The overwhelming strength of Ana Mercedes Hoyos’ art has earned her international acclaim. Born in Bogota, Columbia to architect Manuel Jose Hoyos, she began studying art at a very young age, often accompanying her father to European museums to learn art history.
Educated at the Facultad de Bellas Artes at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the School of Fine Arts at the University of Los Andes, she also studied privately with Luciano Jaramillo, Juan Antonio Roda, Armin Villegas and Marta Traba. Basing her work on the complex reality of Columbian Culture, she is equally expressive in a variety of media. Through her painting,sculpture, print-making, collage, photography and textiles runs a motif of saturated color, magic and nature.
| Selected Exhibitions |
1968
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Environmental Spaces, Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá |
| 1970 |
Erotic Art, Galería Belarca, Bogotá
Salon of the Americas, Museo La Terulia, Cali, Colombia |
| 1971 |
Graphic Artists of Colombia, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá |
| 1972 |
Institute of Latin American Art, Santiago, Chile
Biennial Exhibition, House of the Americas, Havana, Cuba |
| 1974 |
Galería Belarca, Bogotá |
| 1975 |
1900-1975: Landscape, Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá |
| 1976 |
Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá |
| 1977 |
Paris Biennial, Paris
New people of the World, Bogotá National Museum, Bogotá |
| 1978 |
Art Now III: Latin America – Sensible Geometry, Museum of Modern Art,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Eugenio Mendoza Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela
Galería San Diego, Bogotá |
| 1979 |
Galería Belarca, Bogotá
La Galería, Buenos Aires, Argentina
II Biennial Painting Exhibition, Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France
Prints and Drawings of Colombia, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá
XI International Biennial, Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo |
| 1980 |
Premio, Dibujo Miró, La Fundacion Miró, Barcelona
Canvases from Five Artists, Galería San Diego, Bogotá
Panama Institute of Art, Panama City, Panama
Galería Condor, Barranquilla, Colombia |
| 1981 |
Centro Colombo-Americano, Bogotá
Inaugural Exhibition, Galería Santa Fe, Bogotá
El Paisaje Liberrimo, National Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
IV Biennial Art Exhibition of Medellin, Medllin, Colombia |
| 1982 |
Contemporary Colombian Graphics, Colombian Embassy, Bonn, Germany
Colombian Art From the Sixties, Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá
Women of the Americas: Emerging Perspectives, Center for Inter-American
Relations of New York, New York |
| 1983 |
Art from the Workshops, Art From the Streets, School of Fine Arts, Paris
Colombian Paintings, Cultural Agenda on Colombia, Palacio de Bellas Artes,
Mexico City, Mexico |
| 1984 |
1st Biennial of Havana, Havana, Cuba
Colombia: Half a Century of Painting and Sculpture, National Anthropological
Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
Galería Garces Velasquez, Bogotá |
| 1985 |
Galeria Confamiliar, Barranquilla, Colombia
XVIII International Biennial of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
A Vision of Colombia, Santillana Foundation, Santillana del Mar, Spain
One Hundred Years of Colombian Art, Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá |
| 1986 |
National Press Club, Washington, D. C.
Abstract Vision, MOCHA New York, New York |
| 1987 |
Galería Alfred Wild, Bogotá |
| 1988 |
Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá
Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia |
| 1989 |
Galería El Museo, Bogotá
6 at 6: Contemporary Colombian Art, Rempire Gallery, New York
Women Artists, Galería Alfred Wild, Bogotá |
| 1990 |
Rempire Gallery, New York
Colombian Art, Fuji Museum of Tokyo, Tokyo
Rempire Gallery, New York |
| 1991 |
Rempire Gallery, New York
Galería Epoca, Santiago, Chile
National Museum Colculture, Colombia
Galeria Espacio San Salvador, El Salvador
Colombian Center, Permanent Mission of Colombia to the UN, New York
Three Colombian Artists, Museum of Modern Art, Cali, Colombia |
| 1992 |
Galeria Espacio San Salvador, El Salvador
Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Galería Alfred Wild, Bogotá
Colombian Contemporary Art, Expo Sevilla 92, Seville, Spain
Galería El Museo, Bogotá |
| 1993 |
Galería Fernando Quintana, Bogotá
Galeria Ramis F. Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico
Museo Reyo, Roldanillo, Colombia
Yoshii Gallery, New York |
| 1994 |
Casa de la Cultura de Mexico, Bogotá
Galería Tovar y Tovar, Bogotá
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan |
| 1995 |
Associated American Artists, New York
Latin American Women Artists 1915-1995, The National Museum of Women
in the Arts, Washington, D.C. |
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