statement

Juan Pablo Caicedo Torres (Bogotá, Colombia, 1991) is a visual and performance artist, photographer, poet, and cultural producer whose practice approaches multiple cultural and political notions from a critical, interdisciplinary, and community focused approach. Juan Pablo’s practice engages in multiple media and often involves creating educational experiences and building cultural platforms where art catalyzes public dialogues toward environmental and social justice.

Juan Pablo’s multidisciplinary practice weaves together educational artistic experiences and the creation of curatorial platforms where art becomes a catalyst for public dialogues on environmental and social justice. As an artist, educator, and researcher addressing a wide range of sociopolitical issues, his work spans visual and performance art, installations, socially engaged art, public space interventions, and cultural organizing. Through a collaborative and critical approach, Juan Pablo aims to foster collective action and dialogue, analyzing power dynamics to highlight historical, political, and environmental conflicts in the public sphere. His work inspires collective imagination and action towards support, care, and advocacy, serving as a catalyst for collaboration and solidarity. By fostering dialogue and building collective knowledge through the arts, Juan Pablo’s practice acts as a conduit for meaningful social change.

Juan Pablo holds a Master of Arts in Arts Politics from New York University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National University of Colombia. His artwork has been exhibited in museums and art spaces across Colombia, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, and the United States.

Juan Pablo’s work has been showcased in museums, galleries, and independent spaces worldwide such as MoMA NYC, Canal Projects, the MAMBO, Arts Santa Monica in Barcelona, the Santa Fe Gallery in Bogota, 107 projects in Sidney, Radio Lora in Zurich, Analco Project in Helsinki, the Performance Festival of Manizales, and Live/Deferred Actions in Bogota.

Education

New york university

2023
Art and Public Policy – TISCH School of the Arts
MA in Arts Politics

National University of Colombia

2018
BFA Fine Arts
Study Abroad – Barcelona University (2015) – Granada University (2016)

scholarships, grants & FELLOWSHIPS

2024. Create Change. Laundromat Project.
2023. HEAR US Award – TISCH Creative Research
2022. Lew Wassermann & TSOA Scholarship. New York University.
2020. Diverse Bogota grant for Socially Engaged Art Projects. IDARTES.
2018. Parks for Everyone grant for Public Art. IDARTES.

research & management experience

MoMA PS1, Queens, New York, United States
Program Production Coordinator
November 2023 – Present

Street Lab, New York, United States
Project Coordinator
July 2023 – October 2023

New York University, New York, United States
Graduate Research Assistant for Chair Prof. Patrick Hebert                
February 2023 – May 2023

Museum of Modern Art of Bogota MAMBO, Bogotá, Colombia
Education Project Manager and Cultural Promoter  
Field Coordinator                              
February 2020 – August 2022

Atempo Collective Foundation, Bogotá, Colombia                      
Project Manager                                        
February 2018 – January 2020 

La Bogotana Communication Agency, Bogotá, Colombia                
Art Director Assistant and Producer Assistant
August 2017 – January 2018

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

“Entangled Futures”. Forest for Trees, Climate Imaginarium. Governors Island, NY. 2024

“Summer Art Show 2024”. MoMA, New York.

“FCFH”. B dry Goods Gallery. Brooklyn, NY. 2023

“Liveness: eccentric itineraries of performance art”. Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá. Colombia. 2022 

“The condor’s flight”. Creativity and Territory NGO. Supported by Ministry of Culture, Colombia. 2020

 “PerfoArtNet. Performance Biennial. Santa fe Gallery. Bogotá, Colombia. 2019 

“Manizales Performance Festival”. Manizales, Colombia. 2018 

“Live/Deferred Actions Festival”. Bogota, Colombia. 2018 

“Cultures of silence: Invisible Violence”. Analco Project. Helsinki, Finland. 2017 

“Undergarments: 107 projects.” Sidney, Australia. 2017 

“60 db/16 khz. BCN. Do you feel the violence?” Arts Santa Monica. Barcelona, Spain. 2016 

“BlaBla Radio: DADÁ Jubilee”. Radio Lora. Zurich, Switzerland. 2016

 “I Drawing Contest Faber Castell”. Contemporary Art Museum. Bogotá, Colombia. 2012 

​