Ricardo Moreno
Artist, Cinema, Contemporary Art, Fine Arts, Research, Teaching
Colombia
Master of Fine Arts from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University; MA in History and Theory of Art, Architecture, and the City from the National University of Colombia. He has developed his career as an artist, cultural manager, and researcher in contemporary art and cinematography. He currently works as an artist, independent curator, and director of Puerto Contemporáneo – a platform for artistic creation, research, and circulation; La Radio Criolla – a web radio station for dialogue and art criticism; the Estación Sonora Experimental Festival; and the El Criollo Producciones Foundation. He has also taught the Radio Creation module in the Master’s in Sound Art at the Antonio Nariño University in Bogotá.
As an artist, his work has been exhibited in Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Spain, and Germany. Recent exhibitions include: La Ciudad de los Enchichados – solo exhibition, Gilberto Álzate Avendaño Foundation, Bogotá, 2019; 12th edition of Proyector video art festival – Madrid, 2019; Pánico al Totalitarismo – solo exhibition, Gilberto Álzate Avendaño Foundation, Bogotá, 2018/19; Delirios e Ilusiones – Embassy of Peru in Colombia / Casa Bolívar Cultural Center – Bogotá, 2018; Panorama Colombia – Colombian Film Festival in Berlin – Kino Babylon – Berlin, 2018 and 2019 editions; II Young Art Salon – Gilberto Álzate Avendaño Foundation – Bogotá, 2017; Inter-In-Dependencias, Museum of Contemporary Art of Bogotá, 2017; Red Galería Santa Fe – Socially Committed Art Project – Sala ASAB – Superior Academy of Arts of Bogotá, 2017; Artecámara Pavilion – Bogotá International Art Fair (ARTBO) – Corferias – Bogotá, 2016.
Notable awards and recognitions include: Artist Book Grant, Urban Cartographies, Gilberto Álzate Avendaño Foundation – Bogotá, 2019; Residency Space Grant – El Parqueadero – District Institute of the Arts (IDARTES) and Miguel Urrutia Art Museum of the Bank of the Republic – Bogotá, 2018; International Circulation Grant in Visual Arts – IDARTES, 2018; Winner of the II Young Art Salon with the video art piece La Situación – Gilberto Álzate Avendaño Foundation – Bogotá, 2017; Ongoing Programming Grant in Visual and Plastic Arts – Red Galería Santa Fe and District Program of Concerted Support – IDARTES – Bogotá, 2017; Curatorial Research Grant – XV Regional Salon of Artists – Ministry of Culture of Colombia, 2014; National Independent Spaces Grant – Ministry of Culture, 2013; Mention for best experimental or video art work with the animation Kinoclaje, by the Colectivo Recicladores de Cine de Colombia – Festival de Cine Pobre Cuba, 2007.
In the field of research, he has curated the exhibition Polisemia, Miguel Urrutia Art Museum of the Bank of the Republic – Bogotá, 2018 and Centro Colombo Americano – Medellín, 2019; Red Galería Santa Fe and
