Lina Espinosa

The line plays a leading role in the work of Lina Espinosa. A Colombian artist and university teacher, she has been exhibiting since 1986 as well as teaching in the art department of Bogotá’s Universidad de los Andes since 1991. In her work, the line becomes a symbol that conveys the essence of form, in a kind of conceptual abstraction which has existentialist overtones.

Her solo exhibitions, both national  and international, include Impacto Mínimo (“Minimal Impact”) at the Museo Bolivariano de Arte Contemporáneo in Santa Marta, Colombia (2013); A través del cuerpo at the Galería Casas Riegner in Bogotá (2006), and (using the English translation of the same exhibition name) Through the Body at Flatfile Galleries in Chicago (2008). In 2014, she was nominated for the VIII Premio Luis Caballero, for Dibujo Habitable (“Inhabitable Drawing”), which was presented at Flora, Bogotá, in 2015. In 2017 she presented her work at the 12th International Conference of The Arts and Society in Paris, as well as her Dibujo Habitable at Plecto Galería in Medellín, and her work Mapping the Territory II at Cosmopolis, in Nantes, France. Her work is present in private collections in Colombia, Mexico, Chile, the United States and Spain, among others.

She has a Master of Fine Arts from The School of Art Institute of Chicago. She was head of the Art Department at the Universidad de los Andes from 1997 to 2001, where she continues to teach.

Her collaboration with the Rafael Pérez Hernando gallery started with a Solo Project in ARTBO Bogotá 2018, where her work Trazos y silencios (“Traces and Silences”) received the Honourable Mention for the KUBIK Price. In November 2019, our gallery hosted her first solo show in Spain, Líneas Improbables (“Improbable Lines”), bringing together a series of works from recent years.