Héctor Cataño is an artist and art professor from Bogotá Colombia currently working in Washington D.C., USA, He received his BFA from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University of Bogotá in 2003. In 2009 he moved to Valencia Spain to earn a Master degree in Art Production from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and in 2014 he received a second Master degree in Art, Creation, and Investigation from Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain.
Hector Cataño's art production has been constantly moving around topics such as economics, money and the value added to artworks due to its labor. This approach has led him to investigate the practice of drawing as a tool of abstract thinking, embracing the use of line in his artworks as a way to address issues about time, mind and body's gestural capacity. This condition and the integration of mechanical processes like repetition, modulation, and randomness, allows him to generate outcomes in a drawing-expanded field.
Education
2015 Master of Fine Arts, Complutense University of Madrid
[Master in Art and Creation Research] Madrid, Spain
2010 Master of Fine Arts, Polytechnic University of Valencia
[Artistic Production] Valencia, Spain
2003 Bachelor of Arts, Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano
[Fine Arts] Bogotá, Colombia
Solo Shows
2014 Sacrifices. Arte en La Red. Casa de América. Madrid, Spain
2013 Sacrifices. Galería El Garaje, Bogotá, Colombia
Sacred Economy. Espacio 101, Bogotá, Colombia
2004 The anguish of the old-fashioned ceremony. Galería El Garaje. Bogotá, Colombia
Selected Groups Shows
2020 Going Dark a group video exhibition. Brentwood Arts Exchange. Brentwood, MD
2019 Art Night Hickok Cole and Washington Project for the Arts. Washington, D.C
2018 Heritage:Now. DC Arts Center. Washington, D.C. USA
2017 Process & Practice. DC Arts Center. Washington, D.C. USA
2016 Transcripción. Casa-Hoffman. Bogotá, Colombia
Black Matter. Espacio Permanente. Bogotá, Colombia
2015 Art Med. II Internacional Art Fair. Medellín, Colombia
Panorama Colombia. Colombian Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
Jornada Colombia. Espacio Oculto, Madrid, Spain
2014 Catalejo II, Retrato de Familia. Museum of Visual Arts, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Bogotá, Colombia
Saque de Puerta. Centro de Arte Complutense C+C, Museo del Traje. Madrid, Spain
Salón de Verano. Centro Cultural Moncloa-Aravaca. Madrid, España
INTERLUDIOS. Muestra de vídeo, La Trasera, Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
2013 Franqueados 0,14. La Casa Franca, La Vaquería, Madrid, Spain
2012 Tercera Subasta La Localidad. La Localidad. Bogotá, Colombia.
Pintar Depués de Todo. La Cooperativa, 14 Salones Regionales de Artistas. Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia
Los 4. Galería El Garaje. Bogotá, Colombia
2004 XII Salón Nacional de Artistas Jóvenes, Galería Santa Fe Centro Cultural Planetario de Bogotá, Colombia
Scholarships, Fellowships and Awards
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2020, Fellowship Program Panelist. DC Comission for the Arts and Humanities.
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2016-2018, DC Arts Center. Washington D.C. USA
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2014-2015, II Beca de exhibición artística La Vitrina del Arte en Centros Comerciales de Bogotá. , Recreación y Deporte, Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá, Colombia
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2014, Beca de Circulación Internacional para Artistas y demás agentes de las artes plásticas. Ministerio de Cultura, Colombia
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2013-2014, . Laboratorio Acción Lab, Ejercicios en torno a la ficción, El Parqueadero Laboratorios Museo de Arte del Banco de la República y la Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño. https://accionlab.wordpress.com
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2013-2014, . Beca Fundación Carolina, Master Universitario de Investigación en Arte y Creación, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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2012-2013, Beca de Circulación en la Galería Santa Fe Sede Temporal, Espacios Independientes de Bogotá y en la Red, Programa Distrital de EstímulosIDARTES
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2011-2012, . Laboratorio Acción Lab, Práctica Artística-Acción Local, El Parqueadero-LaboratoriosMuseo de Arte del Banco de la República y la Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño. https://accionlab.wordpress.com
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2009-2010, . Beca Jóvenes Talentos ICETEX, Máster en Producción Artística Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, España
Articles and master’s thesis
Sacred Economy. The ominous, material and degraded of money in art.
Tutor: José Luis Clemente Marco. Polytechnic University of Valencia, Department of Fine Arts. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/81916
The Shadow Line. Thinking practice and symbolic value of contemporary Drawing.
Tutor: Ricardo Horcajada González.
Making time. Cotemporary Drawing as productive liberation. El sablazo, Crítica Cultural. Published: 2015/08/17. http://sablazo.com/haciendo-tiempo-el-dibujo-contemporaneo-como-liberacion-productiva-hector-catano/