Gabriel Sierra (born 1975) is a Colombian

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. His work combines aspects of fine art, design, and architecture. Sierra lives in the capital city of

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Biography

Gabriel Sierra was born in 1975 in

San Juan Nepomuceno, Bolívar San Juan Nepomuceno is a town and municipality located in the Bolívar Department, northern Colombia. It is named after Saint John of Nepomuk. Notable residents Mayerlis Angarita was born here in about 1980. She has won awards for her leadership ...

, Columbia. Sierra received a degree in industrial design in 2000 from the

Jorge Tadeo Lozano University Jorge Tadeo Lozano University is a private university whose main campus is located in Bogotá, Colombia, with satellite campuses in Cartagena, Santa Marta and Chía. Established in 1954, the institution was named after the botanist, scientist a ...

(). Much of Sierra's work explores the architecture in everyday items, and he employs a variety of techniques including installation art, sculpture, and text-based work. Sierra's ''Hang It All'' (2006) is a coatrack made with fruit, that alludes to Charles and Ray Eames’s coatrack design from 1953. His work ''Untitled (111.111.111 x 111.111.111 = 12345678987654321)'', was an installation made for the Hall of Architecture at the

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for the Carnegie International (2013); the hall is full of classical sculpture and casts of architectural columns, he painted the walls purple and integrated purple furniture to the room to emphasized historical and contemporary formalities continuing alongside each other. Sierra has had multiple solo exhibitions including ''Numbers in a Room'' (2015–2016),

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in Queens, New York City, New York; the

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(2015) at the University of Chicago; ''So Far'' (2013) at Peep-Hole in Milan, Italy; and the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Brétigny (2006),

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, France. He has participated in international group exhibitions including the 12th

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(2011); ''The Ungovernables'' (2012) the New Museum Triennial,

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, New York; and the 56th

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(2013),

, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His work is part of the museum collection at the

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(MoMA) in New York City.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sierra, Gabriel 1975 births Living people 21st-century Colombian male artists Jorge Tadeo Lozano University alumni Conceptual artists People from Bolívar Department Contemporary sculptors