RECENT WORKS


FORESTS AND CRAWLERS

SLADE DEGREE SHOW

TERRA FRIENDZ

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CERAMICS

PAINTINGS


OLDER WORKS


2016-2019

COSTUMING

SCULPTURE


Pre 2016

PAINTING / DRAWING


    ABOUT



    María Camila Cepeda  (1996) is a Colombian artist based in the UK. After a traditional education in painting and drawing in Bogotá, she moved to the UK to study a BA in Fine Art Sculpture in Leeds Arts University and an MA in Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Fine Art.

    With a keen interest on the way fiction portrays culture, Maria’s latest interest lies on animals and bestiaries, the way we have related and portrayed them, and what that also says about ourselves. In portraying her own animals, creatures and scenes she looks at merging representation and fictions from the Americas and Europe to create a cohesion of her lived experience in a  globalised world.

    Recent exhibitions include “Strange Fairy tales” in Kunming, China (2021), “ The next Big Thing showreel” in Bury Art Museum (2022), and  “London Grads Now” at Saatchi gallery (2022). María was the Almacantar Award winner for the Slade School of Fine art in 2021 and one of three commissioned emerging artists for Leeds Arts University 2022 curatorial programme.








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    EDUCATION


    2021    Dean’s list- Distinction. MA Fine Art Media
                Slade School of Fine Art, University College London


    2020    First Class BA (Hons) Fine Art. Sculpture strand.
                Leeds Arts University


    EXHIBITIONS/APPEARANCES/COMISSIONS/AWARDS


    2022


           Comissioned Artist for Leeds Arts University APP programme


         Stronger together showcase. Leeds Arts University, Leeds

         End of Almacantar residency show. Bow Arts, Art in the docks 

         Summer Juice (online), Artistellar gallery

         The next Thing Moving Image Award reel. Bury Art Museum
     
         London Grads Now. Saatchi Gallery


         
           


    2021


    Almacantar Studio Award. Recipient for the Slade School of Fine art 2021-2022

    Shaping Spaces Residency. Insert Studios with We Belong Here CIC. 

    ASK: Our Diverse World, organized by Tsingshua International Conference on Art and Design Education. October [online group show]

    ATOPIA. Insert Studios. Leeds. September 10-23

    Strange Fairy Tales. Kunming, China. August 14- October 10

    Open City Documentary Festival. Slade 150 screening of recent notable alumni. September 11.

    (IN)Visible Cities. UK Mexican Arts Society. Curated by Olga Tarasova August 13 - August 22

    Summer show (Graduating class of 21'). Slade school of Fine Art. London. July 5-17

    Terra Friendz. The new Artist (solo show) [online] Curated by Alexandra McKay. April 21-30

    The colour and poetry Simposium reading. [online] 21 March

    2020

    Platform 1 BloomsburyBloomsbury theatre. London. Performance night. 6-7 February 

    Words to be looked at l Oxford library. Postponed

    2019

    Sunny bank mills studio residency/ Runner up Jury’s award. Sunny Bank Mills Gallery

    Shortlisted for the Kenneth Armitage Young sculptor prize with special commendation. 

    Shortlisted for Grizedale residency.Royal society of sculptors

    We belong here. The Chapel. Leeds

    Pick ‘n’ mix. Pinapple Black Gallery. Middlesborough. August 16-22

    Blinked. Free Range.The Old Truman Brewery.London. July 5-8

    Blinked. Degree show. Leeds Arts University. June 7-14

    Ones to Watch. Sunny Bank Mills. Leeds. March 15- May 11

    The Socio-Parasitology Manifesto exhibition. Nunnery Gallery. London. January 10-19

    2018

    In Real Life Residency. Artcore Gallery. Derby.

    In Real Life. Artcore Gallery|Derby. Tom V. der Meulen & Maria Cepeda. October 18- November 1

    The Essential. Millepiani | Rome 

    Routes Roots pop-up. Merrion Centre | Leeds

    TWO. Wharf Chambers | Leeds

    Just as Nature Intended. Leeds Arts University


    2017

    Y Not?. Wharf Chambers. Leeds

    2016

    Fragmented Cities + identities Jorge Jurado Gallery | Bogotá

    International Art and Architecture Festival. Venice Art House & Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi. Fragmented identities. Venice

    Fabula academy degree show. Fábula gallery. Bogotá


    2015

    Fábula academy interim show. Fábula Gallery. Bogotá


    PRESS AND TALKS>>

    22 May 2020
    Online Artist talk/ Artcore Gallery

    13 December 2019
    Artist talk l Leeds Arts University

    27 September 2018
    Artist Talk: Helen Carr in conversation with Maria  Cepeda and Tom Van der Meulen. Artcore Gallery |Derby.

    PRESS AND MEDIA

    https://www.trebuchet-magazine.com/the-power-of-invisible-community/

    http://www.itsliquid.com/interview-maria-camila-cepeda.html

    http://artcoregallery.org.uk/artistresidency/irl-residency/

    http://artcoregallery.org.uk/meet-the-artist-maria-cepeda/

    https://sunnybankmills.co.uk/blog/ones-watch-artists-residence/


    RECENT EMPLOYMENT



    Digital fabrication/Studio technician. CCW colleges.
    October 2022- ongoing

    Slade short course technical assistant. Slade I UCL
    March 2021- September 2022

    Student fellow. PT Changemakers project. UCL
    Project from March to May 2021 to develop training resources

    Connected learning intern for MA programme in Art and Design education. UCL
    December 2020-April 2021

    Content development assistant. Institute of Education. Culture, Communication and Media.
    September 2020-December 2020