Paola Peña Ospina

Paola Peña Ospina is a Sociologist from the University of Antioquia (2009) with a master’s degree in Art History from the University of Salamanca (2012). She works as a researcher, teacher, and independent curator. Her research focus aims to highlight artists and practices that have not been considered in the more official narratives of Art History, as seen in her research projects such as Sobre Arte: Carlos Echeverry y el arte correo (2021) or Al mismo tiempo: historias paralelas del videoarte en Colombia (2019). She has received other recognitions, including the Curatorial Grant (2015) and the Art Criticism Grant (2014) from the Municipality of Medellin. In 2015, she was selected to participate in the curatorial training program of Independent Curators International (Bogotá). In 2014, she was awarded the Visual Arts Research Grant from the Ministry of Culture, published in the book Nuevas prácticas artísticas contemporáneas: espacios autogestionados en la ciudad de Medellín (2019).

She is also a writer of various texts focused on enriching discussions related to contemporary artistic practices. In 2023, she was a writer in residence at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), conducting research on the Chilean magazine CAL. Her most recent curatorial project, titled Arte, amistad y redes: publicaciones seriadas hechas por artistas(2023), explored the diversity of collaborative editorial artistic practices in the context of Colombian art.”