Miguel Ángel Rojas

Miguel Ángel Rojas (born 1946, Bogotá, Colombia) is a conceptual art and filmmaker. His work includes drawing, painting, photography, installations and video and is often related to contexts expanding on issues of sexuality, urban culture, systems of violence, substance abuse, and economic inequalities. He has been working as a photographer, painter and architect since the 1970s.

Artistic career Education Miguel Ángel Rojas completed his studies in painting at the School of Fine Arts at the National University of Colombia and in architecture at the University Javeriana.

Exhibitions His work has been shown individually and collectively since 1972 in several countries around Latin, Central and North America, as well as Europe and Asia, such as the United States, Colombia, Venezuela, Australia, Puerto Rico, Cuba, United States, Japan, Brazil, England, Mexico, among others.

In 2024, Ángel Rojas's work was included in the 60th Venice Biennale's central exhibition Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. In his Venice Biennale debut, he exhibited the pieces El Negro (1979) and El Emperador (1973–1980) commenting on queer intimacy through a cinematic approach.

Exhibition History

Solo exhibitions

2021 Regreso a la Maloca, Bogotá Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia (Curated by Eugenio Viola) 2012 Camino Corto (Short Way), Art Museum of the National University of Colombia, Bogota, Colombia 2012 El nuevo Dorado (The New Dorado), ARCH: International Fair of Contemporary Art, Madrid, Spain 2011 At the Edge of Scarcity, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas 2009 Pueblito (Little Town). Museum Bolivariano of Contemporary Art, Santa Marta, Colombia 2008 Fotofest 2008, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas 2007 Objetivo-Subjetivo (Objective-Subjective), Museum of Art of the Bank of the Republic, Bogota, Colombia 2007 David, La vitrina, Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia 2006 Fotofest 2006, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas 2002 La Cama de Piedra (The Stone Bed), Colombian National Museum, Bogota, Colombia 2001 Sub, Valenzuela Gallery – Klenner, Bogota, Colombia 2000 La Cama de Piedra (The Stone Bed), French Alliance, Bogota, Colombia 1995 Pascal y Pascual (Pascal and Pascual), Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico 1992 Debug y Pintura (Drawing and Painting), Artery Gallery, Barranquilla, Colombia 1991 Bio, Bogotá Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia 1990 Miguel Ángel Rojas, Cartagena Museum of Modern Art, Cartagena, Colombia 1990 Miguel Ángel Rojas obra en process (Miguel Angel Rojas work in process), Medellin Museum of Modern Art, Colombia 1985 Bio, INTAR (International Arts Relations, Inc.), New York, New York 1982 Subjetivo (Subjective), Gallery Garcés-Velásquez, Bogota, Colombia 1981 Works on Paper, Americas Society, New York, New York 1980 Grain, Bogota Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia

Group exhibitions

2024 The Days That Build Us, PAMMTV, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida 2024 Nucleo Contemporano, 60th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 2010 A cidade do homem nu, São Paulo Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2010 Al calor del pensamiento (To the heat of thought), Daros Collection at Bank Santander Foundation, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain 2008 Opening – Colombia, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas 2005 Fotográfica Bogotá (Fotographic Bogota), Bogota, Colombia 2004 Cantos Cuentos Colombianos (Colombian Song Tales), Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland 2004 39 Artists National Salon, Bogota, Colombia 2003 Colombia 2003, Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2003 The American Effect, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York 2002 VIII Biennial of Bogota, Bogotá Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia 2001 Colombia Visible e Invisible (Visible and Invisible Colombia), Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain 1999 Re-Aligning Vision, Miami Art Museum (current PAMM), Florida 1998 Re-Aligning Vision, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Texas University, Austin, Texas; Museo de Bellas Artes (Caracas), Caracas, Venezuela; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico 1997 Re-Aligning Vision, Museo del Barrio, New York; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas 1997 Premio Marco 96, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey Mexico 1996 Art, Political and Religion, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom 1996 Realismo Mágico? Arte Figurativo de Los Años Noventas en Colombia (Magic realism? Figurative Art of the 90s in Colombia), Galerie Théoremes, Brussels, Belgium; Melina Mercury Cultural Center, Athens, Greece; University of Essex & Aberysmith, United Kingdom 1996 Latin America 96 in the Fine Arts Museum, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires), Buenos Aires, Argentina 1996 V Biennial of Bogota, Bogotá Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia 1996 Marco Prize 95, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico

1995 Arte, Política y Religión (Art, Politics and Religion), Mead Gallery, Warwick Art Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom 1995 A Propósito de Colombia (Apropos Colombia), Kulturhaus Lateinamerika, Cologne, Germany, Marco Prize, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico 1994 V Havana Biennial, Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba 1993 Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), New York 1992 Echo Art, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1992 Joan Miro Sculpture Prize, Miro Centre, Barcelona, Spain 1992 Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, Plaza de Armas, Seville, Spain 1992 Colombian Contemporary Art, Expo Seville 92, Seville, Spain 1992 America Latins Art Contemporain, Hotel give Arts, Foundation National give Arts, Paris, France Echo Art, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1991 Myth and Magic in America, The Eighty, Museum Marco, Monterrey, Mexico 1990 Images of Silence, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico 1990 Bogota Art Biennial, Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia 1989 Images of Silence, Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington, D.C. 1987 A Body Marginal, Center for Photography, Paddington, Australia 1986 Cem Anos de Arte na Colombia, Imperial Palace, Rio of Janiero, Brazil 1986 IV Biennial American of Graphic Arts, Museum The Social Gathering, California 1986 II Havana Biennial, Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba 1983 World Print Four, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California 1982 4th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 1982 Muñoz-Astudillo-Rojas-Ramírez, Museum The Social gathering, Cali, Colombia 1981 Graphic arts Panamericanas, Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, New York 1981 4th Biennial of Art of Medellín, Palace of Exhibitions, Medellín, Colombia 1981 16th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1979 11th Biennial International of Recorded, Tokyo, Japan 1979 Il Trienal Latin American of Recorded, Arts Centre and Communication, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1979 IV Biennial Latin America of Graphic Arts, San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979 I Biennial International of Painting, Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Cuenca, Ecuador 1977 The Plastic Colombian of This Century, House of The Americas, Havana, Cuba 1977 The Novisimos Colombian, Museum of Art Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela 1976 III Biennial Latin American of Graphic Arts, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Collections (selection) Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas La Caixa Foundation, Barcelona Spain Luis Angel Arango Library of the Republic Bank, Bogota, Colombia Daros Latin America Collection, Zurich, Switzerland Colombian National Museum, Bogota, Colombia National University Museum of Art, Bogota, Colombia House of the Americas, Havana, Cuba Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, Mexico DF, Mexico MUSAC, Museum of Contemporary Art of Castile and Leon, Spain Museo de Bellas Artes (Caracas), Caracas, Venezuela Museum of American Art of Managua, Managua, Nicaragua Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo, Monterrey, Mexico Bogotá Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia La Tertulia Museum, Cali, Colombia Museum of Modern Art, Bucaramanga, Colombia Colección de la Rectoria de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia Collection Embassy of Colombia in Spain, Madrid, Spain Museum of Modern Art, Barranquilla, Colombia Embassy of France, Bogota, Colombia Museum of Modern Art, Cartagena, Colombia