Erika Diettes

Erika Diettes (born 1978) is a Colombian visual artist. Born in Cali, Colombia she currently lives and works in Bogota, Colombia. At the age of 15, Erika and her family moved to Washington DC where her father worked as a police attaché at the Colombian Embassy. Once settled into her new school, she began to study art, ceramics, theatre and photography. She attended the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Bogotá where she received a degree in social communications, Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Museums of Modern Art of Bogotá, Cali, Medellín and Barranquilla, the National Museum of Colombia, the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Santiago de Chile, Centro Cultural recoleta in Buenos Aires.

Written works

Silencios (2005) Rio Abajo (2008) Noticia al aire...Memoria en vivo (2010) Sudarios (2012)