Carlos Delgado - Artist CV English
CARLOS DELGADO Visual Artist www.carlosdelgadoarts.com
Carlos Delgado is a Colombian ‐ Canadian contemporary visual artist, with indigenous roots from Colombia and more than 10 years of artistic trajectory formed in Canada. His abstract compositions don’t represent the image of something or someone specific; but instead they are the manifestation of the artists experiences, memories, emotions and his own interpretation of the surroundings. These abstract creations have gained huge appreciation from galleries, collectors and other artists all over the world.
Gallery Representation
Galleri Lohme, Malmo, Sweden Westland Gallery, London, Canada Sybill Frank Gallery, Wellington, Canada Emily Harding Gallery, Toronto, Canada Cox Gallery, Bordeaux, France
Band of Vices, Los Angeles, USA Matiz Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Collections
Private Collections: Work held in private collections in Australia, Austria, Canada, Colombia, China, Ireland, Italy, Kuwait, Germany, Mexico, Portugal, Switzerland, Singapore, USA, United Kingdom
Permanent Public Collections:
Library of Rioscuio, Colombia, Permanent Collection Gallery Carlos Drew, Permanent
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Collection, Colombia Gallery Chaos, Permanent Collection, Serbia
Awards and Recognition
2017 Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Abroad Grant
2017 Toronto Arts Foundation and RBC Mentorship Award
2016 Toronto Arts Council, Community Arts Grant Co‐recipient
2016 Community Artist in Residence, Power Plant Gallery, Toronto
2016 RBC and Toronto Arts Foundation Art Access Award
2015 Finalist for Toronto Arts Foundation Newcomer Artist Award
2014 Finalist for Toronto Arts Foundation Newcomer Artist Award
2013 Certificate of recognition, Toronto Liberal MP for promotion of culture via arts
Solo Exhibitions
2019
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2019
2018
2018
2018
2016
Group Exhibitions
2022 Westland Gallery, London, Canada
2020 Art and Desing Space Gallery, Calgary, Canada
“Evolution en deux” Duo show, Gallery Cox, Bordeaux, France “Evolution” Lohme Galleri, Malmo, Sweden
“Faces” Westland Gallery, London, Canada
“Changing Faces” Emily Harding Gallery, Toronto
“Solo Exhibition”, Casagraumuseo, Bogota, Colombia
“Abondano y Soledad” public installation, Encuentro de la Palabra, Riosucio, Colombia "Being Human in the System" Gallery Carlos Drew Castro, Pereira, Colombia
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2019 Eye to Eye, Band of Vices Gallery, Los Angeles 2019 Art Life Art Fair, Moscow, Russia
2019 “Portrait de Femme”, Cox Gallery, France 2019 The Artist Project, Toronto
2018 The Artist Project, Toronto
2017 Lohme Gallery, Malmo, Sweden
2017 Zona L Galleria, Bogota, Colombia
2017 Affordable Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden 2016 Bartlett Gallery, Alton
2016 Walnut Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto 2016 The Artist Project, Toronto
2015 Walnut Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto 2015 Hashtag Gallery, Toronto
2014 Goodfellas Gallery, Toronto
2012 Bata Show Museum, Toronto
2012 AWOL Gallery, Toronto
2012 Blue Bird Studios, Hamilton
2012 Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery, Toronto
Public Showings – Live Art
2022 "Live", Westland Gallery, London, Canada 2019 Art Life Art Fair, Moscow, Russia
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2019 “Portrait de Femme”, Cox Gallery, France 2017 Gallerinite, Malmo, Sweden
2017 private live painting, England
2017 Encuentro de la Palabra, Riosucio, Colombia
2017 “I:Variations” Burlington Center for the Arts, The Citadel Theatre, Toronto 2016 Ontario Culture Days, Union Station, Toronto
2016 Raptors Play Offs, Toronto
2016 Art Starts Fundraiser, Toronto
2016 Mayor’s Art Evening, Toronto Arts Foundation, Toronto
2016 Bell Media, Thomson Landry Gallery, Toronto
2015 Toronto Pan Am Games and CIBC, Toronto, Ontario
2015 Mississauga Latin Festival, Mississauga
2015 City of Toronto and Public Health, Toronto
2015 Inspirit Conference, Agha Khan Museum, Toronto
2015 Olive Harper Foundation, Toronto
2015 Toronto Arts Foundation and RBC Award Gala, Toronto
2014 iYellow Wine Club, Liberty Village, Toronto
2014 Twitter, Toronto
2014 Construct Canada, Toronto
2014 Starbucks, Canada
2014 FIFA, Toronto
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2014 Streetcar, Toronto
2014 PATCH and STEPS, Toronto
2014 Vans, Toronto
2014 Mississauga Board of Trade, Mississauga
2013 Memory Ball and Alzheimer’s Society, Toronto
2013 Scotiabank Busker Fest, Toronto
2013 Howgtown Brewery, Toronto
2013 L’Oreal Canada, Toronto
2013 Achievers, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
2013 Princes Margaret Foundation, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Murals
Public Murals
2017 Underpass park, Toronto
2017 Encuentro de la Palabra, Riosucio, Colombia 2016 Ontario Culture Days, Union Station, Toronto 2014 Poetry Jazz Café, Kensington Market, Toronto 2014 Crepes Café, Kensington Market, Toronto 2009 Riosucio, Colombia
2008 Miranda, Colombia
Press
2019 DeSerres, Artist Spotlight
2018 Canadian Immigrant, Article feature and front cover
2018 Luxe Magazine (feature and cover story in print), Toronto, Canada2018 TorontoGuardian,“Top10artiststoknowfromthe
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Artist Project” 2017 Blacklisted, Denmark
2017 ION Magazine, A r t f u l Vision
2016 La Patria, “Color Riosuceno en Canada”, Colombia
2016 CP24 Toronto News, Mayor's Art Evening in support of Toronto Arts Foundation 2016 El Diario del Otun, "El hombre esta solo en nuestra sociedad" Pereira, Colombia 2016 Neighborhood Artist Network Artist Spotlight, T o r o n t o
2 0 1 5 Art Toronto, "RECALL / Walnut Contemporary" show art review
2015 Globe and Mail, "50 Honourable Mentions Winners, TELUS Small Business Contest"
2014 TCHAD Magazine, Toronto print edition
2014 Life as Human, "Energetic painting and passion for multiculturalism"
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