JEISON
SIERRA
'Chiribiquete' series. Mineral charcoal, gold acrylic on canvas, 110 cm x 170 cm.
Jeison Sierra (Zaragoza, Colombia, 1986), is a visual artist from the Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia. He has had several national solo exhibitions, highlighting 'La Serranía de Chiribiquete' at Sala de Arte de Suramericana in Medellin, Colombia. In 2016 he was part of 'AÚN', the 44th National Artists' Salon in Pereira.
His pictorial production reviews the landscape from an identitarian, autobiographical and oniric look in tension with the socio-political conflicts and violence generated by the gold exploitation.