Delcy Morelos
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Delcy Morelos (born 1967 in Tierralta, Cordoba, Colombia) is a Colombian artist known for painting, sculpture, and large-scale site-specific installations made with soil, clay, natural fibers, and other organic materials.
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| Born | 1967 (age 58–59) Tierralta, Córdoba Department, Colombia |
Early life and education
Career
Morelos began as a painter, though over the last decade her practice has expanded beyond the picture plane into immersive environments rooted in ancestral Andean cosmovision and Minimal Art aesthetics, with a sustained focus on the relationship between the body, earth, and materiality. Having grown up in the Indigenous territory of the Emberá people, she has also been described as having spent years studying the culture, philosophies, and language of the Amazonian Witoto people. Her work often treats the earth as a living entity rather than a territory to be owned, and recent major institutional presentations have included El abrazo at Dia Chelsea in New York in 2023, Interwoven at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis in 2024, and Profundis at Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville in 2024.[2][3]
She is represented by Marian Goodman Gallery and exhibited in a dual exhibition with Ettore Spalletti in New York City.[4]