Cristina Velásquez (b. in Colombia, 1985) is an artist based between Bogotá, Colombia and New York. She received an MFA from Bard College-International Center of Photography in 2017. Velásquez’s work has been exhibited at Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, FR; the International Center of Photography Museum, NY; ArtBo, Colombia; MoMA PS1, NY; the Houston Center for Photography, TX; and the Society for Photographic Education, Boulder, CO. Her monographs Viterbo (published by Kris Graves Projects, 2019) and Montañera (self published, 2017) are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Getty Institute, the Whitney Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the International Center of Photography, Syracuse University, ArtCenter College of Art and Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Arcadia University, Texas State University, University of Iowa, Ryerson University and George Washington University; among others. Recent awards and residencies include Regeneration 4, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, FR (2020); Light Work, Syracuse, NY (2019); the Carol Crow Fellowship (2019); and the Kris Graves Project, Lost II Book Prize (2019). Velásquez is the co-founder of New Poetics Publishing, and is the Art Director at Paisajes Coloniales.

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