collective                                       Toronto, Canada   

                               Invited Curator.  Biennial New Art InteractivA07                                                            Merida, Mexico

2005-07                  Research Assistant. Terry Smith. University of Pittsburgh                                            Pittsburgh, USA

                                               Co-Curator. Latin American Film Series “Amigos del Cine Latino Americano”

                               Weakly screening and forum – 2004-2007

2004-05                                  Assistant Curator. Out of Time; Out of Place; Out of China: Reinventing Chinese Tradition in a New Century. UAG – University of Pittsburgh. October –February. 2005                             Pittsburgh, USA

2003                                       Curator. SUR/ Interventions in space (alternative space)                                

                               Curator Cities in Suspense. Video Art                                                                Pittsburgh, USA

2000-01                  General Director- Proyecto Pentágono - (National tour exhibitions)

Exhibitions: “Materialismos Imágenes en 3D”, “Actos de Fabulación”, “Espacios  Entretejidos”.

Museum of Art Pereira, Museum of Contemporary Art Bogotá , La Tertulia Museum of Modern Art Cali, MOMA Medellín, Bolivarian Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Marta,  MOMA Bucaramanga, ASAB Bogotá.

                Curator Primeros Premios (tour Exhibition)         MOMA Bogotá                       

Co-Coordinator Colombian Cultural Participation 2000 World Expo                 Hannover, Germany                              Curator for Colombia VI International Havana Biennial 

                               Wifredo Lam Center for Contemporary Art                                                          Havana, Cuba

1998                       General Director                37 Salón Nacional de Artistas (National Exhibition of Contemporary Art)

Co-curator. Pabellón Ex-tensiones. Ministry of Culture– Bilbao Viscaya Bank     Bogotá, Colombia

                               Curator for Colombia. 24^th Sao Paulo Biennial                                                    Sao Paulo, Brazil

1997-98                           General Coordinator, Curator and Researcher

CD Rom The History of the National Exhibitions in Colombia (Educative package with an itinerant exhibition).

Curator “Salon Regional de Artistas Bogotá” Estación de la Sabana (Central Train Station)

                                                                                                                             Bogotá, Colombia

1/1/98 – 5/30/01    MINISTERIO DE CULTURA DE COLOMBIA (Ministry of Culture - Colombia)  Visual Arts Director. Bogotá, Colombia

1/1/98- 12/15/99    UNIVERSIDAD EXTERNADO DE COLOMBIA. Department of Conservation and Restoration - Instructor Professor / Cultural Managment I – II Bogotá, Colombia

8/1/96 – 12/15/99 FUNDACIÓN MANUEL MURILLO TORO (Superior Academy of Visual Media) Bogotá, Colombia. Instructor Professor -Art History I / Art History II / New Media / New Image Creation workshop, Bogotá, Colombia

1/1/95 – 12/30/97 COLCULTURA (Colombian Institute of Culture) Plastic Arts Assistant & Coordinator. Bogotá, Colombia 

2007-2008              - Andrew Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation completion

                               - Cultural Studies Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (declined)

2006                       - Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), Research Grant                                             

- Friends of Frick Fine Arts Research Travel Grant                                                             

2005                       - Vice-Provost Travel Grant, Faculty of Art and Sciences                                   

2004                       - Wilkinson Travel Grant.                                                                                     

2002-2003              - Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Scholarship                                                

2007                       - National Criticism Award, finalist. Ministry of Culture                                         Bogotá, Colombia

2006                       - New Persons Award in Academic and Media Activism

Thomas Merton Center (Shared)                                                                          Pittsburgh, USA

2005                       - Member of the Jury Prize New Practices in Visual Arts, Minister of Culture       Bogotá, Colombia

1998/2000              - Member of Carolina Oramas Fellowships Committee

(For International Art Studies) ICETEX                                                                Bogotá, Colombia

1993                       - Second Award, III Salón de Arte Joven (Young Artists National Exhibition)

Galería Santa Fe del Planetario Distrital                                                               Bogotá, Colombia

Solo Exhibitions

1995                       “Color’s Bogotá” Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Fundation                                         Bogotá

1994                       “Camuflado” G. Wiedemann Center of Contemporary Art                                   Bogotá

1993                                   “Troncalismo” Santa Fe Gallery                                                                             Bogotá

                               “Parias” Espacio Satiro – Art Gallery                                                                     Bogotá

Group Exhibitions

1994  “Arte sonoro” Galería Santa Fe del Planetario Distrital, Bogotá / Proyecto “TOPOS” (sobre arte público) Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Bogotá / “V Salón Nacional de Arte Joven” Galería Santa Fe del Planetario Distrital, Bogotá / 1995 “1ra Bienal de Venecia” Barrio Venecia, Bogotá / 1996 “Homenaje a Pedro Manrrique Figueroa” Galería Santa Fe del Planetario Distrital, Bogotá / “Martes Colectivo” Bienal de Gráfica contemporánea, Casa de las Americas, La Habana. Cuba / “Salón de Agosto” Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño. Bogotá / 1997 “Imágenes Bajo Tierra” -Subterranea- Sótanos de la Jimenez, Bogotá / 1998 “Ex-tensiones” Artes Viscerales producciones. Corferias, Bogotá / Concierto -Artes Viscerales producciones- Plaza de Usaquen, Bogotá / 1999 “Traducción Simultánea” Espacio Vacio, Bogotá / “1er Festival de artes electronicas” (selección alterna) Artes Viscerales Producciones en el Laboratorio de Artistas – MAMBO, Bogotá / “Viart” (festival de video latinoamericano) Caracas, Venezuela / 2000 “Nuevas Obras en la colección del MAM de Cartagena” Museo de Arte Moderno de Cartagena, Cartagena./ 2002 “Five Collages of Pedro Martinez Figueroa” Temple University Gallery. Philadelphia, PA. 2007 Bienal de Nuevo Arte Interactiva. Mérida, MX. Digital Event, e-fagia. Toronto, CA.

Films and Videos

1, @ndalusi@, the Baglady. 2007, 30min (Spanish & English)

Paolo Lugari: A renaissance man. 2007, 25 min (English)

Primeros Premios Salones Nacionales de Artistas 1948-1998. 2000, 55min (Spanish)

2001-2007           Producer and Co-Host, Latin American Radio Magazine.                    Pittsburgh

                        wrct 88.3 fm  www.wrct.org & wpts 92.1 www.wpts.org

2002-2004           Producer and Co-Host, Onda Latina wedo 103.9 am.                                  McKeesport, PA

2002                      Co-founder colombiaenpitssburgh.org                                           Pittsburgh

                        College Art Association (CAA)

                        Latin American Studies Association (LASA)

                        Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS)

                        Cultural Studies Association

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