Oswaldo Maciá
Born 1960 in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, England
BA Sculpture, Guildhall University of London, England
Mural Painting, Llotja School, Barcelona, Spain
BA Fine Art, School of Fine Art Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
Lives and works between London and New Mexico, USA.
Migratory Movements, Elizabeth Xi Bauer, London
A PRELUDE ON TWO RHYTHMIC STUDIES: NATURAL AND UNNATURAL SOUNDS, Bi_AM – International Art Biennial of Antioquia and Medellín, Colombia
PRELUDIO DE ARRULLO – DARIÉN, The International Biennial of Art and City, Bogotà, Colombia
El Lenguaje de los Sentidos, 1 Mira Madrid, Spain
Inaugural Exhibition, Elizabeth Xi Bauer, London
BREATH,The 15th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
EL CRUCE, The New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, USA
THE THEATRE OF ENERGY: AN EXPLORATION IN THREE ACTS, Museum Anna Nordlander/MAN at Sara Kulturhus in SkelleNeå, Sweden
COMPOSITION IN THREE NOTES / REFLECTIONS ON UNCONSCIOUSNESS (2022) in Odor: Immaterial Sculptures, Tyrolean State Museum – Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD (1999-2021) in Escala: Escultura (1945-2000) Medio siglo de escultura, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD (1999-2021) in À bruit secret. Hearing in Art, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD (1999-2021) Tate Collection, Tate Modern, London, UK
É a lama, é a lama, Elizabeth Xi bauer, London
COMPOSITION IN THREE NOTES / REFLECTIONS ON UNCONSCIOUSNESS in Odor. Immaterial Sculptures, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Seigen (MGKSiegen), in co-operation with Tiroler Landesmuseen Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria
CORRUPTION AND CONSCIOUSNESS (2020-2022) in Studiotopia: Colliding Epistemes, Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej ŁAŹNIA, Gdańsk, Poland; Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium and Tranzit House, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
NEW CARTOGRAPHIES OF SMELL MIGRATION SITE SANTA FE, New Mexico, USA
NEW CARTOGRAPHIES OF SMELL MIGRATION in To Smell with the Eyes: Images of Scent since the Renaissance, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
FOREST OF BALMS, Lost. In Between. Together,
22nd Bienal De Arte Paiz Guatemala, Guatemala City
THE OPERA OF CROSS-POLLINATION: FOR CATHERINE PETITGAS in MECARÕ, Amazonia in the Petitgas Collection, MO.CO (Montpellier Contemporain), Montpellier, France
FABLES OF THE WIND – SWARM WELCOME, Tårngade Water Tower, Struer, Denmark
THE OPERA OF CROSS-POLLINATION, Intonal Festival 2019, Malmö, Sweden
GEOPOLITICS OF NATURE, Espaivisor Gallery, Valencia, Spain
A GIFT TO SVALBARD, Vinkelstasjonen, Longyearbyen on Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard archipelago (Arctic), Norway
KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE in FLORA ars+natura, Dulce Tumaco, Bogotá, Colombia
THE OPERA OF CROSS-POLLINATION, 1st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA1), Riga, Latvia
EQUATIONS, CAAM (Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno), Las Palmas Gran Canarias, Spain
SCENARIO IN CONSTRUCTION, Public sculpture on a roundabout (Calle 19, Carrera 3), Bogotá, Colombia
CONDUCTOR, SYMPHONY FOR A MUTE BIRD
in Todo o Património é Poesia, Centro de Arte e Cultura, Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal
TRILOGY FOR THREE TIMBRES, MUAC (Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo), Mexico City, Mexico
CALUMNY, in Messages from a New America,
10th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD, BP Spotlight, Tate Britain, London
CONFESION, Ocupación, Colatera, 12th Bienal de La Habana. Estudio de Los Carpinteros, La Habana, Cuba
CONFESSION, in The Smell of War, Castle De Lovie, Poperinge, Belgium
GARLIC SOAP in Belle Haleine – The scent of art [Der Duft der Kunst] Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
TRANSITION, in Here Today, The Sorting Office, London, UK
ANESTESIA, 1st Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
A LABORATORY OF CYNICAL PERCEPTION, Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York, USA
THE LIBRARY OF CYNICISM, Chelsea Space, London
DARFUR, in Audio-festival Helicotrema, Museum for Contemporary Art, Rome (MACRO), Roma, Italy
VESPER, in Cantos Cuentos Colombianos, Daros Latinamerica Collection, Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
MARTINETE, in The Deep of the Modern, Manifesta 9 Genk, Waterschei, Genk, Belgium
FLYING GLASSHOUSE WITH AN AQUARIUM INSIDE, Galerie Coucou, Kassel, Germany
ACTION VERSUS JUSTIFICATION/IWUANA
in Who More Sci-Fi Than Us, contemporary art from the Caribbean, Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort, Netherlands
FROGS/AMBIGUITY AND AMPHIBIAN in Soundworks | Bruce Nauman’s Days, ICA, London, UK
ESCENARIO PARA TRES CIRCUNSTANCIAS: A, B, C
in MDE11, Salón de Fundición del Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (Mamm), Medellin, Colombia
MARTINETE in Essays on Geopoetics (Ensaios de Geopoética), 8th Mercosur Biennial (8a Bienal do Mercosul), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
UNDER THE HORIZON, in XVIII Rohkunstbau: Macht, Schloss Marquardt (Marquardt Palace), Potsdam, Germany
PERCEPTIONS IN BALANCE, in Works on paper
Nuartlink Gallery, Westport, CT, USA
EQUILIBRIUM, in New Narrative, Digital Art Center (DAC), Taipei, Taiwan
EQUILIBRIUM in Robert Mapplethorpe Night Work, Alison Jacques, London, UK
EQUILIBRIUM, Espaivisor Gallery, Valencia, Spain
EQUILIBRIUM, in Daydreaming with… James Lavelle, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
ACTION VERSUS JUSTIFICATION/IWUANA in Utrópicos, 31st Bienal de Arte de Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Spain
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD in Al calor del pensamiento. Obras de la Daros Latinamerica Collection, Sala de Arte Santander, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid
DARFUR, Performa 09 Pandora’s Sound Box, White Box, New York, US
SURROUNDED IN TEARS Nuit Blanche 09 Toronto, Canada
THE FOUNTAIN, IV Biennale de Jafre Cataluna, Spain
TEN NOTES FOR A HUMAN SYMPHONY, 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD, 41 Salon Nacional Cali, Colombia
SOUFFLE, The Gallery, Sketch, London
SOUFFLE, Medition biennale, Poznan, Poland
SMELLSCAPE III, Odor Limits, Esther M. Klein Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
VESPER, Fondation Clement, Martinique
CALUMNY and TEARS, Musee d’Art de Jolivette Quebec
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD, Festival de Lanaudiere Jolieve Quebec
DIVERSION END, Product, Varna, Bulgaria
CALUMNY and DARFUR, Fri-Art Fribourg, Switzerland
CALUMNY, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
VESPER, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
DARFUR, 2nd. Moscow Biennale. Special project ‘We are the future’, Moscow, Russia
SURROUNDED IN TEARS, Telefonica Buenos Aires, Negatec Buenos Aires, Argentina
DARFUR ‘The dog barks, but it makes no difference to the Camel’, Madrid Abierto, Madrid, Spain
CALUMNY, Sheffield Museum, Abstraction: extracting from the World, Sheffield, UK
DARFUR, Urp! Dieci posizioni tra pubblico e privato, Cagliari, Italy
SMELLSCAPE, Museum Science Oxford, UK
SURROUNDED IN TEARS, Kunstverein Freiburg-Invisible Worlds, Switzerland
SMELLSCAPE, Around the World in Eighty Days, South London Gallery, UK
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD, 51st Venice Biennial Jardin-Palazzo Franche, Venice, Italy
VESPER, Daros Collection Cantos Cuentos Colombianos, Zurich
VESPER, Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD Haunch of Venison Animals London (cat.)
SURROUNDED IN TEARS III, Tate Liverpool Biennial (with Jasper Morrison & Michael Nyman). Liverpool, UK
VESPER, Sound–Smell, Shanghai Biennale 2004, Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai, China (cat.)
E2 7SD Sound Sculpture The Place Prize,(Choreographer Rafael Bonachela), (First prize) The Place, London, UK
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD, Daros Collection: Cantos Cuentos Colombianos, Zurich (cat.)
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD, The Power Plant, Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada (cat.)
VESPER, II Bienal de Lanzarote: El viaje inú_l Arrecife, Spain (cat.)
VESPER, VIII Bienal de La Habana: El arte con la vida, La Habana, Cuba (cat.)
ESQUENOMEOYENOESQUENOMEVEN, VIII Bienal de La Habana, XEspacio Aglu_nador La Habana, Cuba
VESPER, VTO Gallery London, UK
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid, Spain
VESPER, The Place, (choreographer Rafael Bonachela), London, UK
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD, AfricAméricA Port–au– Prince, Haïti
PROVOKES / EVOKES (with Jasper Morrison), Artlab Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK (cat.)
PARA MAÑANA TENDREMOS UN DIA NUBLADO, Sinfonía anal audi_va.Tercer Fes_val, Internacional de Arte Sonoro México D.F., Mexico
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD, Tirana Biennale, Tirana Albania (cat.)
WHO CLEAN WHOM, Ventana. Office in Madrid, Madrid, Spain
ALGAE GARDEN, Ludwig Forum für Interna_onale Kunst, Con_nental Shi, Aachen, Germany (cat.)
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD, 12th-century Church of Gamla Uppsala, Sweden
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD, ExTeresa Arte Actual, Cartucho, México D.F., Mexico
SOMETHING GOING ON ABOVE MY HEAD, Whitechapel Art Gallery London, UK
FROM WITHIN, Juliet Gallery, Trieste, Italy (cat.)
BAJANDO CAYENDO, V Bienal de Arte de Bogotá, MAMBO (Museo de Arte Moderno), Bogotá, Colombia (cat.)
FAMILIARES ANONIMOS [ANONYMOUS RELATIVES] in Nuevos nombres. La lógica de los sentidos, Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia (cat.)
CLEANAWAY, in Postscript, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
GARLIC SOAP, in Ideal Standard Summertime, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
MEMORY SKIP – WHO CLEANS WHOM? | THE SOUND OF SMELL, Museum of Installation, London, UK (cat. with CD)
Goldsmiths’ College MA Show, London, UK
Golden Pear, Art & Olfaction Awards
Public commission Award for the city of Bogotá, Colombia
First prize at the 2011 Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador
Daros Latinamerica, Zurich
Tate Modern Collection, London
The Collection Catherine Petitgas, London
New Mexico Museum of Art, New Mexico