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Lydia Azout´s

Her artistic formation began in Bogotá under David Manzur, continued with Luis Camnitzer in Lucca, and deepened at the Istituto di Marmo e d’Arte in Pietrasanta.
Lydia Azout´s

Lydia Azout’s exhibition history traces the evolution of her sculptural practice through an ongoing investigation of volume, void, geometry, and spatial presence.

Rooted in Colombia’s pre-Hispanic cultures and sacred landscapes, her work draws on ancestral cosmologies and the relationship between ritual, geometry, and nature.

Working primarily in iron, Azout explores sacred geometry through elemental forms, transforming industrial material into sculptural expressions of organic vitality and metaphysical inquiry. Her work redefines monumentality through a contemplative language of form, space, and spiritual resonance.

Education

Selected Public and Private Collections

Trayectoria

Lydia Azout´s practice unfolds across monumental sculpture, intimate and mid-scale works, installations, and interventions in public space. Across these varied scales and contexts, her work maintains a sustained inquiry into form, space, and the relationship between the human and the natural world. Her sculptures and installations have been exhibited extensively throughout Latin America, the United States, and Europe.

Selected Exhibitions

  • 2026 – “Reflections Now”. Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Miami FL
  • 2023 – “Essence… Earth” Alonso Garces Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • 2023 – “Equilibrio,” La Casita Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • 2021 – “Tierra Vieja - Tierra Nueva (Old Earth - New Earth)” Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Miami, FL.
  • 2019 – “Structure of the Vacuum” Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • 2017 – “Umbrales,” Alonso Garces Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • 2014 – “Going Home” en Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Wynwood Art District, Miami, FL. USA.
  • 2012 – Language of Silence, Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA.
  • 2012 – Out of the Ordinary Geometry, The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA.
  • 2007 – “360 Degrees of Aesthetic Vision,” Itchimbia Cultural Center, Quito, Ecuador.
  • 2004-2005 – “Memory, Works, Traces” Bolivarian Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Marta, Colombia.
  • 2004 – “Offering” Diners Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • 2001 – “A Way of Living.” National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • 1999 – “Resonances” National Center for the Arts, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • 1999 – “Guardians of the Earth,” La Tertulia Museum of Modern Art, Cali, Colombia.
  • 1997 – “Realms of the Sacred,” Alejandro Otero Museum, Caracas, Venezuela.
  • 1993 – “The Seven Suns.” Garcés Velásquez Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • 1988 – “Rhythmic Forces,” La Tertulia Museum of Modern Art, Cali, Colombia.
  • 1987 – “Rhythmic Forces,” Garcés Velásquez Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • 1986 – “Augustinian Forces.” Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • 1984 – “Controlled Spaces,” Garcés Velásquez Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • 1978 – “Fragments.” Luis Angel Arango Library, Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia.

Exposiciones colectivas

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2016 – Colombia in Three Dimensions ­ Sculpture in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá.
  • 2015-2016 – Art on The Green Exhibition, Winter Park, FL.
  • 2013 – ArtBO International Art Fair, Bogotá, Colombia; Beatriz Esguerra Gallery.
  • 2011 – “Great Masters,” 25th Anniversary of the Bolivarian Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, Santa Marta, Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia.
  • 2010 – “SmART”, Freedom Tower, Miami Dade College, Miami, FL.
  • 2004 – “Salón del Fuego,” artwork: “Homage to Brasília,” Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation. Bogotá, Colombia.
  • 2004 – “Desde lo Tridimensional” Instalación: “Memoría Colectiva”, Galería Club El Nogal, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • 2003 – “Columns,” a permanent exhibition in the San Juan de Aragón Forest, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • 2001 – “Art, Memory, and Society,” National Archives of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • 2001 Exposición “Cielo y Tierra”. XVII Festival del Centro Histórico de Ciudad de México Museo José Luis Cuevas. D.F. México.
  • 1999 – Children of the Andes”. Christie’s South Kensington Twentieth Century Colombian Art.
  • 1999 – “Resonances,” National Center for the Arts, interdisciplinary event.
  • 1999 – “Invisible Cities in Mexico,” an interdisciplinary event, Potlach Theater, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • 1995 – “Augustinian Forces II, National Gallery, Exhibition: “Contemporary Art of the Non Aligned Countries”. Yakarta, Indonesia. In Conjuntion with the seminar: “ Unity in Diversity”.
  • 1995 – “Merkabah,” FES Foundation, Cultural Center, Cali, Colombia.
  • 1993 – “ABC: Contemporary Art from Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia.” Sidney Mishkin Gallery, New York, United States.
  • 1992 – “Colombia: Contemporary Images,” The Queen Museum of Art, New York, United States.
  • 1990 – 33rd National Artists' Exhibition – 50th Anniversary Celebration, Colcultura, Bogotá, Colombia.
  • 1989 – 3rd Havana Biennial. Wilfredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba.
  • 1986 – 2nd Havana Biennial. Wilfredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba.
  • 1985 – “100 Years of Colombian Art.” Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá. Imperial Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. São Paulo Cultural Center, Brazil. Italian-Latin American Center, Rome.
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