Ana is a Colombian visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York, working across experimental photography, printmaking, text, and installation to investigate how repressed aspects of the psyche can be uncovered, deconstructed, and reconfigured. Her practice incorporates participatory frameworks to collectively engage with the complexities of shame, trauma, and other marginalized aspects of the self.
Drawing on psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and feminist theory, she examines how moral codes, power dynamics, and violence replicate across generations, and how capitalism and patriarchy perpetuate oppressive cycles that disproportionately harm women, minorities, and LGBTQI people.
Her work has been exhibited at PhotoVogue (Milan), PHmuseum Days (Italy), Month of Photography (Los Angeles), FOAM (Amsterdam), and Athens Photo Festival, among others, and she is represented by Punctum Gallery in Estonia.
In 2021, she was selected as a Foam Talent, received the Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling award from the Center for Photography at Santa Fe, and earned first prize in the PHmuseum Women Photographers Grant. She has served as a juror for the En Foco Fellowship and Fotógrafas Latam.
Solo Exhibitions
PH Museum Days in Bologna, Italy, 2022
Solo exhibit in Bandy Bandy Gallery, with the sponsorship of Fujifilm and Vice, Colombia, 2019
Group Exhibitions
“Reflective Glass” Fugue Gallery NY, 2026
“Seeing Desire” All Street Gallery NY, 2026
“Acariciar Escamas” Galeria Refresco, Rio de Janeiro, 2025
“Más allá del Dolor” on view at San José Foto, Uruguay, 2025
Punctum Gallery in Tallinn, Estonia, 2024
Athens Photo Festival Greece, 2024
Co-curator, artist, and producer of group show “In Sight / Within” at Picto NY Gallery featuring the works of Djeneba Aduayom, Delphine Diallo, Cheryl Mukherji, and myself NY, 2024
Part of Africa Photo Fair 2023 world collection on view at Mucart from 12 Feb – 26 March in Abidjan, Cote D’ivoire, 2023
International guest at San José Foto in Uruguay, 2023
Part of Circular Solutions: CENTER Award + Grant Recipients 2021 & 2022 at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, North Carolina, 2023
Part of En Foco Fellowship 2023 show, NY, 2023
Part of the 12th edition of the Organ Vida Festival in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia, 2022
Part of the Ph Museum Projections at Photo Vogue Festival, Italy, 2021
Projections exhibit as part of the Month of Photography in LA, 2019
Jury for Contests
Jury for Fotógrafas Latam’s open call: “Ecosentir de la Tierra”
En Foco Fellowship 2024 jury and reviewer
Curatorial work
Co-curator with Camille Cletch, artist and producer of the group show “In Sight / Within” at Picto NY Gallery, featuring the works of Djeneba Aduayom, Delphine Diallo, Cheryl Mukherji, and myself.
Special Programming for “In Sight / Within” :
Artist Talk featuring Cheryl Mukherji, Delphine Diallo, and Ana Vallejo. Discussion led by Fred Ritchin.
Family Legacy, Trauma, and the Feminine Gaze. Featuring Dr. Thiago Arzua and Ana Vallejo. Discussion led by Janna Dyk.
Djeneba Aduayom in conversation with David Campany
Workshops
Session 4 – On Printing Wednesday 20 November 2024 – led by Julien Alamo and myself, part of the series “Essentials of Photography: On Gear, Composition, and Printing” online seminar hosted by Magnum Photos, 2024
Picto New York Presentation at Splashlight Studios organized by the International Photography Awards @iphotoawards, for their 20th anniversary celebration, 2023
UNINSTRUCTING PHOTOGRAPHY : E/RUPTION led by me and Ira Lupu at KASK & Conservatorium / School of Arts Gent, Belgium 2022
Awards and Fellowships
En Foco Fellowship Awardee, 2023
1st prize PhMuseum Women PHotographers Grant, 2021
Foam Talent 2021
2021 Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award by Center Santa Fe, 2021
Currents New Media festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2021
Granted a Fujifilm Scholarship to attend the Bronx Documentary Center Portfolio Reviews , 2020
Lense Culture’s Emerging Talent 2018 award
X-photographer for Fujifilm Colombia
Selected “The Still Life Photographer” by EyeEm
Full scholarship to attend the first documentary photography festival of Native Agency in Quito in 2017
Selected Press, Interviews and Features
- Artwork for New York Times opinion article “Why Are So Many Young Adults Getting Cancer?”
- Cover artwork and featured on The Eyes #13 (AFTER)Care Trauma, Vulnerability, and Accountability curated by Laila Abril showcased at Paris Photo 2022
- Ana Vallejo Reflects On Her Exhibition at PhMuseum Days International Photography Festival
- Today Is Yesterday’s Tomorrow • PhMuseum Days on Photo Vogue
- Interview by Anais Viand for Fish Eye Magazine
Part of the ICP Alumni Talk: Crossing Artistic Practices
- Interview for the Houston Center of Photography’s Sping Issue
- Interview by Gem Fletcher for the British Journal of Photography as part of her mini-series “In Search of Ourselves
- Zooming In: Photography, Performance and the Mythical Episode 1: Intimacy in Times of Social Distancin
- Looking for Love in the Context of a Global Lockdown
- Interview by Gem Fletcher for Elephant Magazine
- Interview for WU Magazine (print magazine)
- Interview for Vist Projects
- Love Addiction, Intimacy and Trauma on Blind Magazine
- Part of Foam Talent Magazine #58
- Seventh edition of Balam Magazine (Fantasía) 2021
- Sixth edition of Balam Magazine (MESTIZX) 2020
- Selected to be part of Ain’t Bad no.15 print issue
- Tearsheets
- Native Agency: Breaking Free from the Neo-Colonial Lens of Photojournalism
- Fotodemic: So Much Love, It’s a Shame
- Photographic Museum
- Lensculture
- Vice Colombia
- British Journal of Photography
- Fotodemic Diaries
- Mongabay
- Minas el Enemigo Oculto: Semana
- Dhodho Magazine
- Neuromantic on Phroom Platform
Collectives
Foto Futuro, Authority Collective, Women Photograph, Diversify
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