Alvaro Herazo

Maestro Álvaro Herazo (born September 15, 1945 in Barranquilla, Colombia, and died March 12, 2010 in Bogotá, Colombia) was a prominent conceptual artist. He studied Architecture at the University of the Atlantic and Art at the Royal College of Printing in London. He was a critic, writer and director of the School of Fine Arts at the Universidad del Atlántico. His work has been exhibited in important museums and artistic events in Caracas, Barranquilla, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Cartagena and Medellín.

Herazo used photography, screen printing and performance to question the concept of territory, creating transformed maps and fantastic geographies.