Doris Salcedo

Biography

Known for her sociopolitical sculptural work, Doris Salcedo’s multidisciplinary practice centres around themes of memory, loss and violence as experienced by the exiled and traumatised. Often incorporating everyday items such as clothing and furniture, her works recreate the ineffable emptiness that a loved one’s disappearance creates. Salcedo’s works draw on her own upbringing during a period of political instability in Colombia to attempt to give voice to the silenced, disempowered and underrepresented

Salcedo’s recent solo exhibitions include
Palimpsest Beyeler Foundation, Basel, Switzerland (2022); Glenstone Museum, Maryland, USA (2022); Doris Salcedo: Tabula Rasa, Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lubbeck, Germany (2019); Doris Salcedo: Acts of Mourning, IMMA, Dublin (2019); Palimpsest, Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2017); Doris Salcedo, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Perez Art Museum, Miami (2015); and Plegaria Muda, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico; Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden; Gulbenkian, Centro de Art Moderna, Lisbon; Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome (2011-2012). She has participated in group exhibitions in institutions such as Des Moines Art Center, Iowa (2017); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2016); Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany (2014); Centro Galego de Art Contemporanea, Santiago De Compostela, Spain (2014); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010, 2013); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts (2011); Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain (2011); Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2011); and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA (2010).
Her works can be found in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; Tate gallery, London; Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Salcedo received the Nomura Art Award, Shanghai (2020); the Possehl Prize for International Art, Lübeck, Germany (2019); Rolf Schock Prize in the Visual Arts, Stockholm (2017); Nasher Sculpture Prize, Dallas (2015); and Hiroshima Art Prize (2014). Premio Velazquez de Artes Plásticas (2010) She was awarded an honorary doctorate by Universidad Compostela de Madrid (2018). Honorary Doctorate degree by San Francisco art Institute (2008)

She holds a BFA from Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Bogotá (1980) and an MA from New York University (1984).

Salcedo was born in 1958 in Bogotá, where she continues to live and work.