RICARDO MUÑOZ IZQUIERDO

Colombia, 1985

Muñoz Izquierdo has managed to construct a characteristic language that is widely remembered. The results of his work oscillate between scatology, violence, the sacred, erotic rawness and autobiography to propose a particular surrealism. Postulating a singular work methodology, he explores diverse techniques without exhausting the achievements of each one. His projects range from urban art to sound experimentation, from drawing to animation, from serigraphy to fanzine, from painting to sculpture, from performance to art direction and vice versa. He has been interested in exploring associations between graphic languages of strong anecdotal charge from humor, cynicism and allegorical deformation.

He is currently an associate resident at Roca Umbert fabrica de las artes, tutored by Joan Fontcuberta. He has studied at the Technological University of Pereira, University of Pelotas, Brazil and national internships with the Colombian Ministry of Culture under the tutelage of Juan Mejía and Maria Isabel Rueda. He is the director of the artistic residency La Cuenca Pereira. His projects have been selected in several international events such as the Festival Panoramic Centre d'Arts Santa Mònica Barcelona; Selections from Under the Subway Video Art Night, Museum of the Moving Image, New York; 14th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece 2018; Artbo Arte cámara 2014; the 44 Salón Nacional de Artistas 2016, Colombia; Miami New Media Festival, U.S.A. 2016; Simultan Festival, Romania, 2016; FIF_BH - Festival Internacional de Fotografía de Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2015; among others. He has held artist residencies at Taller 7, Medellín, Colombia; La Usurpadora in Puerto Colombia; Bienal Cerveira, Portugal; Cera 13, Barcelona; Roca Umbert Granollers, Barcelona. He has collaborated with the artist Marcel lí Antúnez Roca on various projects.

He lives in Pereira, Colombia.