BIOGRAPHY
Karina Santacoloma is a Colombian artist working at the intersection of textile and sculpture. She grew up in one of the country’s most fertile and biodiverse regions, in an environment of constant growth, and in close proximity to the work of sculptor Rodrigo Arenas Betancourt. She trained at one of Latin America’s oldest textile academies and has engaged with leading artists, including Olga de Amaral.
Her language is developed through meticulous processes in which the combination of fibers, materials, textures, and tonal variations allows her to build gradients, transitions between light and shadow, and a strong sense of depth. Through these relationships, she creates spatial fields that open as portals between opposites, sustained by a central axis of balance that runs throughout her practice. From this axis, her work unfolds as an exploration of the patterns and underlying structures that shape and connect the natural world.
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Selected Exhibitions
* Expo 2025 Osaka – Osaka, Japan, 2025
Colombia Pavilion
* National Capitol of Colombia – Bogotá, Colombia, 2024
Constitution Hall
* National Police Historical Museum of Colombia – Bogotá, Colombia, 2024
* B. David Levine – Los Angeles, USA, 2023-present
Showroom (La Cienega Blvd)
* Galería de Arte Hacienda Castilla — Pereira, Colombia, 2023
“Espejismos y Paisajes” – two-room exhibition (38 works), 3 months Presented alongside a concurrent exhibition of Luis Caballero
* Edgar Negret Museum of Modern Art – Bogotá, Colombia, 2022
Education
Education
* Universidad de los Andes – Bogotá, Colombia B.A. in Design, 2019-2025
Focus in Textile Practices; Minor in Fine Arts, 2023-2025
* Universidad de los Andes – Bogotá, Colombia Industrial Engineering, 2017-2019
* Milan Fashion Campus – Milan, Italy Fashion and Textile Design Studies, 2019
* New England School of English (NESE),
Harvard Square – Boston, MA, USA
English Studies, 2016
* Lycée Français de Pereira – Pereira, Colombia French Baccalaureate (Scientific Track)
STATEMENT
My work operates through sequence, proportion, and repetition-structures that govern existence. Informed by the Golden Ratio, I work with living matter, constructing gradients of light and shadow where opposing forces are brought into balance through integration.
Through weaving as a disciplined, meditative process, each piece functions as a field of encoded consciousness-where pattern, memory, and information are held, transformed, and revealed within a continuous, living system.
