Juan D. Obando
jobando@elon.edu
Phone: (1) 765 414 9503
www.juanobando.com
Education
2007–2010
MFA, Studio Arts—Electronic and Time-Based Arts, Purdue University,
West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
2005
BA Industrial Design, Minor in Architecture and Urbanism, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Work Experience
2010 - Present
Assistant Professor—Intro To Digital Art, Art & Politics, Web Art. Department of Art and Art History, Elon University, Elon, NC.
2007 - 2010
Instructor of Record—Foundations 2D Art & Design. AD10500, School of Visual and Performing Arts, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
2004–2005
Teaching Assistant—Landscape Architecture. Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Bazuco Corporation Global Domination Tours
2009
America Buys Bazuco. Boots Contemporary Art Space, St. Louis, MO.
2008
Release event for Manual de seducción de Danilo el Romántico. Bogotá, Colombia.
2007
Radio Is Dead, exhibition/performance. Bogotá, Colombia.
Paris—Medellin, exhibition/performance. Medellin, Colombia.
Juan-Ex-Band Live. Eindhoven Design Academy, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Curatorial Projects—Festivals
2010 - Present
LOW LIVES: (www.lowlives.net)
Co-curator. International exhibition of live performance-based worktransmitted via the internet and projected in real time at multiple venues.
2008 - Present
AUDO: Alternative Artistic Practices in Sound. (audospace.org)
Co-organized in collaboration with Esteban Garcia, Shannon McMullen, and Fabian Winkler.
Solo Exhibitions
2011
Narcotrópico. Chiquitica Gallery. Melbourne, Australia.
2010
Our Business Is None of Your Art. 514 Main Street, Lafayette, IN.
2009
Bazuco. Boots Contemporary Art Space, St. Louis, MO.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
Cashing Out. Kala Art Institute. Berkeley, CA.
Re-Locations. Greenhill Center for North Carolina Art. Greensboro, NC
Paper Planes. Center for Visual Artists, Greensboro, NC.
Narco Nations. Duke University. Durham, NC.
Trampolim performance series. Galeria Homero Massena in Vitória, Brazil.
Art Everywhere, Norfolk, VA.
2010
Sign Language. Whole Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
New Media Fest Cologne—Special Selection—2010. Cologne, Germany.
Westwood: Student Exhibition. President’s House, Purdue University,
West Lafayette, IN.
2009
You Are Dead To Me. Eyelevel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. (Curated by Gabriela Alva Cal y Mayor.)
Preambulo Centenario. 13 Salón Nacional de Artistas, Zona centro, Colombia. (Curated by Guillermo Vanegas.)
Low Lives. FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY; Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, FL; and Labotanica, Houston, TX. (Curated by Jorge Rojas.)
Perfect Timing, collaborative performance. Purdue University,
West Lafayette, IN.
Dead Druglords, live performance. A/V Happy Hour. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
2008
Marx Café, temporary social space. Pao Hall, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
Some Stuff: a CAI retrospect. Patty and Rusty Rueff Galleries, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
Voices of America, Internet radio project. Sea and Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. (Curated by Sarah Kanouse.)
Dead Druglords, live performance. Ten years of Temporary Services, Mess Hall, Chicago, IL.
2007
Loutec: Centro de Documentación y actividades paralelas. VK proyectos, Bogotá, Colombia. (Curated by Catalina Lozano and Esteban Garcia.)
Overamused: Site-specific installations. The Jacques Building, West Lafayette, IN. (Curated by Fabian Winkler and Charles Gick.)
Transmisiones. 12 Salón Nacional de Artistas, Zona centro, Colombia. (Curated by Maria Claudia Bernal.)
2006
La Ciudad Gris. Centro Colombo Americano, sede centro, Bogotá, Colombia. (Curated by Fernando Escobar.)
Publications by the Artist
2011
The Half and Half Convention, Elon University
Bubble Bitching, Elon University.
2010
Our Business Is None of Your Art, BZC Prints.
2008
Profesor Bazuco. Profesor Bazuco’s Ultimate Guide to Culture, BZC Prints.
Audo 2008, logo & print.
Interview with the band Fugazi. Self published.
American Flags. Catalog/Zine.
2007
Plush: Art gone soft, banner and illustration. West Lafayette, IN.
Overamused: site-specific installations, exhibition graphic design.
West Lafayette, IN.
Publications of the Artist’s Work
2011
Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, Narco-Nations, Duke University Press.
Julio Cesar Morales, Cashing Out, Kala Art Institute.
2010
Guillermo Vanegas. Preámbulo Centenario, exhibition catalog. Ministerio de Cultura. Bogotá, Colombia. 2010.
Tim Brouk. “Take 5 with Tim.” Journal & Courier, April, 2010.
2009
Jorge Rojas. Low Lives, exhibition catalog. Brooklyn, NY:
Diaspora Vibe Gallery, 2009.
Ministerio de Cultura. Transmisiones. Bogotá, Colombia, 2009.
Jessica Baran. St. Louis Art Capsules. Riverfront Times, July 21, 2009.
Amilcar Ortega. 2009. Miniplug. http://www.miniplug.tv. (Accessed October 7, 2009.)
Katherine Jolliff. 2009. St. Louis Art Map. http://www.saintlouisartmap.org/index.php?s=bazuco. (Accessed October 15, 2009.)
Jason Grey. 2009. Hours of Idleness. http://hoursofidleness.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/the-aftermath-of-bazuco/. (Accessed October 20, 2009.)
Anne-Marie Berger. 2009. Living St. Louis Video—Boots. Living St. Louis. http://livingstlouis.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/living-st-louis-video-boots. (Accessed January 4, 2010.)
2008
Fernando Escobar. “Glocalizados y desrealizados/Glocalized and Unrealized.” ARTECONTEXTO—arte cultura nuevos medios 18 (2008): 46-49.
2007
Fabian Vega. “More toxic than Bazuco.” NOTICIA UNIANDINA 23 (2007).
Maria del Pilar Bolivar. “Publican por su cuenta.” EL TIEMPO, June 9, 2007.
Maria del Pilar Bolivar. “Sellos Independientes.” EL TIEMPO, July 27, 2007.