Paola Peña Ospina is an art historian and sociologist, with experience as a researcher, educator, and independent curator. Her research approach advocates for making visible artists and practices that have remained on the margins of more official narratives of art history, as evidenced in her books Sobre Arte: Carlos Echeverry y el arte correo (2021) and At the Same Time: Parallel Histories of Video Art in Colombia (2019). She has authored numerous texts aimed at enriching discussions around contemporary artistic practices for academic and specialized audiences. Throughout her practice, the review of documentary archives has been not merely a methodological tool, but a central axis of her research work.
In 2023, she was a writer-in-residence at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA). Following an in-depth review of its archive, she authored an article on the Chilean avant-garde magazine CAL. Among her most recent curatorial projects are AÚN POR NOMBRAR (2024), which brought together the voices of diverse Latin American artists to address the legacies of colonialism, and ART, FRIENDSHIP, AND NETWORKS: SERIAL PUBLICATIONS MADE BY ARTISTS (2023), an exhibition that explored the diversity of collaborative artistic-editorial practices within the Colombian art context. Artistic and editorial practices have thus become one of her primary lines of research.
She is currently developing the research project Genealogy of the Artist’s Book in Colombia, winner of the 2025 Arts Research Grant from the National Stimuli Program of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Knowledges of Colombia.
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