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Laura Criollo-Carrillo is a Colombian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal. She holds a bachelor in visual arts from the Javeriana University in Bogotá and a individualized master's degree in arts, creation, and technologies from the University of Montreal.
In her artistic practice, Laura explores the ephemeral and eternal nature of memory and existence. Her work focuses on capturing and representing phenomena imperceptible to human senses, aiming to evoke a poetic reflection on the possibilities and limitations of human perception. She is also interested in how, through these phenomena, we form a sense of belonging to the tangible world.
Her artistic exploration encompasses both digital and tangible aspects of image and sound, manifested through installations, videos, and photographs. Her works have been exhibited in museums, galleries, and art fairs in Canada, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, France, and Poland.
Laura is the co-founder and art director of Valaquia Studio.
EDUCATION |||
Master of Science. Individualized studies in arts, creation and technologies 
University of Montreal, Canada. 2021

BFA in Visual Arts
Javeriana University. Bogota, Colombia. 2011

WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING __

Video Mapping: Videographic Integration into 3D Space,
Ada X, Montreal, 2018

Scientific Narratives as Intercessors of Creation,
RAIQ - Regroupement des arts interdisciplinaires du Québec, Montreal, 2018

Art Direction and Fashion Photography Production,
LABLOOM - School of Photography and Visual Arts, Bogotá, Colombia, 2013 

EXHIBITIONS ' ' '
C'est ici que poussent les fleurs, Maison de la culture de Rivière-des-Prairies, Montréal, 2025
Cartographies sensibles, Maison de la culture Claude-Léveillée, Montreal, 2023
Les villes superposées et Portraits de lumière II, Maison des arts et de la culture de Brompton, 2023
Grande rencontre des arts médiatiques en Gaspésie, Percé, 2023
Aluminium, Maison Louis Fréchette, Lévis, Canada, 2023
Artists in residency, Château Éphémère, Carrières-sous-Poissy, France, 2022
Mythic Landscape, Perte de Signal. Montreal, Canada, 2021
Mythic Landscape, University of Montreal’s Exhibition Center. Canada, 2020
Les formes d’ondes, University of Montreal’s Exhibition Center. Canada, 2020
Ultrasons Festival, Claude-Champagne Hall. Montreal, Canada, 2020
In Void, Gham & Dafe Gallery. Montreal, Canada, 2019
Re-encuentros, Casa Tres Patios. Medellín, Colombia, 2014
Sudamérica Electrónica Vol.07, Emilio Caraffa Museum. Cordoba, Argentina, 2012
Odeón Contemporary Art Fair, Odeón Foundation. Bogota, Colombia, 2011
Proyecto Tesis 2011, Museum of Contemporary Art of Bogota, 2011
Some Books Are To Be Tasted, The Warehouse Art Gallery. Bogota, Colombia, 2011
Corporalidades, Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation. Bogota, Colombia, 2011
Some Books Are To Be Tasted, Camelot & FIM Gallery. Kratowise, Poland, 2010

FILMOGRAPHY <<<

Ko pyhare, para siempre, video poem, 2022.
Directed by Fiorella Boucher and Laura Criollo-Carrillo
SCREENINGS - - -

Vtape x Vidéographe Exchange, V-Tape, Toronto, 2025
Vtape x Vidéographe Exchange, Dazibao, Montréal, 2024
Tranås at the Fringe - International Arts Festival, Sweden, 2024
27e Festival Acadien de la poésie, Caraquet, New-Brunswick, 2023
Festival Ultracinema XII, Tepoztlan, Mexico, 2023
Festival Présence Autochtone - 33e édition, Montréal, Canada, 2023
Rencontres multilingues en poésie de La poésie partout - 2ème édition. Montreal, Canada, 2022 

DISTRIBUTION ¨¨¨

Ko pyhare, para siempre - distributed by Vidéographe (Montreal) and VTape (Toronto)
 
GRANTS, MENTIONS >>>
Research and exploration grant,
PRIM Center, Montreal, 2026
Research-creation grant 
Canada Council for the Arts, 2025
Arts abroad grant - Artistic Residencies
Canada Council for the Arts, 2025
Research-creation grant, with Torrents collectif
Canada Council for the Arts, 2024 
Research-creation art residencies grant 
Ada X, Montreal, Canada, 2023  
Arts abroad grant - Artistic Residencies
Canada Council for the Arts, 2022
Honorable mention for the video-poem Ko pyhare, para siempre 
Rendez-vous vidéo-poésie. Festival de la Poésie de Montréal, 2022
Art and Sciences grant – Planetarium of Bogotá, with Reactante collectif
Instituto Distrital de las Artes – IDARTES. Bogota, Colombia, 2015
National Artistic Residences grant
Ministry of Culture of Colombia, 2014
Honourable mention for the Bachelor's thesis Cuerpo expandido
Javeriana University of Colombia, 2011

ART RESIDENCIES - - -
Research-creation art residency 
Arte Sumapaz, Colombia,
October 2025
Research-creation art residency 
Ada X, Montreal, Canada,
January - April 2024

Art residency "Arts Numériques, Art Sonore, & Nouvelles Écritures"
Château Éphémère, Carrières-sous-Poissy, France
May - June2022

Research - creation laboratory
Perte de signal - Montreal, Canada
June 2021

Art residency - Re-encuentros
Casa Tres Patios. Medellin, Colombia
October - November 2014

CURATORIAL PROJECTS |||

Dato por Liebre
Foundation Gilberto Alzate Avendaño. Bogota, Colombia, 2016

Espectrum Visible, Cúmulos estelares
Planétarium de Bogota, Colombia, 2015 

CONFERENCES AND DISCUSSIONS _ _ _
Espejismos/Mirage / with collective Torrents
Exhibition and discussion with the poet and writer Catherine Poulin
Ada X, Montreal
April 2024
COMPOSITE 33. Presentation of the project Les villes superposées
Organized by Eastern Bloc in collaboration with Chaire de recherche ALN and Labo NT2 et PixMob, Montreal
November 2022

Mythic landscape. Discussion with the artist Gabrielle Harnois-Blouin
Perte de signal, Montreal
June 2021

Discussion with the art curator Tony Evanko during the artistic residence Re-encuentros (expandido)
Casa tres patios, Colombia
October 2014

Conference during the exhibition Sudamérica Électronica
National University of Cordoba, Argentina
May 2012

CONTACT   ///
lauracriollo.artist [at] gmail . com
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