{"id":25066,"date":"2026-05-20T16:25:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/?p=25066"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:08:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:08:46","slug":"johanna-calle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/johanna-calle\/","title":{"rendered":"Johanna Calle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Johanna Calle<\/a><\/span> was born in 1965 in Bogot\u00e1<\/span>, where she lives and works. Following her studies in the visual arts at the Talleres Art\u00edsticos of the Universidad de los Andes in Bogot\u00e1 from 1984 to 1989, Calle received a British Council scholarship in 1992 to earn a master\u2019s degree at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. Her work draws on a range of archival and deciphering techniques, often associated with everyday life, to address the violence of recent Colombian history and evoke the victims of forced disappearances.<\/p>\n

Johanna Calle has been honored with numerous prestigious awards, including major prizes and honorary recognitions in Colombian art salons (1996\u20132003), a fellowship at the Cit\u00e9 Internationale des Arts in Paris (2001), and international grants and residencies in Europe and the United States (2008\u20132013).<\/p>\n

She has been included in international biennials such as the Sydney Biennale<\/span> (2016), the S\u00e3o Paulo Biennial<\/span> (2014), SITE Santa Fe<\/span> (2014), and the Istanbul Biennial<\/span> (2014).<\/p>\n

Selected exhibitions include Arquitecturas, Bienvenu Steinberg & C, New York<\/a> (2026); Museum of Contemporary Art Denver<\/span> (2024); Hayward Gallery<\/span> (2020); Jos\u00e9e Bienvenu Gallery, New York (2019); La Maison de l\u2019Am\u00e9rique latine, Paris (2017); Museum of Modern Art<\/span> (2017); Silentes 1985\u20132015<\/i>, Museo de Arte del Banco de la Rep\u00fablica, Bogot\u00e1, traveled to Museum Amparo, Puebla, Mexico (2015); Fondation Cartier pour l\u2019art contemporain<\/span> (2013); the Drawing Room, London (2013); Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco (2012); Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California (2012); S\u00e0n Art in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2012); and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art<\/span> (2011).<\/p>\n

Her work is included in institutional collections such as the Museum of Modern Art<\/span>; Tate Modern<\/span>; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art<\/span>; Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires; Fondation Cartier pour l\u2019art contemporain<\/span>; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach; Museum of Bogot\u00e1; National Museum of Colombia, Bogot\u00e1; National Bank of the Republic of Colombia, Bogot\u00e1; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami; Sur Collection, San Francisco; Comfenalco Antioquia, Medell\u00edn; Enersis Collection, Santiago; and Teor\u00e9tica Museum, San Jos\u00e9.<\/p>\n

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Johanna Calle Arquitecturas, 2026 Signed and dated on the back Nail polish on chromogenic print (anonymous photograph) Framed in Optium Museum Acrylic 3.5 x 3.5 in (image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Johanna Calle Arquitecturas, 2026 Signed and dated on the back Nail polish on chromogenic print (anonymous photograph) Framed in Optium Museum Acrylic 3.5 x 3.5 in (image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Johanna Calle Abstractas, 2026 Signed and dated on the back Erased found chromogenic print (anonymous photograph) Framed in Optium Museum Acrylic 3.5 x 6 in (image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Johanna Calle was born in 1965 in Bogot\u00e1, where she lives and works. Following her studies in the visual arts at the Talleres Art\u00edsticos of the Universidad de los Andes in Bogot\u00e1 from 1984 to 1989, Calle received a British Council scholarship in 1992 to earn a master\u2019s degree at the Chelsea College of Art […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/wybcxlogoforweb-big-1sq-e1491800568261.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25088,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25066\/revisions\/25088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}