Arlan Londoño
Birthdate: 1962 Deathdate: 2013
Birthplace: Colombia
Based location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Biography
Arlan Londoño (born 1962, Colombia - died 2013, Toronto)
Arlan Londoño was a Colombian curator and visual artist based in Toronto. He completed a master’s degree in visual studies specializing in curatorial studies at the University of Toronto. In 2004 he co-founded e-fagia organization with the time media-based artist Julieta María, which is dedicated to fostering Canadian and Latin American time-media projects in Canada. While in e-fagia, Arlan organized over 15 projects including video screenings, exhibitions, film festivals, and discussion panels.
Arlan Londoño's studio work was time-based media. His research was informed by art and technology to reflect on the effects of mass media consumption, and his artwork focused on public space interventions and site-specific installations. Arlan’s work was part of numerous collective exhibitions, including Where Do We Go? Amongst Flower and Song (2022), curated by Día de los Muertos collective, Peter Mckendrick Wychwood Gallery, Toronto, Other Electricities (2012–2014), curated by Cheyanne Turions, Art Gallery of Windsor, and the 11th Havana Biennial (2013) in Habana, Cuba.
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Vinyl paint on a wall
In memoriam Arlan Londoño, Fuse Magazine, Decolonial Aesthetics, 2014, Google Images 2023
Solo exhibitions
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Collective exhibitions
Arlan Londoño collective exhibition Where Do We Go? Amongst Flower and Song, curated by Día de los Muertos collective, Peter Mckendrick Wychwood Gallery, Toronto, 2022
Arlan Londoño catalogue collective exhibition Other Electricities, curated by Cheyanne Turions, Art Gallery of Windsor, 2013-2014
Arlan Londoño collective exhibition Other Electricities: Works from the AGW Collection, curated by Cheyanne Turions, Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, 2013
Arlan Londoño exhibition statement 11th Havana Biennial, 2013
Arlan Londoño collective screening No Media Collective: DystoRpia Project, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York, 2013
Arlan Londoño programming collective exhibition Error origen no encontrado”/“Error_origin not found, curated by Jorge Lozano, Colombia, 2012
Arlan Londoño press release Bienal Internacional Mérida, Mexico, 2009
Arlan Londoño collective exhibition Idiomática, curated by Tamara Toledo, Latin American Canadian Art Project, 2005
Interviews
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Presentations
Arlan Londoño event overview Digital Event 11’ Subversive Technologies, Toronto Free Gallery, 2011
Published work by Arlan Londoño
Arlan Londoño essay with co-writer Guillermina Buzio, "Integración y resistenciaUna mirada a las organizaciones y movimientos artísticos latinos en Canadá", 2009
Arlan Londoño article by Arte por excelencias, 2009
Published work about Arlan Londoño
Arlan Londoño essay by Juana Awad, 2022
Arlan Londoño essay by Miguel Rojas Sotelo, 2014
Arlan Londoño essay by Raúl Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet, 2007
Press release
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List of Grants, Awards and Projects
Arlan Londoño press release collective exhibition screening Dystopia: On Art and Technology, curated by e-fagia, Outpost Artists Resources, New York, 2012
Arlan Londoño press release collective exhibition Video Screening, curated by e-fagia, 2011
Arlan Londoño curator collective exhibition Pan-Americas, Art Museum, University of Toronto, 2010