David Peña Lopera (b. Colombia, 1981) holds a BFA in Fine Arts from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2004) and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (2011), which he completed as a Fulbright/Colombian Ministry of Culture grantee. He has exhibited nationally and internationally in twelve solo shows and more than sixty group exhibitions. He has taught at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Universidad Javeriana, and Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano. He is currently an associate professor of media art in the Art Department of the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá.
Through deliberately varied media (sculpture, drawing, video, animation, electronics, and programming) and processes influenced by computational thinking, his work is interested in fundamental problems of human perception and some of its natural and social limits: Memory, scale, the color black, history and ideology, and various regimes of representation, information and knowledge. His recent work deals with the tension between vision and touch and the hand as a perceptual, expressive and action organ.
