Edison Vaca

Exchange grant residency Ceroinspiración,Quito and Hangar (2012)

Edison Vaca Tamayo, Quito   (Ecuador) 1977

Period of Residence: April 2012

Edison Vaca is graduated in fine arts with a postgraduated in Art Studies.

Has participated in individual and collective  exhibits inside and out of Ecuador:

X Encuentro de Arte Urbano al zur – ich (Quito – 2012), XV Bienal de Venecia de Bogotá (Bogotá – 2010), Artefacto del Tiempo – X Bienal Internacional de Cuenca – (Cuenca – 2009), Realismos Radicales (Quito – 2008), La Plástica Ecuatoriana en México (México D.F. – 2006), entre otras. Primer Lugar XV Bienal de Venecia de Bogotá (Bogotá – 2010), Primer premio VII Salón Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo Fundación El Comercio. (Quito 2001).

Exchange between the contemporary art centers Ceroinspiración (Quito, Ecuador) and Hangar (Barcelona). ‘Archivo Móvil’ is an initiative of the Cultural team Ceroinspiración in order to explore the memory of La Floresta sector in Quito from a direct contact with the neighborhood. The project’s main objective, in its phase 1 during the month of March, are to share and disseminate the results of this research with the inhabitants of the sector. Afterwards, in April, the project will move to Barcelona, Encants market,  in order to test its methodology in the neighborhood of Poblenou, and to articulate both urban realities from its possible points of attachment. The two phases of the project are made next to the Ecuadorian artists Chuky Vaca and Adrián Balseca.

chukyvaca(at)hotmail.com