Federico Uribe

Federico Uribe (born 1962) is a Colombian artist living in Miami, Florida.

Biography Uribe grew up in Bogotá, Colombia, and attended the University of the Andes. Uribe pursued his bachelor's at the University of the Andes. In 1988, he left Colombia and moved to New York, where he would study a master in fine arts degree. During this time, he continued to study painting in New York under the guidance of Luis Camnitzer, who taught him essential skills that Uribe would later own use for his personal artworks. During his study, Uribe also lived in Cuba, Mexico, Russia, England, and the United States. He has lived in Miami since 2000.

Work Uribe describes his early work as "painful paintings relating to religion." In 1996 he stop pursuing oil painting and "started playing with objects."

The connection that Federico has with words has led his art to follow that certain word that comes up to his mind, and the process of creating art and the outcome would be defined by it. And sometimes the association among the used objects and the meaning of the sculpture will end transmitting ironic, benevolent provocation.

His most recent work includes a series of animal sculptures created with bullets. The creatures are given certain features that of an animal that is on grief, threaten or escaping. This can be representations of the world and the current situations that we’re living in, where bullets are cheaper than buying a canvas and paint, where animals are massively being killed for fur, or food and the 90 percent of the killed animal's body mass is thrown away. Also, every animal can portray a different person in the society, such as the companies CEO's, who are represented by the lion that is at the top of the food chain and the running bunny, who represent the people escaping from debt and duties.

Style and technique Uribe finds opportunity and plasticity in bits and pieces that society associates with one particular task and repurposes them into beautiful works of art. 2011 Boca Raton Museum of Art: Boca Raton, Florida. The World According to Federico Uribe. 2009 Chelsea Art Museum: New York, New York. 2007 Chelsea Art Museum: New York, New York. 2004 Art Museum of the Americas / O.A.S.: Washington, D.C. 2003 Bass Museum of Art: Miami, Florida.