Ana De Orbegoso
Bio
De Orbegoso lives and works in New York. She studied photography and film in the International Center of Photography, School of Visual Arts, and Pratt Institute. Her work has been exhibited individually in Lima, Cusco, Trujillo, New York, Washington, Connecticut, Tenerife and Kentucky. She has participated in more than 40 group shows in Peru and abroad. De Orbegoso is the author of the itinerary project Vírgenes Urbanas, which is the most itinerant exhibition on the Peruvian contemporary scene. In 2008 the artist received a fellowship in photography from the New York Foundations for the Arts, and a grant from the National Association of Latino Arts & Culture, both in New York. She was awarded first prize on the Primer Salón Nacional de Fotografía from the Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (Lima). Her work is part of permanent collections, such as: Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts of Houston; U. Lehigh in Pennsylvania; MALI - Museo de Arte de Lima; Instituto de Arte Fotográfico de Lima; ICPNA - Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano de Lima; Violy McCausland Collection; Joaquim Paiva Colection, among others.
Statement
De Orbegoso is a visual artist with her basis on photography. Her work is of a very personal character; she recreates –by means of a photographic image- parallel universes, so that the spectator is faced before an ample number of themes, whether of an emotional or a social nature. Her most recent work focuses on the theme of de-colonization. With this purpose in mind, De Orbegoso is inspired by Peruvian pre-Hispanic and colonial art pieces, making them her own and even re-inventing them, too, in this way, reflect up-to-date realities and ideals. In a wider sense, her work reviews themes such as the role of women, the mixture of cultures and urban migration.
