Ana González
Ana Gonzalez, Photo byJuan Moore
Ana González’s artistic practice celebrates the landscapes of her native Colombia and her partnerships with the indigenous communities dedicated to their preservation. Her work serves as a vibrant tribute to the sensory richness and cultural significance of these environments whilst highlighting their crucial role in historic ecosystems. Her oeuvre bridges multiple disciplines, including painting, photography, and sculpture.
In her work González references to the 18th-century naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and his exploration of the interconnectedness of all living systems. Her Devastations series features textiles onto which the artist prints photographs of Colombia’s vulnerable environments which she then partially unravels by hand. The works preserve these spaces as sites of power, abundance, and renewal while referencing the slow disappearance of ancient ecologies.
González has worked closely with Colombian Indigenous communities, leading social and humanitarian initiatives with the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta communities, the Nukak people of Guaviare, and Misak women in Cauca. In collaboration with Cartier and the Amazon Conservation Team, González founded a health and social project in the Colombian Amazon. In November 2024 they completed a healthcare center in Murui Muina, Umancia, an indigenous settlement positioned at the intersection of three key regions: Putumayo, Caquetá, and Amazonas.
Ana González is a graduate in architecture from Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. She pursued advanced studies in Art and Gender at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and completed a master’s in arts and media, focusing on Photography, Printing, and Publishing, at both the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris in France. Her work is part of significant private and public collections, including the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, the Havremagasinet Länskonsthall Museum in Sweden, the National Museum of Colombia, the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art (MAMBO), the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, the JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, NY, the Bancolombia Art Collection and the Museo de la Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. She currently lives and works in Bogotá.
Ana González, PALMAS DE CERA (WAX PALM TREES), 2024 sublimation printing on roughened tarp 58 1/4 x 58 11/16 inches. © Ana González Courtesy Sean Kelly, New York/Los Angeles.
Ana González, RÍO VAUPÉS (RIVER IN THE AMAZON FOREST), 2024, sublimation printing on roughened tarp, 21 5/8 x 27 9/16 inches. © Ana González Courtesy Sean Kelly, New York/Los Angeles.
Ana González, KYBA (DREAM), 2024, diptych graphite and acrylic on canvas. canvas: 63 x 47 1/4 inches (160 x 120 cm) each. © Ana González Courtesy Sean Kelly, New York/Los Angeles.
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