Jeison Sierra
Bio
With studies in Plastic Arts from the Universidad de Antioquia and the Escuela Débora Arango, Jeison Sierra has consolidated a career focused on landscape and memory. He has had solo exhibitions in spaces such as Galería La Balsa, AH Fine Art and Galería Nueve Ochenta among others, in addition to having participated in group exhibitions such as the 44th Salón Nacional de Artistas. In 2024 he completed an artistic residency at Cergui Art Foundation, which reflects his search for new perspectives on identity and environment. His work is currently in collections such as the Museo de Antioquia and the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín.
Statement
My work emerges from wandering questions about landscapes, aiming to create dialogues with viewers from a subjective perspective. Drawing, painting, and sculpture are fundamental to my creative process and personal explorations. The experience of leaving my hometown has become both the starting point and catalyst for this process, with Zaragoza serving as the contextual reference. This exodus represents a turning point in my life, where the emotional weight of displacement and solitude in an unfamiliar context trigger layers of meaning. Absence manifests with full symbolic impact within these desolate and overwhelming landscapes.
Recognizing ourselves as beings inhabiting a space we have gradually devastated has led me to investigate more deeply into the causes and effects on the landscape, with mining becoming the central theme in my most recent works.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
