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Joao Mario Ortiz

(Colombia)

John Mario Ortiz is an artist interested in geometry in the visual arts, architecture, urban planning, science and ancestral knowledge. He holds an MFA in Visual Arts at Universidad Nacional de Medellín, and has studies in Art at Instituto Superior de Arte de la Habana (ISA). Recent solo exhibitions by John Mario Ortiz include: Mapas Edificables, galería Beta, Bogotá (2015), De- Proyectar, Universidad Nacional, Medellín (2014), Especulante – Programa ALBO Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellín, MAMM (2012). His work has been included in group shows internationally such as: Concerning the spiritual in art. Overture, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, MAMM, 2016, Mensajes de una Nueva América - 10º Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brasil (2015), The world was flat, now its round and it will be a hologram, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden (2015), La Vorágine, Arte Contemporáneo Colombiano, galería OMR, México D. F. (2015), Mutis Mutare, El Ranchito Colombia, Matadero, Madrid (2015), Línea Blanda, Arte Abstracto, galería Sextante, Bogotá (2014), Saber-Desconocer: 43 Salón (Inter) Nacional de Artistas, Museo de Antioquia, Medellín (2013), Nodos de la Emergencia – Pabellón Arte cámara – Feria Internacional de Arte de Bogotá, Artbo 2012, Centro Corferias, Bogotá (2012).