Uramba, 2024

Juan arreaza  

I have studied in The Florence Academy of Art, at the US branch in New Jersey, and Florence – Italy,  Graduated from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogota, Colombia, with certification in Children's Illustrations Techniques  from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University. With publications in the Etnollano Foundation and the International Cooperation Presidential Agency Colombia, and the Colombian Reconciliation Program book “Mapiripan"also in Julio Carrizosa Book (Colombia Compleja) “Complex Colombia" in illustrations in the book "Entre Cantos y Llantos" (Between songs and Cries) from the Sikuani Culture, and in the campaign for military penal justice"Tree of Values" and “Footprints of Change" among others. Organizer and participant of the Biblotrazo Project at four of the most important Public Bibliaries in Bogotá and Bogota Drawing Project, sculpting artist of the monument in memory of "the 19 traders" in Bucaramanga, Santander. On recent years have worked side by side with Mads Niessen (No. 1 World Press Photographer of the year on the Sangre Blanca project, in which both materialized thoughts on the “Lost War on Cocaine" giving different shows in Europe and soon in Colombia, and other countries regarding the grants won with the collaboration made.

Also having a collaboration with the Piaroa indigenous People, from Matavén, Colombia, in which from their cosmology and and tales we build a piece that now is part of the Patricia Cisneros Latin American Art Collection.

Also, one of the latest projects in progress is the participation on “100 Years of Solitude" series from Netflix, one of the most ambicious projects for the Colombian culture, in which the drawings for the costume designs where meticolously well researched and built.