Call for Proposals: Faculty Spotlight Exhibitions at the IAS
May 29, 2025UC Santa Cruz faculty across the divisions are invited to submit a proposal for an exhibition of their artwork at the Institute...
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April 10 - August 16, 2026
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The catastrophes of climate collapse are drawing new maps of the world, marked by floods, fires, and a growing abundance of detention centers. Authoritarian regimes privilege profit and corporate power over health and well being. Cruelty proliferates. In Libia Posada’s first solo exhibition in the United States, Everything is Going Right, new and existing artworks from the Colombia-based artist and medical doctor emerge within a vernacular and aesthetic of disease and infection, symptoms and treatments. With maps made of medical gauze, prison uniforms sewn with delicate surgical thread, and crutches blooming with plastic flowers, the exhibition renders bodily the current conditions in which everything seems to be going wrong and moving right.
About the Artist:
Libia Posada is a multidisciplinary artist, trained as a physician and surgeon at the University of Antioquia. Posada’s art is influenced by her medical training, going beyond a fascination with representations of the purely organic or biological to think of the body as a site for the staging of human experience, both individual and collective, and a territory closely connected to the geographical one. In Posada’s artwork, the individual body who passes through clinical spaces—hospitals, asylums—bears the evidence, and the symptoms, of broader social illness: collective, historical, cultural, political.
Libia Posada’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.Her solo exhibitions include Definición del Horizonte (Definition of the Horizon), a review of her last twenty years of work, Museum of Modern Art of Medellín; Pasado Tiempo y Futuro: Arte en Colombia siglo XXI (Past, Present and Future: Art in Colombia in the 21st Century); Medellín una historia colombiana (Medellín: A Colombian Story), Musée Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France; Evidencia Clínica: Retratos (Clinical Evidence: Portraits), National Museum of Colombia (2009) and Museum of Antioquia (2007); as well as her nomination for the Premio Luis Caballero (Luis Caballero Prize, 2011) and Signos Cardinales (Cardinal Signs, 2009).
Group exhibitions include Weather and the Whale, Institute of Arts and Science, UC Santa Cruz; En y entre Geografías (In and Between Geographies), Museum of Modern Art of Medellín; MDE 2015, Museum of Antioquia, Medellín; I Bienal Internacional de Cartagena (I International Biennial of Cartagena, 2014); Face Contact / FOTOESPAÑA, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Madrid (2011) and Beijing (2012); Máquinas (Machines), Oí Futuro Media Center, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2011); Skin, Wellcome Trust, London; MDE 07, Museum of Antioquia, Medellín; Otras Miradas (Other Views), International Itinerant Exhibition, 2004–2006; and the VIII Bienal de La Habana (VIII Havana Biennial), Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba (2003).
Her work is held in public collections including the National Museum of Colombia (Museo Nacional de Colombia), the Banco de la República Art Collection (Colección de Arte del Banco de la República), the Museum of Antioquia (Museo de Antioquia), and the Gilberto Álzate Avendaño Foundation (Fundación Gilberto Álzate Avendaño), as well as in private collections in Houston, Paris, London, Amsterdam, among others.
