Vanishing Point

Mauricio Arango is an artist from Colombia living in New York. His art practice alludes to the current dynamics of media, temporality, memory, and forgetting. His work is an attempt to examine dominant narratives and assess what is lost within them: i.e., the disregarding –and reshaping- of world cartographies, the exclusion of minorities from national subjectivities, and the elimination of peripheries from the making of history. His projects have been presented nationally and internationally, most recently at Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Sidney Opera House, Sidney, Australia; and soon at the International Society for Electronic Art at the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California. He has received grants and commissions from Forecast Public Artworks (Saint Paul, MN), The Minnesota State Arts Board, the Kulturfonds der Stadt Salzburg (Salzburg, Austria), and from Low-Fi, The Net Art Locator (London, UK) among others. Recently he has been selected to participate in the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art.