Natalia Castañeda Arbelaez

Natalia Castañeda Arbelaez (born 1982) is a Colombian painter, draftsperson, video artist, researcher, and educator. She works primarily with large scale landscape paintings of glaciers, featuring topographies. She has taught at the University of the Andes, the El Bosque University, and the University of Barcelona.

Life and career Castañeda Arbelaez was born in 1982, in Manizales in Andean Region, Colombia. She started making art in childhood. At the age of 17 she moved to Bogotá.

Castañeda Arbelaez has regularly explored three of the six remaining ice glacial masses in Colombia, and has been specifically focused on Los Nevados National Natural Park for the last 20 years.