about me

Andres Marti ( Bogotá, 1989) I am an artist who uses photography, collage, and painting as means of expression. I studied Industrial Design at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and obtained a Master's degree in Artistic and Documentary Photography at the TAI School. My work has been exhibited at Barcú (Bogotá, 2019) and at “Quir(Z)” at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid (2023). I participated in the Youmein Festival's artist residency in Tangier (2023) and have received awards such as the TAI Foto VI Scholarship in Madrid (2020) and the Versiona Prize from the Thyssen Museum (Madrid, 2023). I have also been part of artist residencies at NongYuan International Art Village in China and PAAL 2025 in Madrid.

Statement:
Through my work, I seek to crystallize the sublime, capturing it in the tension between the real and the illusory. I create trompe l'oeil where the beautiful, melancholic, grotesque, and queer coexist without hierarchy, revealing identities that fluctuate between the intimate and the imagined. My process is a contemporary alchemy, an iteration where the image goes through different states, decomposing and reconfiguring in layers that generate new readings.

I work at the intersection of analog and digital, exploring how processes combine, dissolve, and transform into new forms. I am interested in the tension between materiality and illusion: how photography, collage, and painting can generate images where the digital seems tactile, and the pictorial evokes the immaterial. Each image is a territory under construction, a space where identity unfolds, fragments, and is continuously redefined

PRESS

‘OTREDAD, Andrés Marti’, Revista Exclama, 2021

‘Andrés Marti y su Recurso Infinito: La Melancolía’, Revista Avenida, 2021

‘A Vision of Melancholy’, Fabrik, 2020

‘Andrés Marti: Every Experience Generates Roots ’, Daily Art Magazine, 2020

‘La exposición de arte que quiere mostrar otra cara de los presos’, El Tiempo, 2019

‘Reverdecer’, retratos artísticos de presos de las cárceles La Modelo y El Buen Pastor’, Wradio, 2019

‘Una serie fotográfica pone en el centro a personas privadas de la libertad ’, Revista Semana, 2019

‘Cuarenta menores de Cuarenta ’, Revista Dinero, 2018

‘Otherness: Unguarded, Expressive Portraits by Andres Marti’, scene360, 2017

‘La Otredad de Andrés Marti ’, Raro Magazin , 2017

‘El desdoblamiento melancólico del fotógrafo colombiano Andrés Marti ’, Vice, 2017

‘Otredad: Andrés Marti ’, Fotomeraki, 2016