Award Winner Artecámara 2024
// Visual artist
// March 2025 resident fellow
// Professor at the School of Visual Arts, National University of Colombia
Photo: Sebastian Bright
Vanessa's creative practice involves the act of leaving a mark and investigates the female corporeal presence in the micropolitics of everyday life, history and labour. These concepts have been addressed in media such as sculpture, installation, performance and printmaking.
Vanessa Nieto has a Master's degree in Fine Arts with an emphasis on Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design (2017) and a Master's degree in Fine Arts from the National University of Colombia (2012). She is currently a professor at the School of Plastic and Visual Arts at the National University of Colombia.
She has been awarded scholarships and grants, including: the Fulbright-MinCultura scholarship for artists (2015); the ICETEX Young Talent Artists Scholarship to study printmaking at The Art Students League of New York (2010 and 2015); the International Circulation Scholarship, awarded by the Ministry of Culture as part of the National Incentives Programme (2018), and the incentive for the acquisition of work within the REACTIVARTE programme (2021). In 2024 she received first prize at the 7th FUGA Visual Arts Biennial, the Artecámara Prize (Artbo) and a mention in the 98th International Print Competition of The Print Center, Philadelphia.
Vanessa has participated in group graphic art exhibitions at national and international level, including the International Print Center (IPCNY) in New York, the Bumpodo gallery in Tokyo, Japan, and the Graphic Art Biennial. She has participated in graphic art group shows at national and international level, including the International Print Center (IPCNY) in New York, the Bumpodo gallery in Tokyo, Japan, the Sarcelles Graphic Arts Biennial in France and the Real Fábrica de Tapices in Madrid, Spain. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions such as Vestigium (2015) at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bogotá, Soft Power (2019) at Producciones del Espacio, Bucaramanga; Lechos (2020); Mudar (2022) at Galería 12:00, and Murmurar (2024) at the Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation - FUGA.
El Boga Art Residency
Continuing projects such as Entre líos y ríos and Murmurar, the creative processes at Casa Taller El Boga will be based on the relationship with the body, materials, trades and their link with the Magdalena River. Developing a new body of sculptural and performative work, a dialogue will be established with the filigree and carpentry trades, typical of Mompox, to create watermarks.
From a technical point of view, these marks correspond to images formed by differences in thickness in the process of forming a sheet of handmade paper. In turn, they constitute a form of filigree that allows the generation of marks visible against the light on different types of paper. In this process, the materiality of handmade paper will be explored as a support and revealer of images. Starting from the collection and transformation of plant fibres from the surrounding marshes and bodies of water, triggering questions will be considered such as: How does the water of the Magdalena River mark us? How do we mark the waters of the Magdalena River? What traces of time does the water reveal to us through the bodies that inhabit it?
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