Yana Tamayo

Yana Tamayo, born in Brasília in 1978, is a visual artist, curator and researcher.
She is a founding partner of Nave, an autonomous art space where she developed research and educational projects in art, curatorship and execution of exhibitions (2015- 2019).

She holds a PhD in Art from the University of Brasília – UnB (2015), a master’s degree from the same institution (2009) and a specialist degree from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2006).

Since 2000, Tamayo has been working on different fronts in the field of art associating the spaces of art, curatorship and education by thinking different platforms of dialogue with audiences and the public sphere.

She lives and works in Brasilia.

 

 

Yana Tamayo, artist, curatrice, Brasilia,
Early stories (Sentimental cartography)
Installation
49 acrylic plates silkscreened with names of towns located between the borders of the states of Tocantins, Bahia, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Pará, Piauí and Maranhão on volumes of pressed sand
Variable dimensions, 2017
Terra Nullius [Les marges de la joie], 2019 Installation 111 plaques de bois sérigraphiées et une étagère Bois et sérigraphie
Terra Nullius (The Margins of Joy)
Installation
111 silkscreened wooden plates and shelf
Wood and silkscreen
2019
Diaries from the Central Margin (Early Stories)
Installation
Printed photographs and maps
Variable dimensions, 2017
SACO 09 Festival de Arte Contemporáneo, qui s'est déroulé à Antofagasta, au Chili, en novembre 2020.
Concurrences, installation, 720 steel tokens and rings. 100 x 450 x 10 cm, 2020

Project by Colombian artist Daniela Serna selected for SACO 09 - Festival de Arte Contemporáneo, Antofagasta, Chile, co-curation by Yana Tamayo, 2020